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KYPRIANOS M127

Sigla: question mark icon Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.

PCM 1 20
PCM I 20
P. Donadoni

Category: question mark icon Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical.

Magical (formulary)
Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-16: Love spell in the form of Horus-Isis historiola-based charm.
2. Vo l. 1: Name “Sofia” or word “wisdom” (?).
See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Script(s):

Coptic
Dialect:

Sahidic with Fayumic features
Language/dialect notes:

See related texts for further notes, cf. Bélanger-Sarrazin (2017: p. 379), who lists as Sahidic.
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 701 – 900
Date notes:

Dosoo/Preininger (2023: p. 255) date to the eighth to ninth century based on similar hands and formats found in Fayumic legal documents from this date range. Donadoni proposes a date of ca. 620 CE based on palaeography (1965-1966: p. 286); cf. 301-700 (TM 12/11/2018).
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Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 14 Width: 16 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Donadoni (1965-66: p. 285); Dosoo/Preininger (2023) 254.
Folding pattern:

Some evidence of horizontal creases (perhaps from rolling ?) discernible in photograph.
State of preservation:

Complete.
Pages/Columns: question mark icon Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.

2
Pages/Columns (notes):

1 column recto (↓), 16 lines, 1 line verso (→) in a second hand.
Hand:

Findspot:

Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 332)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 332)
Present Location:

Rome, Private collection Donadoni
Collection History:

Gift to Sergio Donadoni from Carla Burri before 1965 (Donadoni 195-1966: p. 285).
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 1683
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Perhaps adapted as an applied text by the addition of a personal name on the verso.

Bibiliography
Editions:

Donadoni, Sergio. “Un incantesimo amatorio copto.” Atti della Reale Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, scienze morali, storiche e filologiche 100 (1965–1966): 285–292.

★ Dosoo, Korshi, and Markéta Preininger. Papyri Copticae Magicae. Coptic Magical Texts, Volume 1: Formularies (PCM I 1), Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete – Beihefte 48. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023, p. 254-257, no. 20.
Translations:

Pernigotti, Sergio. “La magia copta: I testi.” In Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt, edited by Hildegard Temporini and Wolfgang Haase, II.18.5, 3685–3730. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1995, p. 3714-3715, no. 20.

van der Vliet, Jacques. “Christian Spells and Manuals from Egypt”. In Guide to the Study of Ancient Magic, edited by David Frankfurter. Leiden : Brill, 2019, p. 344.
General:

Blumell, Lincoln and Korshi Dosoo. “Horus, Isis, and the Dark-Eyed Beauty: A Series of Magical Ostraca in the Brigham Young University Collection.” Archiv für Papyrusforschung 64 (2018): 199-259.

Hevesi, Krisztina. “A Few Remarks on the Persistence of Native Egyptian historiolae in Coptic Magical Texts”. In Current Research in Egyptology 2018: Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Symposium, Czech Institute of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, 25-28 June 2018, edited by Marie Peterková Hlouchová, Dana Bělohoubková, Jiří Honzl and Věra Nováková. Oxford: Archaeopress Publishing, 2019, p. 42-54.

Martín Hernández, Raquel, and Sofía Torallas Tovar. “‘You Who Impose Sleep Upon Abimelech for Seventy-Two Years’: An Egyptian Spell against Insomnia.” In Contesti magici/Contextos mágicos, edited by Marina Piramonte and Francisco Marco Simón. Rome: De Luca Editori d’Arte, p. 309-312.

Trismegistos ID:

102259

 PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum GEMF: question mark icon Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) ACM: question mark icon Ancient Christian Magic
Bélanger Sarrazin: question mark icon Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes”

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 AKZ: question mark icon Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte CBd: question mark icon Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database Mert.-Pack: question mark icon Mertens-Pack online database
Van H: question mark icon van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires Bruyn-Dijkstra: question mark icon de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" TheDefix: question mark icon Thesaurus Defixionum To Zodion:
Edit History:

MPS (12/11/2018); EL (21/6/2019); MPS (9/7/2019); KD (12/9/2019); EL (8/9/2020); team (26/10/2020); MPS (17/1/2023); KD (20/11/2023); KD (17/1/2024)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M127," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m127. Accessed on 21/11/2025

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