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KYPRIANOS M129

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

PCM 1 8
PCM I 8
P. Mich. Inv. 4932f

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. 1-20, Vo ll. 1-10: Love spell invoking oil.
See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Script(s):

Coptic
Dialect:

Sahidic
Language/dialect notes:

See related texts for further notes.
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 501 – 700
Date notes:

Dosoo/Preininger (2023: 81) suggest a 6th-7th century dating for this scribe based on palaeographical parallels (cf. 2023: p. 93 in which they mistakenly give 5th-6th century date). 5th-6th century dating in TM (12/11/2018) citing Richter (2015: p. 99).
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. KYP A4
Archive name: Schmidt Coptic Magical Dossier
State of edition:

Published.
Image: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2349/4932fv.tif

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Parchment
Dimensions (cm): Height: 14.4 Width: 13.2 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Collection Website (12/11/2018)
Folding pattern:

5 horizontal, 1 vertical fold.
State of preservation:

Complete, although most of the bottom panel is now lost (Collection Website 12/11/2018).
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 each, recto (hair) and verso (flesh); 20 lines recto, 10 lines verso.
Hand:

Schmidt Scribe

Findspot:

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Ann Arbor, Michigan University, Library
Collection History:

Acquired by Bell and Westermann from Nahman in 1926/1927 (Collection Website 12/11/2018).
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 12
Collection website: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2349/4932fr.tif

Notes/Discussion:

Recto (Collection Website): http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2349/4932r.tif
Verso (Collection Website): http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2349/4932v.tif

Worrell (1935: p. 185) believes there is an erased underlying text of the verso, of which approximately 6 lines remain at the bottom, but from the photographs this seems in fact to be the text from the recto, of which about 7 lines are visible through the thin parchment.

Bibiliography
Editions:

★ 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. 93-97, no. 8.

Worrell, William H. “Coptic Magical and Medical Texts. (Continued).” Orientalia, NOVA SERIES 4 (1935): 184-187, no. 5.
Translations:

Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 175-176, no. 82.

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. 3713-3714, no. 18.

Polotsky, Hans Jakob. “Zwei koptische Liebeszauber”, Orientalia N.S. 6 (1937): 127-131.
General:

Frankfurter, David. “The Laments of Horus in Coptic. Myth, Folklore, and Syncretism in Late Antique Egypt.” In Antike Mythen: Medien, Transformationen und Konstruktionen, edited by Ueli Dill and Christine Walde. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2009, p. 230, n.7.

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 Belohoubková, Jirí Honzl and Vera Nováková. Oxford: Archaeopress Publishing, 2019, p. 42-54.

Richter, Tonio S. “Markedness and Unmarkedness in Coptic Magical Writing.” In Écrire la magie dans l’Antiquité – Scrivere la magia nell’Antichità: Proceedings of the International Workshop (Liège, October 13–15, 2011), Papyrologica Leodiensia 5, edited by Magali de Haro Sanchez, 85–108, plates VII-XIII. Liège: Presses universitaires de Liège, 2015, p. 99.

Trismegistos ID:

99569

 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

82
Bélanger Sarrazin: question mark icon Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes”

165

 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 (19/11/2018); KD (10/12/2018); EL (8/9/2020); KD (23/7/2021); SVS (09/08/2022); MPS (12/10/2022); MPS (14/2/2023); KD (20/11/2023); KD (17/1/2024)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M129," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m129. Accessed on 05/11/2025

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