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KYPRIANOS M1644

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

O. Crum 517
Brit. Mus. E. 105
Brit. Mus. EA 32896
LDAB 6573

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

Liturgical (hymns)

Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-6: Hymn on the Nativity.
2. Vo ll. 1-5: Reference to the third canticle (Daniel 3.54).

See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

Greek

Script(s):

Greek

Dialect:
Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 601 – 800
Date notes:

Mihálykó 2019: p. 308.

Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. KYP A89
Archive name: Apa Phoibammon Liturgical Ostraca Dossier
State of edition:

Published. No translation.

Image: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/263433001

Form:

Ostracon (limestone)

Material:

Ostracon (limestone)

Dimensions (cm): Height: 8.2 Width: 11.5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Collection website (30/09/2022)

Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Complete, writing is sometimes faded.

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 and verso. 6 lines recto, 5 verso.

Hand:

Findspot:

Monastery of Apa Phoibammon, Thebes, Egypt

(TM places ID: 1341)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Monastery of Apa Phoibammon, Thebes, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 1341)
Present Location:

London, The British Museum

Collection History:

Previously held by London, Egypt Exploration Society EEF 116 (previous). Donated to the British Museum in 1900 (collection website 21/12/2022).

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 193
Collection website: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA32896

Notes/Discussion:

Same hand as O. Crum 518 (KYP M1645; TM 65326).

Bibiliography
Editions:

Crum, Walter E. Coptic Ostraca from the Collections of the Egypt Exploration Fund, the Cairo Museum and others. London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1902, no. 517, see part I, p. 3 and part II: Texts, p. 82.


Translations:
General:

Mihálykó, Ágnes T. The Christian Liturgical Papyri: An Introduction. Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum 114. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019, p. 308, no. 81 descr. (=catalogue only).


Trismegistos ID:

65327

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” 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

747

Bruyn-Dijkstra: question mark icon de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" TheDefix: question mark icon Thesaurus Defixionum To Zodion:
Edit History:

Imported from checklist of Ágnes T. Mihálykó by KD (11/11/2019); MPS (25/3/2021); JS (12/11/2021); JS (16/12/2021); JS (29/9/22); JS (30/9/2022); KD (21/12/2022)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M1644," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m1644. Accessed on 18/04/2024

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