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KYPRIANOS M1648

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

O. Crum 521
O. Cair. Monuments 8156

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. 1-18: Hymn on the Nativity.
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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. 309.
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Ostracon (limestone)
Material:

Ostracon (limestone)
Dimensions (cm): Height: 16 Width: Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Mihálykó 2019: p. 309, gives the height.
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

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

1
Pages/Columns (notes):

1 column recto, 18 lines.
Hand:

Findspot:

Western Thebes, Egypt (?)

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

Western Thebes, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 1341)
Present Location:

Cairo. Egyptian Museum
Collection History:

No acquisition information.
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 73
Collection website: http://www.coptic-cairo.com/index.html

Notes/Discussion:

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, part I, p. 4 and part II: Texts, p. 82, no. 521.

Leclercq, Henri. “Ostraca.” In Dictionnaire d’Archéologie chrétienne et de Liturgie 13,1, edited by Ferdinand Cabrol and Henri LeClercq. Paris: Librairie Letouzey & Ané, 1936, col. 84-85 (edition and translation).
Translations:
General:

Mihálykó, Ágnes T. The Christian Liturgical Papyri: An Introduction. Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum 114. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019, p. 309, no. 85 descr. (=catalogue only).

Crum, Walter E. Catalogue Générale des Antiquités Égyptiennes du Musée du Caire. Nos. 8001-8741. Coptic Monuments (GCS). Osnabrück: Otto Zeller Verlag, 1902, no. 8156.

Trismegistos ID:

65312

 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

751

 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 (30/9/2022); KD (21/12/2022)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M1648," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m1648. Accessed on 26/04/2024

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