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KYPRIANOS M166

Sigla:

PCM 1 26
PCM I 26
P. Heid. Inv. Kopt. 686

Category:

Magical (formulary)

Contents:

Original Use (Lectionary):

1. Bifolio 1 flesh (pp. 2 + 19): col. 1 ll. 1–7: Philippians 4.9.
2. Bifolio 1 flesh (pp. 2 + 19): col. 1 ll. 8–36, col. 2 ll. 1–10: 1 Corinthians 1.18–24.
3. Bifolio 1 flesh (pp. 2 + 19): col. 2 ll. 11–36: 1 Timothy 6.11–13.
4. Bifolio 1, hair (pp. 1 + 20): col. 1 ll. 1–29: 1 Timothy 6.13–16 .
5. Bifolio 1, hair (pp. 1 + 20): col. 1 ll. 29–36, col. 2 ll. 1–36: Hebrews 9.2–7.
6. p. 9, flesh col. 1 ll. 1–18, col. 2 ll. 1–2: 2 Corinthians 10.4–9.
7. Bifolio 2, flesh (pp. 11 + 18): col. 1 ll. 1–4: Hebrews 13.6.
8. Bifolio 2, flesh (pp. 11 + 18): col. 1 ll. 5–36, col. 2 ll. 1–36: Philippians 3.6–14?

Re-use (palimpsest):

9. p. 2 l. 1 – p. 15 l. 27, (1-249): Endoxon of the Archangel Michael
10. p. 15, ll. 27-29 (250-251): Instructions for using the formula for a person afflicted by a demon (exorcism).
11. p. 15, ll. 29-31 (252): Instructions for a person who is in prison (to free prisoner).
12. p. 15, ll. 32-33 (253): Instructions for a favour.
13. p. 16, ll. 1-2 (254): Instructions for someone who is sick (healing).
14. p. 16, ll. 3-5 (255): Instructions for reconciling man and wife (reconciliation).
15. p. 16, ll. 6-8 (257): Instructions for someone who has been bound by magic so that he is unable to have sex with his wife (healing, virility).
16. p. 16, ll. 9-15,12 (257): Instructions for someone who has been given a cup (potion)
17. p. 16, ll. 13-14 (258): Instructions for someone who is in pain (healing).
18. p. 16, ll. 15-17 (259): Instructions for a person who is going on a mountain to avoid attacks from robbers or animals (protection).
19. p. 16, ll. 18-20 (260): Instructions to ensure fidelity of a man’s wife (curse/fidelity spell).
20. p. 16, ll. 21-23 (261): Instructions for a woman with a violent husband (reconciliation).
21. p. 16, ll. 24-25 (262): Instructions for a man who is “hastening towards ruin” to “avoid him being recognized” (protection?)
22. p. 16, ll. 26-27 (263): Instructions for a man who cannot sleep (healing).
23. p. 16, ll. 28-30 (264): Instructions for approaching an authority (favour before superior).
24. p. 16, ll. 31-32 (265): Instructions for causing a village to be inhabited (gathering spell).
25. p. 16, ll. 33-36 (266): Instructions for removing water from a workplace (?) (curse).
26. p. 17, ll. 1-3 (267): To cause someone to become unresponsive like a dead person (curse).
27. p. 17, ll. 3-6 (268): To reconcile someone at odds with you (reconciliation).
28. p. 17, ll. 7-9 (269): To stop a man chasing after a woman (binding, fidelity spell).
29. p. 17, ll. 10-12 (270): To remove sorcery from a herd of cattle (protection from magic).
30. p. 17, ll. 13-16 (271): To prevent more of a woman’s children from dying (healing/protection).
31. p. 17, ll. 17-23 (272); p. 16, ll. 24-29 (273): Ritual for protection.
32. p. 17, ll. 30-35 (272-274): Drawing of Michael accompanied by two Powers.

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Language(s):	Egyptian (Coptic)
Script(s):	Coptic
Dialect:	Sahidic with Fayumic influence
Language/dialect notes:	Sahidic with considerable influence from a Middle Egyptian dialect, likely that of the Fayum; see Dosoo/Preininger 2023: p. 261-262. Bélanger Sarrazin (2017: p. 392) describes as Fayumic.
Date: Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE.	951 – 1000
Date notes:	Written in same hand as P. Heid. Inv. Kopt. 682 (M291), dated by its colophon to 967 CE (see Dosoo/Preininger 2023: ). TM (25/9/2018); 901-1000 (Mößner and Nauerth 2015: p. 312).
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.	KYP A8
Archive name:	Heidelberg Library
State of edition:	Published.
Image:	https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/p_kopt_686/0001/thumbs

Form:	Codex
Material:	Parchment

Dimensions (cm):

Height: 21.1

Width: 13.45

Depth:

Dimensions (notes):	Folios measure 21.1 x 26.9cm (Mößner and Nauerth 2015: p. 312; cf. Dosoo/Preininger 2023: 324).
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:	Complete.
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.	20
Pages/Columns (notes):	20 page codex, made from 3 bifolios and four sheets. Written pages 2-17.
Hand:	Deacon Iohannes

Findspot:	Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 332)
Place of purchase:	Cairo, Egypt (TM places ID: 2740)
Writingspot:	Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 332)
Present Location:	Heidelberg, Institut für Papyrologie
Collection History:	Purchased from Maurice Nahman by Carl Schmidt in Cairo in October 1933. Taken home by Friedrich Bilabel, and kept by his family following his death. Initial efforts to recover it by Karl Preisendanz were unsuccessful. In 1998 & 2008 the manuscript was offered to the University of Heidelberg for sale by Bilabel’s grandson. The legal claims of the University of Heidelberg on the manuscript were judged to be too difficult to enforce, and so the manuscript was bought back by the University (Dosoo/Preininger 2023: 325; Gardner and Johnston 2019: p. 32; Untermann 2011: p. 5).
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript.	156
Collection website:	https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/p_kopt_686

Notes/Discussion:

Numbering in brackets of the recipes indicates the numbering in Kropp 1966, which does not correspond to line numbers.

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. 324-361, no. 26. Kropp, Angelicus. Der Lobpreis des Erzengels Michael (vormals P. Heidelberg Inv. Nr. 1686). Brussels : Fondation égyptologique reine Elisabeth, 1966.
Translations:	Gardner, Iain. “An Archive of Coptic Handbooks and Exemplars for the Making of Amulets and the Enacting of Ritual Power from the Tenth Century (P. Heid. Inv. Kopt. 680–683 and 685–686).” In Drawing Spirit: The Role of Images and Design in the Magical Practice of Late Antiquity, edited by Jay Johnston and Iain Gardner. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023, 123-134. Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 326-341, no. 135.
General:	Bélanger Sarrazin, Roxanne. “Les appels au ‘Jésus guérisseur’ dans les formules iatromagiques coptes”, in Études coptes XVI. Dix-huitième journée d’études (Bruxelles, 22-24 juin 2017) (Cahiers de la bibiothèque copte 23), edited by Anne Boud’hors, Esther Garel, Catherine Louis and Naïm Vanthieghem. Paris: Éditions de Boccard, 2020, p. 188-190. Bilabel, Friedrich, and Adolf Grohmann. Griechische, koptische und arabische Texte zur Religion und religiösen Literatur in Ägyptens Spätzeit. Heidelberg: Verlag der Universitätsbibliothek, 1934, p. 392. Camplani, Alberto. “‘Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani’. Pluralità dei linguiaggi religiosi e loro rielaborazione rituale in alcune preghiere magihche copte,” Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 76.1 (2010): p. 146. Frankfurter, David. “Heavenly Liturgy and Its Materialization in Early Coptic Magical Texts.” In Above, Below, Before, and After. Studies on Judaism and Christianity in Dialogue with Martha Himmelfarb, edited by Ra‘anan Boustan, David Frankfurter, and Annette Yoshiko Reed. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2023, 316-320. Gardner, Iain. “The Heidelberg Magical Archive: A Discussion of its Origins, Context and Purpose.” In Drawing Spirit: The Role of Images and Design in the Magical Practice of Late Antiquity, edited by Jay Johnston and Iain Gardner. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023, 45-71. Gardner, Iain, and Jay Johnston. “‘I, Deacon Iohannes, Servant Of Michael’: A New Look at P. Heid. Inv. Kopt. 682 and a Possible Context for the Heidelberg Magical Archive.” Journal of Coptic Studies 21 (2019): p. 51-53. Johnston, Jay. “Image Play: On Angels and Insects.” In Drawing Spirit: The Role of Images and Design in the Magical Practice of Late Antiquity, edited by Jay Johnston and Iain Gardner. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023, 185-207. Johnston, Jay, and Gardner, Iain. “Relations of Image, Text and Design Elements in Selected Amulets and Spells of the Heidelberg Papyri Collection.” In Bild und Schrift auf ‘magischen’ Artefakten, edited by edited by Sarah Kiyanrad, Christoffer Theis and Laura Willer, De Gruyter, 2018, 139-148. Mößner, Tamara, and Claudia Nauerth. “Koptische Text und ihre Bilder.” In Ägyptische Magie und ihre Umwelt, edited by Andrea Jördens, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2015, p. 312; p. 348-350. Quecke, Hans. “Erhebet euch, Kinder des Lichtes.” Le Museon 76 (1963): p. 247, n. 3. Tsakos, Alexandros. “Miscellanea Epigraphica Nubica V: The Names of the Four Creatures of the Apocalypse in Christian Nubia”, Collectanea Christiana Orientalia 11 (2014): p. 259-261. Untermann, Matthias (editor). Ägyptische Magie im Wandel der Zeiten: eine Ausstellung des Instituts für Papyrologie in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Institut für Ägyptologie der Universität Heidelberg. Heidelberg: Universitätsmuseum Heidelberg, 2011, p. 42-43. van der Vliet, Jacques. “Tradition and Innovation: Writing Magic in Christian Egypt,” in Rituals in Early Christianity: New Perspectives on Tradition and Transformation, edited by Nienke M. Vos and Albert C. Geljon. Leiden: Brill, 2020, p. 273-274.

Trismegistos ID:

100022

PAThs:

PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae		SM: Supplementum Magicum	GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming)	ACM: Ancient Christian Magic	135
Bélanger Sarrazin: Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes”	137	AKZ: Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte	CBd: Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database	Mert.-Pack: Mertens-Pack online database
Van H: van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires		Bruyn-Dijkstra: de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)"	TheDefix: Thesaurus Defixionum	To Zodion:

Edit History:

EL (25/9/2018); KD (29/3/2019); MPS (3/7/2019); KD (13/9/2019); MPS (7/9/2020); KD (17/11/2020); KD (16/3/2021); KD (25/5/2021); KD (28/5/2021); MPS (1/11/2022); KD (20/12/2022); KD (1/2/2023); KD (20/11/2023); KD (11/12/2023); KD (18/1/2024)

How to cite:

Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M166," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m166. Accessed on 25/04/2025

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