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KYPRIANOS M167

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

P. Macq. I 1
P. Macq. inv. 375

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

Magical (formulary)
Contents:

1. p. 1 l. 1 – p. 11 l. 14: Invocation of the Baktiotha and other deities
2. p. 11 ll. 15-26 – p. 12 ll. 17-18: Instructions for creation of the amulet (protection), offering, water, wine, and bread.
3. p. 12 ll. 1-16: Amulet to be created
4. p. 12 ll. 19-20: For someone who is possessed (exorcism)
5. p. 12 ll. 21-22: For any sickness (healing)
6. p. 13 ll. 1-7: For someone who is annoying you (curse)
7. p. 13 ll. 8-11: For someone who is possessed (exorcism)
8. p. 13 ll. 11-18: Spell for good business
9. p. 13 l. 19: Love spell
10. p. 13 ll. 20-21: Binding procedure (curse)
11. p. 13 ll. 21-23: Binding procedure (curse)
12. p. 13 ll. 24-25: Binding a ship (curse)
13. p. 13 ll. 26-27: To make a woman conceive (healing)
14. p. 14 ll. 1-3: Submission procedure (curse)
15. p. 14 ll. 4-6: Purification (healing, exorcism?)
16. p. 14 ll. 7-9: Favour procedure
17. p. 14 ll. 10-13: To make someone sick (curse)
18. p. 14 ll. 14-17: Subjection procedure (curse)
19. p. 14 ll. 18-19: For a man with magic on him (anti-magic)
20. p. 14 ll. 20-21: For all magic (anti-magic)
21. p. 14 ll. 22-24: For buried magic (anti-magic)
22. p. 15 ll. 1-2: For one who is swollen (healing)
23. p. 15 ll. 3-7: Black or yellow jaundice (healing)
24. p. 15 ll. 8-14: To make a dovecote inhabited (gathering)
25. p. 15 l. 14: For skin disease (healing)
26. p. 15 ll. 15-16: For any sickness (healing)
27. p. 15 ll. 17-19: Wart (healing)
28. p. 15 ll. 20-21: An oracle (divination, dream oracle)
29. p. 15 ll. 22-24: A spleen (healing)
30. p. 16 ll. 1-4: To stop any blood (healing)
31. p. 16 ll. 5-11: Phylactery for any sickness and for those who are possessed (healing, protection, exorcism)
32. Additional slip ll. 1-3: For a demon (exorcism)
See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Greek
Script(s):

Coptic
Dialect:

Sahidic (non-standard)
Language/dialect notes:

See related texts for further notes; Sahidic (Bélanger Sarrazin 2017: p. 399).
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 601 – 800
Date notes:

Choat and Gardner (2013: p. 2-3); 701-800 (TM 10/10/2018); 401-500 (Bélanger Sarrazin 2017: p. 399).
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Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Codex
Material:

Parchment
Dimensions (cm): Height: 13 Width: 11.3 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Height varies from 12.5-13cm, width from 10.7-11.3 (Choat & Gardner 2013: p. 2.)
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Fine quality parchments, complete and well preserved.
Pages/Columns: question mark icon Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.

20
Pages/Columns (notes):

20 pages, of which 16 are written. 10 leaves, 20 pages, 1 column, 24-29 lines per page. Single quire of 4 bifolia, with an extra bifolium before the last leaf. Last three pages blank, as well as the front page (Choat, Gardner 2013: p. 1).
Hand:

The scribes achieves bilinearity, with tails of letters rarely going below the bottom of other letters. Script is comparable to no. 295, no. 24 and no. 353 in this database (see Choat, Gardner 2013: p. 2).

Findspot:

Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 816)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 816)
Present Location:

Sydney, Macquarie University
Collection History:

Acquired in Vienna in 1981, from antiquities dealer Michael Fackelmann, along with P. Macq. inv. 374 (Choat & Gardner 2013: p. 1).
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 210
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Choat, Malcolm, and Iain Gardner. A Coptic Handbook of Ritual Power (p. Macq. I 1). Turnhout: Brepols, 2013.
Translations:
General:

Burns, Dylan M. “Magical, Coptic, Christian: The Great Angel Eleleth and the ‘Four Luminaries’ in Egyptian Literature of the First Millenium CE”. In The Nag Hammadi Codices and Late Antique Egypt, edited by Hugo Lundhaug and Lance Jenott. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018, p. 154-155.

Dosoo, Korshi. “Baktiotha: The Origin of a Magical Name in P.Macq. I 1.” In Coptic Society, Literature and Religion from Late Antiquity to Modern Times. Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Coptic Studies, Rome, September 17th-22nd, 2012, and Plenary Reports of the Ninth International Congress of Coptic Studies, Cairo, September 15th-19th, 2008, edited by Paola Buzi, Alberto Camplani and Federico Contardi. Leuven – Paris – Bristol: Peeters, 2016, 1237–1244.

Gardner, Iain. “The Sethian Context to a Coptic Handbook of Ritual Power (= P. Macquarie I).” Proceedings of the 27th International Congress of Papyrology, edited by Tomasz Derda, Adam Łajtar and Jakub Urbanik. Warsaw: University of Warsaw, 2016, 755-766.

Piwowarczyk, Przemysław. “Sethians and Their Texts in Christian Egypt in the 4th and 5th Centuries.” Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 86 (2020): p. 109-110.

Mosner, Tamara and Claudia Nauerth. “Koptische Text und ihre Bilder.” In Ägyptische Magie und ihre Umwelt, edited by Andrea Jördens, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2015, p. 312, 348-350.

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. 271-272, 274-275.

Trismegistos ID:

113926

 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 (10/10/2018); EL (21/6/2019); KD (14/10/2019); MPS (7/9/2020); KD (13/10/2020); EL (3/8/2021); MPS (12/1/2022)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M167," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m167. Accessed on 29/04/2025

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