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KYPRIANOS M1720

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

P.Berol. 13918
Berlin, Staatliche Museen P. 13918

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

Liturgical (prayer)
Magical (applied) (?)

Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-15: Prayer of thanksgiving after communion and final inclination prayer.

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Language(s):

Greek

Script(s):

Geek

Dialect:
Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 401 – 500
Date notes:

de Bruyn & Dijkstra (2011: p. 204);
451-550 CE: Col. website (2/9/2021).

Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.

Image: https://berlpap.smb.museum/Original/P_13918_R_3_001.jpg

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 20 Width: 29.5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

de Bruyn & Dijkstra (2011: p. 205).

Folding pattern:

4 (?) horizontal creases, 9 (?) vertical creases.

State of preservation:

Complete.

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 (↓), 15 lines.

Hand:

Findspot:

Hermopolis, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 2720)
Place of purchase:

Cairo, Egypt

(TM places ID: 2740)
Writingspot:

Hermopolis, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 2720)
Present Location:

Berlin, Staatliche Museen

Collection History:

Purchased in Cairo for the Museum of Berlin prior to 1927 (Lietzmann 1927: p. 213.)

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 40
Collection website: https://berlpap.smb.museum/03942/

Notes/Discussion:

Parallel with Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians 20.2b, contains a deacon’s call and indication of change of speaker; perhaps reused as amulet (Ágnes T. Mihálykó).

Bibiliography
Editions:

Brakmann, Heinzgerd. “Der Berliner Papyrus 13918 und das Griechische Euchologion-Fragment von Der el-Bala’izah.” Ostkirchliche Studien 36 (1987): 31-38.

Gambler, Klaus. “Teile einer Anaphora auf einem ägyptischen Papyrus-Amulett des 5. Jahrhunderts.” Ostkirchliche Studien 34 (1985): 178-182.

Josep, Ríus-Camps. “Un papir litúrgic inspirat en Ignasi d’Antioquia?” In: Miscellània Papirologica Ramon Roca-Puig en el seu Vuitantè Aniversari, edited by Sebastià Janeras Vilaró. Barcelona: Fundació Salvador Vives Casajuna, 1987, p. 285-292.

Lietzmann, Hans. “Ein liturgischer Papyrus der Berliner Museums.” In: Festgabe für Adolf Jülicher zum 70. Geburtstag 26. Januar 1927, edited by Rudolf Bultmann. Tübingen: Mohr Verlag, 1927, p. 213-228.


Translations:
General:

Mihálykó, Ágnes T. The Christian Liturgical Papyri: An Introduction. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019, p. 84, 107-108, 111, 165-166, 181, 197-198, 242-243, 325.

Treu, Kurt. “Christliche Papyri XIV.” Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 35 (1989): 109, no. 881.


Trismegistos ID:

64693

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

881

Bruyn-Dijkstra: question mark icon de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)"

143

TheDefix: question mark icon Thesaurus Defixionum To Zodion:
Edit History:

Imported from checklist of Ágnes T. Mihálykó by KD (11/11/2019); ST (2/9/2021); KD (24/11/2021)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M1720," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m1720. Accessed on 30/04/2025

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