Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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P. Mich. Inv. 593a |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (formulary) |
| Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-9: Recipe for healing amulet using name of Jesus for tertian fever |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | Sahidic with Akhmimic/Lycopolitan features |
| Language/dialect notes: | Dialectal features suggest the influence of a southern Egyptian dialect resembling Akhmimic (KD 23/7/2026). |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
301 – 500 |
| Date notes: | Grons 2025: p. 158; TM (24/7/2026); “the date may be rather early” (Online Catalogue 4/9/2020) |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
KYP A10 |
| Archive name: | Coptic Wizard’s Hoard |
| State of edition: | Published. |
| Image: | http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2602/593ar.tif |
| Form: | Codex |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 18.4 | Width: 22.3 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Grons 2025: p. 158. |
| Folding pattern: | 2 vertical creases, 3 or more horizontal creases. |
| State of preservation: | Fragmentary. |
| Pages/Columns:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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1 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column recto, 18 lines. |
| Hand: |
| Findspot: | Lykopolis (Assiut), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 1271) |
| Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
| Writingspot: | Lykopolis (Assiut), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 1271) |
| Present Location: | Ann Arbor, Michigan University, Library |
| Collection History: | Brought from Egypt to the British Museum in Feburary 1921 by Wallis Budge and soon after acquired by the University of Michigan. (Worrell 1930: p. 239). Numbers 593-603 were part of a single find, and 594-603 seem to have been rolled together (Acquisition reports online 26/1/2021). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
12 |
| Collection website: | http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2602/593av.tif |
| Notes/Discussion: | 593a Recto (Col. Image): http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2602/593av.tif |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | ★ Grons, Anne. Medizinische Rezepttexte in koptischer Sprache (C.Pharm.Copt.). Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete – Beiheft 56. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025, p. 158-163, no 3, plate 3. |
| Translations: | |
| General: | Zellmann-Rohrer, Michael. “Headaches, Fevers, and Psalms: Notes on a Coptic Amulet from Oxyrhynchus”, Journal of Coptic Studies 26 (2024), p. 230. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 108813 |
PAThs: |
| PGM:
Papyri Gracae Magicae
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SM:
Supplementum Magicum
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GEMF:
Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming)
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ACM:
Ancient Christian Magic
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| Bélanger Sarrazin:
Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” |
166 |
AKZ:
Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte |
CBd:
Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database |
Mert.-Pack:
Mertens-Pack online database |
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| 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: | MPS (24/9/2018); EL (19/11/2018); KD (30/9/2019); MPS (4/9/2020); MPS (22/3/2021); KD (21/7/2026); RBS (24/7/2026) |
How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP M191," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, Korshi Dosoo, Markéta Preininger, & Roxanne Bélanger Sarrazin (principal editors), www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m191. Accessed on 24/08/2026For the "editor names", see the abbreviated names in the field "Edit History", and to resolve the abbreviations, see the help page.