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KYPRIANOS M191

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

P. Mich. Inv. 593a
P. Mich. Inv. 593α

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

Magical (formulary)
Medical (recipes)

Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-9: Recipe for healing amulet using name of Jesus for tertian fever
2. Ro ll. 10-14: Healing prescription for unclear purpose.
3. Ro ll. 15-18: Recipe for man with diseased spleen.

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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)

Script(s):

Coptic

Dialect:

Sahidic with Akhmimic/Lycopolitan features

Language/dialect notes:

Sub-Achmimic influence based on the shape of certain letters (Online Catalogue 4/9/2020).

Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 401 – 600
Date notes:

TM (24/9/2018); “the date may be rather early” (Online Catalogue 4/9/2020)

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

Published.

Image: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2602/593ar.tif

Form:

Codex

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 18.3 Width: 22.7 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

24.4 x 18 cm Online Catalogue (4/9/2020). 7 1/4 X 9 inches (Worrell 1935: p. 192).

Folding pattern:

2 vertical creases, 3 or more horizontal creases.

State of preservation:

Fragmentary.

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:

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: question mark icon 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
593a Verso (Col. Image): http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2602/593ar.tif

Bibiliography
Editions:

Worrell, William H. “Coptic Magical and Medical Texts. (Continued)” Orientalia, NOVA SERIES n°4 (1935): 184–194, p. 192–194, no 7.


Translations:
General:

Acquisition reports online 26/1/2021: https://apps.lib.umich.edu/files/libraries/papyrology/acq-reports/Inventory%20of%20Coptic%2C%20Sept.%201921.pdf


Trismegistos ID:

108813

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 (24/9/2018); EL (19/11/2018); KD (30/9/2019); MPS (4/9/2020); MPS (22/3/2021)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M191," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m191. Accessed on 30/04/2025

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