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KYPRIANOS M194

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

Berlin P. 5527
BKU 1 23

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

Magical (formulary ?)
Contents:

Original use:

1. Ro: Remains of a receipt or list in Greek.

Re-use:

2. Vo ll. 1-12: Invocation of the Baktiotha to give life.
See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Greek
Script(s):

Coptic
Dialect:

Fayumic
Language/dialect notes:

See related texts for further notes; Erman (1904: p. 22); TM (1/10/2018). Original use in Greek.
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 501 – 600
Date notes:

Erman (1904: p. 22); 301-500 (Stegemann 1936: p. 14); 401-600 (Crum in Kropp 1931: p. x); 451-600 (Choat & Gardner 2013: p. 115); 401-600 (TM 1/10/2018)
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published. No image. New edition desirable.
Image:

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 16.6 Width: 20.5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Maximum heights and widths, range 13.6–16.6 x 18.2–20.5 (EL from autopsy 20/11/2019); 20.5 x 16.17 cm (Choat & Gardner 2013: p. 115); 16.8 x 20.4 cm (Beltz 1985: p. 61)
Folding pattern:

Very difficult to discern (EL from autopsy 20/11/2019)
State of preservation:

Complete (re-use), slight damage along edges.
Verso (original use(?)) waxed
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):

2 columns recto (original use). 1 column verso (re-use), 12 lines.
Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Berlin, Staatliche Museen
Collection History:

Acquired in 1877 (Erman 1904: p. 22)
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 40
Collection website: http://berlpap.smb.museum/

Notes/Discussion:

For original use, see Stern (1885: p. 42); Erman (1904: p. 22); Gardner & Choat (2013: p. 115)

Bibiliography
Editions:

Stern, Ludwig. “Faijumische Papyri im ägyptischen Museum zu Berlin.” Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 23 (1885): 42–44.

Erman, Adolf. Aegyptische Urkunden aus dem Koeniglichen Museen zu Berlin: Koptische Urkunden. Vol. 1. Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1904, p. 22, no. 23.

Beltz, Walter. “Die koptischen Zauberpapyri der Papyrus-Sammlung der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin.” Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 29 (1983): p. 61, no. I 534.

★ Choat, Malcolm, and Iain Gardner. A Coptic handbook of ritual power (p. Macq. I 1). Turnhout: Brepols, 2013, p. 115-117.
Translations:

Kropp, Angelicus. Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte. Übersetzungen und Anmerkungen. Vol. 2. Bruxelles: Édition de la Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1931, p. 160-161, no. 44.

Pernigotti, Sergio. “La magia copta: I testi.” In Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt, edited by Hildegard Temporini and Wolfgang Haase, II.18. 5, Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1995, p. 3709, no. 11.

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

Stegemann, Viktor. Koptische Paläographie : 25 Tafeln zur Veranschaulichung der Schreibstile koptischer Schriftdenkmäler auf Papyrus, Pergament und Papier für die Zeit der III.-XIV. Jahrhumderts : mit einem Versuch einer Stilgeschichte der koptischen Schrift. Heidelberg: Im Selbstverlag von F. Bilabel, 1936, p. 14.

Kropp, Angelicus. Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte. Textpublikation. Vol. 1. Bruxelles: Édition de la Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1931, p. x.

Trismegistos ID:

102254

 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”

74

 AKZ: question mark icon Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte

2.44

 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:

EL (17/10/2018; 20/11/2019); MPS (30/7/2019); KD (31/8/2019); KD (11/11/2019); EL (21/8/2020); MPS (12/1/2022)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M194," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m194. Accessed on 10/12/2025

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