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KYPRIANOS M1941

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

P. CtYBR inv. 1796

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

Magical (formulary)

Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-14: Curse with figurae magicae
2. Vo ll. 1-9: Curse

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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)

Script(s):

Coptic

Dialect:
Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 501 – 700
Date notes:

Petersen (1964: p. 48)

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

Unpublished. Edition forthcoming from Michael Zellmann-Rohrer.

Image: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/digcoll/2759572

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 23.9 Width: 22.5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Collection Website (3/2/2020). Petersen (1964: p. 45) gives 30 x 20.5, but from the photo the dimensions given on the Collection Website seem correct.

Folding pattern:

8 (?) horizontal creases, 1 vertical crease

State of preservation:

Complete, damage and some loss along creases

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

2

Pages/Columns (notes):

1 column each, recto and verso. Recto 14 lines, Verso 9 lines.

Hand:

Recto and Verso hands different?

Findspot:

Egypt

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

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library

Collection History:

Acquired in 1964.

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 242
Collection website: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/digcoll/2759464

Notes/Discussion:

http://papyri.info/apis/yale.apis.0017964200

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/digcoll/2759464
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/digcoll/2759572

findit.library.yale.edu/iiif/mirador_viewer?oid=15518094&page=1#page/1/mode/1up
findit.library.yale.edu/iiif/mirador_viewer?oid=15518096&page=1#page/1/mode/1up

Bibiliography
Editions:

Petersen, Theodore C. A Collection of Papyri, New York 1964, p. 45, no. 58.


Translations:
General:

http://papyri.info/apis/yale.apis.0017964100


Trismegistos ID:

874290

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 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 (21/1/2020); KD (3/2/2020); MPS (25/2/2020); EL (11/8/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M1941," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m1941. Accessed on 01/05/2025

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