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KYPRIANOS M205

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

Berlin P. 5531
P. Berol. 5531

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

Magical (unclear)
Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-7: Formula asking for protection from Jesus and the angels against various supernatural beings.
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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Greek
Script(s):

Coptic
Greek
Dialect:

Sahidic
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:

Likey 9th-10th century; cf. the hands of P. Lond. Copt. I 514 (TM 99548), dating to 881-909 CE. TM (17/10/2018) dates to 6th-7th century.
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:

Parchment
Dimensions (cm): Height: 5.1 Width: 8.3 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

EL from autopsy (20/11/2019); 4.8 x 8.2 cm (Beltz 1984: p. 84).
Folding pattern:

EL (autopsy 20/11/2019) identified 1 (?) vertical and 2 horizontal creases; examination of photo suggests perhaps 4 vertical, 3 horizontal creases.
State of preservation:

Fragmentary, fragment of the upper left-hand part of a sheet.
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, 7 surviving 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 from the antiquities market in Cairo between 1877 and 1879.
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:

Morphemes dotted with supralinear points. Ink traces seem to indicate that this is a palimpsest.

Bibiliography
Editions:

Beltz, Walter. “Die koptischen Zauberpergamente der Papyrus-Sammlung der Staatlichen Museeun zu Berlin.” Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 30 (1984): p. 84-85, no. III 12.
Translations:
General:

Van der Vliet, Jacques. “Varia magica coptica.” Aegyptus 71.1/2 (1991): 232–233.

Trismegistos ID:

107291

 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:

EL (17/10/2018; 20/11/2019); MPS (19/8/2019); KD (12/11/2019); EL (21/8/2020); MPS (22/3/2021)

How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP M205," 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-m205. Accessed on 24/08/2026
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