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KYPRIANOS M214

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

Berlin P. 11919

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

Medical (recipe)
Contents:

Original Use:

1. Unclear

Re-Use (palimpsest):

2. Medical recipe for an unknown disease, including list of ingredients
See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Script(s):

Coptic
Dialect:

Sahidic
Language/dialect notes:

Bélanger Sarrazin 2017: p. 381.
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 501 – 700
Date notes:

TM (24/9/2018)
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published. New edition desirable.
Image:

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Parchment
Dimensions (cm): Height: 9.5 Width: 9 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Beltz 1984: p. 100
Folding pattern:

Folded in antiquity (TM 12/10/2018)
State of preservation:

Incomplete; fragmentary. Palimpsest.
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):
Hand:

Findspot:

Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Egypt

(TM places ID: 816)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein), Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 816)
Present Location:

Berlin, Staatliche Museen
Collection History:

Excavated in Hermopolis by the DOG in 1902 (Beltz 1984: p.100)
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:

Not magical according to Kropp (1930, vol. 3: 176).

Palimpsest, first text no longer legible.

Bibiliography
Editions:

Beltz, Walter. “Die koptischen Zauberpergamente der Papyrus-Sammlung der Staatlichen Museeun zu Berlin.” Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 30 (1984): 100-101 (TM bibliography pages erroneous).
Translations:
General:

Kropp, Angelicus. Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte. Einleitung in Koptische Zaubertexte. Vol. 3. Bruxelles: Édition de la Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1930, p. 176.

Trismegistos ID:

107302

 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:

MPS 24/9/2018; EL (12/10/17); MPS (19/8/2019); KD (23/6/2022)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M214," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m214. Accessed on 11/12/2025

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