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KYPRIANOS M238

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Vienna, Nationalbibliothek K 01614 Pap

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. x+1-8: Unclear text with three anthropomorphic figures
2. Vo ll. x+1-11: Fragment of an unclear text (perhaps unrelated)

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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. 301 – 400
Date notes:

TM (5/12/2018). ‘Documentary hand of the 4th century (?)’ (Stegemann 1934: p. 15)

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

Published.

Image: http://data.onb.ac.at/rep/1021FCFB

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 12.5 Width: 11.5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Stegemann (1934: p. 15); 4.5 x 11 cm (Till 1935: p. 202) (Collection Website 5/12/2018)

Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Fragmentary, fragment, ‘very frayed’, ‘almost illegible’ (Stegemann 1934: p. 15)

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 (↓). 8 surviving lines recto, 11 surviving lines verso. Verso text (perhaps unrelated) written at 90 degrees to recto text.

Hand:

Documentary hand’ (Stegemann 1934: p. 15)

Findspot:

Egypt

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

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Vienna, Nationalbibliothek

Collection History:

No acquisition information.

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 357
Collection website: http://data.onb.ac.at/rec/RZ00004146

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

★ Stegemann, Viktor. Die koptischen Zaubertexte der Sammlung Papyrus Erzherzog Rainer in Wien. Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 1933-34 no. 1. Heidelberg: Carl Winters Universitätsbuchhandlung, 1934, p. 15, no. 4.

Till, Walter. “Zu den Wiener koptischen Zaubertexten.” Orientalia 4 (1935): 202-203, no. 4.


Translations:
General:

Buschhausen, Helmut, Ulrike Horak, and Hermann Harrauer. Der Lebenskreis der Kopten. Dokumente, Textilien, Funde, Ausgrabungen. Katalog zur Ausstellung im Prunksaal der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek. MPER 25. Wien: Hollinek, 1995, p. 58, no. 72.

Hasitzka, Monika. “Kat.-Nr. 21: Amulett.” In Orakelsprüche, Magie und Horoskope. Wie Ägypten in die Zukunft sah, edited by Angelika Zdiarsky, Wien: Phoibos Verlag, 2015, p. 100.

Horak, Ulrike. Illuminierte Papyri, Pergamente und Papiere. Pegasus Oriens. Vol. 1. Wien: Holzhausen, 1992, p. 251.


Trismegistos ID:

91399

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 5/12/2018; EL (3/1/2019); KD (18/11/2019); EL (18/8/2020); MPS (22/3/2021)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M238," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m238. Accessed on 15/05/2024

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