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KYPRIANOS M241

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

PCM 1 2
PCM I 2
Vienna, Nationalbibliothek K 05520 Pap

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. 1-5: Healing text against uterine bleeding

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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)

Script(s):

Coptic

Dialect:

Fayumic

Language/dialect notes:

See Dosoo/Preininger 2023: p. 54-55; Stegemann 1934: p. 16.

Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 401 – 600
Date notes:

Fifth to sixth century (Dosoo/Preininger 2023: 54). Stegemann tentatively suggests fourth century (1934: p. 16); TM (15/10/2018); Till dates it to the 7th century (Till 1935: p. 203, no. 8).

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Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.

Image: http://digital.onb.ac.at/RepViewer/viewer.faces?doc=DOD_%2BZ117666108&order=1&view=SINGLE

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 4.5 Width: 23.5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Collection Website (15/10/2018)

Folding pattern:

Perhaps broken along horizontal creases.

State of preservation:

Fragmentary, fragment torn at left and bottom, right and upper margin preserved.

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 (↓), 5 surviving lines.

Hand:

Documentary hand’ (Stegemann 1934: p. 16)

Findspot:

Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 332)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 332)
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/RZ00004836

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

★ Dosoo, Korshi, and Markéta Preininger. Papyri Copticae Magicae. Coptic Magical Texts, Volume 1: Formularies (PCM I 1), Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete – Beihefte 48. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023, p. 54-57, no. 2.

Blumell, Lincoln H., and Korshi Dosoo. “A Coptic Magical Text for Virginity in Marriage: A Witness to the Practice of Celibate Marriage from Christian Egypt?” Harvard Theological Review 114.1 (2021): 118-142.

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. 16, no. 8.

Till, Walter. “Zu den Wiener koptischen Zaubertexten.” Orientalia 4 (1935): 203, no. 8.


Translations:
General:

Trismegistos ID:

91401

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”

289

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 (15/10/2018); EL (4/1/2019); KD (18/11/2019); KD (2/3/2020); EL (18/8/2020); MPS (22/3/2021); MPS (23/9/2022); KD (20/11/2023); KD (21/1/2024)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M241," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m241. Accessed on 15/05/2024

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