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KYPRIANOS M245

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

Vienna, Nationalbibliothek K 07088 Pap

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

Magical (applied ?)

Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-5: Applied amulet for healing/protection (?).
2. Vo ll. 1-7: Unclear almost illegible text.

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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)

Script(s):

Coptic

Dialect:

[non-linguistic]

Language/dialect notes:

See related texts for further note(surviving text comprises exclusively magical names)

Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 1001 – 1100
Date notes:

Stegemann (1934: p. 17); TM (10/12/2018)

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

Published.

Image: http://data.onb.ac.at/rep/10214846

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Paper

Dimensions (cm): Height: 6.5 Width: 5.8 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Stegemann (1934: p. 17); Collection Website (10/12/2018)

Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Fragmentary (?), very damaged, perhaps right side of a torn sheet, verso ink smudged and almost illegible (unlikely to be ink seepage, text verso traces do not mirror recto text).

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 each, recto and verso. 5 surviving legible lines recto. 7 (?) surviving lines verso, ink smudged and almost illegible (unlikely to be ink seepage, text verso traces do not mirror recto text)

Hand:

‘Documentary hand’ (Stegemann 1934: p. 17)

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/RZ00004839

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. 17, no. 14.


Translations:
General:

Trismegistos ID:

91406

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”

290

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 (10/12/2018); EL (4/1/2019); KD (18/11/2019); EL (4/6/2020); EL (18/8/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M245," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m245. Accessed on 01/05/2025

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