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KYPRIANOS M246

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Vienna, Nationalbibliothek K 07089 Pap
formerly AN 87

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. 1-8: Applied amulet for healing/protection for Mahet the son of Sōe, perhaps against fever.

See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)

Script(s):

Coptic

Dialect:

Fayumic

Language/dialect notes:

Stegemann (1934: p. 17); See related texts for further notes.

Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 901 – 1100
Date notes:

Stegemann (1934: p. 17)

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Archive name:
State of edition:

Published. No published image. New edition desirable.

Image: https://digital.onb.ac.at/RepViewer/viewer.faces?doc=DOD_%2BZ120272903&order=1&view=SINGLE

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Parchment

Dimensions (cm): Height: 7.5 Width: 6.3 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Stegemann (1934: p. 17); Collection Website (15/10/2018)

Folding pattern:

Folded several times (Stegemann 1934: p. 17). Creases hard to discern from image, perhaps 2 vertical creases.

State of preservation:

Complete.

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, 8 lines comprising 1 line of characters, 6 lines of text, and 1 further line of characters.

Hand:

Uncial (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: https://search.onb.ac.at/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=ONB_alma21322425730003338&context=L&vid=ONB&lang=de_DE

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; 30-31, no. 15.

Till, Walter. “Zu den Wiener koptischen Zaubertexten.” Orientalia 4 (1935): 207, no. 15.


Translations:

Hasitzka, Monika. “Kat.-Nr. 22: Heilungsamulett.” In Orakelsprüche, Magie und Horoskope. Wie Ägypten in die Zukunft sah, edited by Angelika Zdiarsky, Wien: Phoibos Verlag, 2015, p. 101–102.


General:

Bélanger Sarrazin, Roxanne. “’Just as You Quenched the Fiery Furnace of Nebuchadnezzar, Also Quench Every Fever.’ The Three Holy Children in Coptic Magic.” Vigiliae Christianae 78 (2024): p. 58-86, esp. p. 85.

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. 61-62, no. 76.

Horak, Ulrike. Illuminierte Papyri, Pergamente und Papiere. Pegasus Oriens no. 1. Wien: Holzhausen, 1992, p. 252.


Trismegistos ID:

91407

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 15/10/2018; EL (4/1/2019); KD (18/11/2019); EL (18/8/2020); KD (13/12/2021); MPS (12/1/2022); KD (2/2/2024)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M246," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m246. Accessed on 01/05/2025

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