KYPRIANOS DATABASE OF ANCIENT RITUAL TEXTS search icon
MANUSCRIPTS
TEXTS
ARCHIVES
HELP


KYPRIANOS M249

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

Vienna, Nationalbibliothek K 07092 Pap
formerly AN 90

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. 1-14-Vo ll. 1-2: Applied amulet for healing/protection of Solimon, son of Mariham, against disease.

See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)

Script(s):

Coptic

Dialect:

Sahidic (non-standard)

Language/dialect notes:

See related texts for further notes.
Bélanger-Sarrazin (2017: p. 388) lists as Sahidic, but this text is non-standard (KD 19/11/2019)

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. 18); TM (15/10/2018)

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

Published. No published image. New edition desirable.

Image: http://data.onb.ac.at/rep/102237FB

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Parchment

Dimensions (cm): Height: 8.2 Width: 5.7 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Stegemann (1934: p. 18); Collection Website (15/10/2018)

Folding pattern:

10/11 (?) horizontal creases. ‘tightly folded’ (Stegemann 1934: p. 18)

State of preservation:

Complete. Damage in the form of small holes on the left-hand side (Stegemann and Till assumed text was missing from the top and bottom, but there is no reason to assume this)

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. 14 lines recto, 2 lines verso.

Hand:

‘Documentary hand’ (Stegemann 1934: p. 18)

Findspot:

Egypt

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

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Vienna, Nationalbibliothek

Collection History:

Box 11

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/RZ00004822

Notes/Discussion:

Stegemann suggests verso may contain Arabic, but this is not apparent from the photo (KD 19/11/2019).

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. 18; 35-37, no. 18.

Till, Walter. “Zu den Wiener koptischen Zaubertexten.” Orientalia 4 (1935): 209, no. 18.


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. 69, no. 85.


Trismegistos ID:

91410

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”

101

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 (19/11/2019); EL (27/5/2020); KD (27/5/2020); EL (18/8/2020); MPS (8/9/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M249," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m249. Accessed on 01/05/2025

Found a mistake? Let us know!