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KYPRIANOS M251

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

Vienna, Nationalbibliothek K 07110 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. 1-2: Applied amulet for healing/protection against scorpions, containing the names of angels Michael, Gabriel and Raphael.

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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)

Script(s):

Coptic

Dialect:

[non-linguistic]

Language/dialect notes:

KYP T452 comprises exclusively divine names.

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. 19); TM (10/12/2018)

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

Published.

Image: http://digital.onb.ac.at/RepViewer/viewer.faces?doc=DTL_2169137&order=1&view=SINGLE

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Paper

Dimensions (cm): Height: 5.7 Width: 6.5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Stegemann (1934: p. 19); Collection Website (10/12/2018)

Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Complete, damage to all edges and some small holes.

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, 2 lines and an image of a scorpion.

Hand:

‘Documentary hand’ (Stegemann 1934: p. 19)

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/RZ00003324

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. 19; 41, no. 21, fig. 1.

Till, Walter. “Zu den Wiener koptischen Zaubertexten.” Orientalia 4 (1935): 209, no. 21.


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. 55-56, no. 68.

Froschauer, Harald, and Cornelia E. Römer. “Kat.-Nr. 57.” In Zwischen Magie und Wissenschaft. Ärzte und Heilkunst in den Papyri aus Ägypten, Nilus 13, edited by Harald Froschauer and Cornelia E. Römer. Wien: Phoibos Verlag, 2009, p. 120.

Horak, Ulrike. Illuminierte Papyri, Pergamente und Papiere. Pegasus Oriens. Vol. 1. Wien: Holzhausen, 1992, p. 260, ViP 342.Reinfandt, Lucian. “Kat.-Nr. 37: Amulette gegen den Skorpionstich.” In Orakelsprüche, Magie und Horoskope. Wie Ägypten in die Zukunft sah, Nilus 22, edited by Angelika Zdiarsky. Wien: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, 2015, p. 110–111.


Trismegistos ID:

91413

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 10/12/2018; EL (4/1/2019); KD (19/11/2019); EL (19/8/2020); MPS (22/3/2021)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M251," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m251. Accessed on 25/04/2025

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