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KYPRIANOS M278

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

Vienna, Nationalbibliothek K 00078 Pap
formerly AN 195

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. 1-29: Letter from Jesus to Abgar.

See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)

Script(s):

Coptic

Dialect:

Fayumic

Language/dialect notes:

See related texts for further notes.Cf.Stegemann (1934: p. 28)

Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 301 – 500
Date notes:

Stegemann (1934: p. 28); TM (20/12/2018)

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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=DTL_8505130&order=1&view=SINGLE

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Parchment

Dimensions (cm): Height: 4.5 Width: 11 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Stegemann 1934: p. 28; Col. website (20/12/2018)

Folding pattern:

2 horizontal, 1 vertical crease.

State of preservation:

Triangular fragment; Upper margin preserved, lower margin lost, beginnings of lines lost from l. 4.

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, 29 lines.

Hand:

Documentary hand (Stegemann 1934: p. 28)
Comparable to Bell Tag. IIIb and K 8636

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 201

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/RZ00004843

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. 28; 45-46; 79, no. 50.

Till, Walter. “Zu den Wiener koptischen Zaubertexten.” Orientalia 4 (1935): 210-211; 219, no. 50.


Translations:

Kropp, Angelicus. Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte. Übersetzungen und Anmerkungen. Vol. 2. Bruxelles: Édition de la Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1931, p. 77–78, no. 24.


General:

Bélanger Sarrazin, Roxanne. “Les appels au « Jésus guérisseur » dans les formules iatromagiques coptes”, in Études coptes XVI. Dix-huintième journée dàétudes (Bruxelles, 22-24 juin 2017) (Cahiers de la bibiothèque copte 23), edited by Anne Boud’hors, Esther Garel, Catherine Louis and Naïm Vanthieghem. Paris: Éditions de Boccard, 2020, p. 191-193.

Geerard, Maurice. Clavis Apocryphorum Novi Testamenti. Turnhout: Brepols, 1992, p. 67, no. 88.3. [non vidi]

Krall, Jakob. “Ägyptische Abtheilung.” In: Papyrus Erzherzog Rainer. Führer durch die Ausstellung. Mit 20 Tafeln und 90 Textbildern, edited by Josef Ritter von Karabacek. Wien: Alfred Hölder, 1894, p. 57, no. 195.


Trismegistos ID:

91442
111685

PAThs: 1702
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”

260

AKZ: question mark icon Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte

2.24

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 (20/12/2018); EL (23/1/2019); KD (22/11/2019); EL (29/7/2020); KD (10/1/2022); KD (2/2/2022)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M278," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m278. Accessed on 16/05/2024

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