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KYPRIANOS M294

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

PCM 1 18
PCM I 18
P. CtYBR inv. 1800 qua

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

Magical (formulary)

Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-20: Curse to cause sickness.

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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)

Script(s):

Coptic

Dialect:

Sahidic

Language/dialect notes:

Bélanger Sarrazin 2017: p. 380.

Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 701 – 800
Date notes:

8th century according to Dosoo/Preininger (2023: 247). 501-700 (TM 4/2/2019).

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

Published.

Image: https://findit.library.yale.edu/bookreader/BookReaderDemo/index.html?oid=15518107#page/1/mode/1up

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 32.4 Width: 24.1 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Online Catalogue (4/2/2019)

Folding pattern:

8 horizontal creases, 3 (?) vertical creases.

State of preservation:

Complete with bottom right-hand corner missing and damage along folds.

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, 20 lines.

Hand:

ⲏ in miniscule; ⲉϩ ligatured (l. 14)

Findspot:

Middle Egypt, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 2800)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Middle Egypt, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 2800)
Present Location:

New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library

Collection History:

Acquired on 1 May 1964 from the dealer Hans P. Kraus in New York (Collection Website 4/2/2019).

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 242
Collection website: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/digcoll/2759462

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

★ Dosoo, Korshi, and Markéta Preininger. Papyri Copticae Magicae. Coptic Magical Texts, Volume 1: Formularies (PCM I 1), Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete – Beihefte 48. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023, p. 247-249, no. 18.

Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 215-216, no. 106, Appendix 4, p. 353-355.


Translations:
General:

Friedman, Florence D. Beyond the Pharaohs : Egypt and the Copts in the 2nd to 7th centuries A.D., Providence: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1989, p. 198.

MacCoull, Leslie S.B. 1975. “Coptic Papyri in the Beinecke Collection at Yale University.” In Proceedings of the XIV International Congress of Papyrologists, Oxford, 24-31 July 1974, 217-19. Graeco-Roman Memoirs, vol. 61. London: Egypt Exploration Society.

Petersen, Theodore C. A Collection of Papyri. New York: H. P. Kraus, 1964, p. 48-49, no. 62, with a photograph showing an incorrect arrangement of the fragments prior to conservation


Trismegistos ID:

99993

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

106

Bélanger Sarrazin: question mark icon Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes”

9

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:

EL (4/2/2019); MPS (30/8/2019); KD (28/11/2019); MPS (8/9/2020); KD (9/7/2022); KD (20/11/2023)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M294," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m294. Accessed on 20/04/2024

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