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KYPRIANOS M308

Sigla:

British Library MS Or 6796 (4) + MS Or 6796

Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical.	Magical (formulary)
Contents:	1. p. 2 l. 1-p. 3 ll. 1-70: Spell to cast out every unclean spirit (exorcism, parallels with Mary in Bartos).
	See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):	Egyptian (Coptic)
Script(s):	Coptic
Dialect:	Sahidic
Language/dialect notes:	See related texts for further notes; cf. Bélanger Sarrazin (2017: p. 383)
Date: Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE.	551 – 650
Date notes:	Crum dates to ca. 600 CE (Kropp 1931: p. xi); 476-525 (TM 21/3/2019); 501-700 (Bélanger Sarrazin 2017: p. 383)
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.	KYP A15
Archive name:	British Museum Portfolio
State of edition:	Published. New edition desirable.
Image:

Form:	Codex
Material:	Papyrus

Dimensions (cm):

Height: 69

Width: 24

Depth:

Dimensions (notes):	Kropp (1931: p. 47). 6794 (4): 34.5 x 24 cm; 6796: 34.5 x 23 cm.
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:	Complete.
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.	4
Pages/Columns (notes):	1 each, pages 2 and 3. Page 2 (6796 (4)) 64 lines, p. 3 (6796) 70 lines.
Hand:	British Museum Scribe

Findspot:	Thebes, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 2355)
Place of purchase:	(TM places ID: )
Writingspot:	Thebes, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 2355)
Present Location:	London, British Library
Collection History:	Acquired in 1907 with Or 6794, 6795, 6796 (1-3) (List of Oriental Manuscripts: p. 301)
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript.	192
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Notes/Discussion:

Manuscript consists of two sheets bound together as a bifolio at their upper parts, and then written on the inside pages (pp. 2-3). Both sheets consist of several kollemata, with each consisting of 3 sheets of papyrus glued together in such a way that horizontal and vertical fibres alternate.

Bibiliography

Editions:	★ Kropp, Angelicus. Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte. Textpublikation. Vol. 1. Bruxelles: Édition de la Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1931, p. 47-49, no. J. Kropp, Angelicus. Oratio Mariae ad Bartos. Ein koptischer Gebetstext aus den Giessener Papyrus-Sammlungen. Gießen: Universitätsbibliothek, 1965, text b, p. 14-15 (ll. 31-45).
Translations:	Kropp, Angelicus. Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte. Übersetzungen und Anmerkungen. Vol. 2. Bruxelles: Édition de la Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1931, p. 57-62, no. 15. Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 290-292, no. 132.
General:	Bélanger Sarrazin, Roxanne. “Les appels au « Jésus guérisseur » dans les formules iatromagiques coptes”, in Études coptes XVI. Dix-huitième journée d’études (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. 197-199. Bélanger Sarrazin, Roxanne. “Prayer of Christ from the Cross.” e-Clavis: Christian Apocrypha. Accessed 15 June 2023. https://www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-christian-apocrypha/prayer-of-christ-from-the-cross/ Camplani, Alberto. “‘Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani’. Pluralità dei linguiaggi religiosi e loro rielaborazione rituale in alcune preghiere magihche copte,” Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 76.1 (2010): p. 144-145. Department of Oriental P.B. and Mss. (British Library), List of Oriental Manuscripts 1890-1908, Or. 4047-6947, p. 301. Dosoo, Korshi. “Suffering Doe and Sleeping Serpent: Animals in Christian Magical Texts from Late Roman and Early Islamic Egypt”, in Korshi Dosoo and Jean-Charles Coulon (eds.), Magikon Zōon: Animal et magie dans l’Antiquité et au Moyen Âge \| Animal and Magic from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. Paris-Orléans: Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes, 2022, p. 528-531. Fauth, Wolfgang. Jao-Jawhe und seine Engel: Jahwe-Apellationen und zugehörige Engelnamen in griechischen und koptischen Zaubertexten. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014, p. 71-72. Kropp, Angelicus M. “Die Kreuzigungsgruppe des koptischen Papyrus Brit. Mus. Ms. Or. 6796.” Oriens Christianus 3 (1929): p. 64-68. Martín-Hernández, Raquel. “El poder de las imágenes en la magia a partir del s. IV d. C. Las representaciones de Jesús.” In Los orígenes del cristianismo en la literatura, el arte y la iconografía II, edited by J. A. Álvarez Pedrosa, M. López Salva and I. Sanz Extremeño. Madrid: 2018, p. 255-268. Sanzo, Joseph E. “The Innovative Use of Biblical Traditions for Ritual Power: The Crucifixion of Jesus on a Coptic Exorcistic Spell (Brit. Lib. Or. 6796[4], 6796) as a Test Case.” Archiv für Religionsgeschichte 16 (2014): 67–98.

Trismegistos ID:

100020

PAThs:

PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae		SM: Supplementum Magicum		GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming)	ACM: Ancient Christian Magic	132
Bélanger Sarrazin: Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes”	48	AKZ: Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte	1.J, 2.15	CBd: Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database	Mert.-Pack: Mertens-Pack online database
Van H: van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires		Bruyn-Dijkstra: de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)"		TheDefix: Thesaurus Defixionum	To Zodion:

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[Editor names]. "KYP M308," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, Korshi Dosoo, Markéta Preininger, & Roxanne Bélanger Sarrazin (principal editors), www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m308. Accessed on 24/07/2026
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