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KYPRIANOS M315

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

P. Schott-Reinhardt Inv. 500/501
P. Heid. Inv. Kopt. / Arab. 500 + 501
P. Baden 5 123
P. Baden V 123
P. Bad. 5 123
P. Bad. V 123

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

Magical (formulary)

Contents:

Recto 500+501:

1. Ro ll. 1-5: Love spell (only instructions remain)
2. Ro ll. 6-27: Separation spell
3. Ro ll. 28-46: Love spell
4. Ro ll. 47-51: To free from love (?)
5. Ro ll. 52-84: Curse (anti-charitesion)

Verso 500:

6. Vo ll. 85-102: Separation (two spells)
7. Vo ll. 103-115: Charitesion/Love spell using image of Jesus
8. Vo ll. 116-124: Love spell?

See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Arabic

Script(s):

Coptic
Arabic

Dialect:

Sahidic (non-standard)

Language/dialect notes:

See related texts for further notes. Cf. Bélanger Sarrazin (2017: p. 395), who lists as Fayumic. ⲱ = ⲟ may suggest Mesokemic features (EL).

Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 751 – 800
Date notes:

601-800 (TM 24/9/18). 701-800 (Bilabel & Grohmann 1934: p. 328). Naïm Vanthieghem suggests a date in the late eighth century based on the Arabic hand (personal communication 12/11/2024).

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

Published. New edition desirable.

Image: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.40994#0001

Form:

Rotulus

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 121 Width: 21.5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

500: 59.5 x 21cm; 501: 61 x 21cm

Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Likely broken at top; originally a rotulus of 121 cm in height, cut in two for framing.

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 (→). 83 surviving lines recto, 39 lines verso.

Hand:

P. Schott-Reinhardt Inv. 500/501 hand

Findspot:

Middle Egypt, Egypt (?)

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

Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 294)
Present Location:

Heidelberg, Institut für Papyrologie

Collection History:

No acquisition information.

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 156
Collection website: https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/p_kopt_500

Notes/Discussion:

Formulae in Coptic, instructions in Arabic.

Erroneously listed as ACM 86 in Mößner & Nauerth 2015: p. 306

Bibiliography
Editions:

Bilabel, Friedrich, and Adolf Grohmann. Griechische, koptische und arabische Texte zur Religion und religiösen Literatur in Ägyptens Spätzeit. Heidelberg: Verlag der Universitätsbibliothek, 1934, p. 328-344, no. 123.

Polotsky, Hans Jakob. “Zu einigen Heidelberger koptischen Zaubertexten.” Orientalia 4 (1935): 420.


Translations:

Mößner, Tamara and Claudia Nauerth. “Koptische Text und ihre Bilder.” In Ägyptische Magie und ihre Umwelt, edited by Andrea Jördens, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2015, p. 314-327.


General:

Grumach, Irene. “On the History of a Coptic Figura Magica”. In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Congress of Papyrology: Ann Arbor, Michigan, 13-17 August 1968, edited by Deborah H. Samuel, Toronto: Hakkert, 1970, p. 169-181.

Love, Edward O.D. “Bilingualism and Mono-/Bigraphia at the Nexus of Magical Traditions: From Egyptian-Greek to Coptic-Arabic Magical Texts”, in Christians and Muslims in Early Islamic Egypt, edited by Lajos Berkes. Ann Arbor: American Society of Papyrologists, 2022, p. 183-187.

Love, Edward O. D. ““Crum’s Chicken”: Alpak, Demonised Donkeys, and Avianised Demons among the Figures of Demotic, Greek, and Coptic Magical Texts”, in Magikon Zōon: Animal and Magic, edited by Korshi Dosoo and Jean-Charles Coulon (forthcoming).

Mößner, Tamara and Claudia Nauerth. “Koptische Text und ihre Bilder.” In Ägyptische Magie und ihre Umwelt, edited by Andrea Jördens, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2015, p. 306; p. 314-327; p. 352.

Untermann, Matthias (editor). Ägyptische Magie im Wandel der Zeiten: eine Ausstellung des Instituts für Papyrologie in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Institut für Ägyptologie der Universität Heidelberg (Heidelberg : Universitätsmuseum Heidelberg, 2011), p. 28, p. 30.

van der Vliet, Jacques. “Varia magica coptica”, Aegyptus 71 1/2, 1991, p. 217-242.


Trismegistos ID:

102087

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”

168

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

102087

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 (24/9/2018); MPS (3/9/2019); KD (2/12/2019); EL (8/9/2020); KD (19/10/2020); KD (16/2/2021); MPS (12/1/2022); KD (21/3/2022); KD (18/1/2023); KD (25/2/2023); KD (12/11/2024)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M315," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m315. Accessed on 02/05/2025

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