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KYPRIANOS M319

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

PCM 1 33
PCM I 33
P. Heid. Inv. Kopt. 580
P. Baden 5 133
P. Bad. V 133
P. Bad. 5 133
P. Bad. V 133

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. 1-5: For a man given a cup of sorcery (anti-magic).
2. Ro ll. 6: For a child who cries (healing).
3. Ro ll. 7-9: For a woman with bleeding (healing).
4. Ro ll. 10-13: For unbinding a bridegroom (healing, anti-magic)
5. Ro ll. 14-18: Instructions for a ealing amulet.
6. Vo ll. 1-3: Kharaktēres
See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Script(s):

Coptic
Dialect:

Sahidic
Language/dialect notes:

Dosoo/Preininger 2023: p. 433;Bélanger Sarrazin 2017: p. 395.
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 901 – 1100
Date notes:

Dated palaeographically to the tenth or eleventh century by Dosoo/Preininger (2023: p. 432). 901-1000 CE according to Mößner and Nauerth (2015: p. 308). 9th to 11th century in TM (25/9/18); a date before the 10th century is unlikely based on the use of paper.
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Paper
Dimensions (cm): Height: 14.6 Width: 16 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Bilabel and Grohmann 1934: p. 382. 15 x 16.5 cm (Mößner and Nauerth 2015: p. 308)
Folding pattern:

3 vertical, 4 horizontal fold lines visible.
State of preservation:

Complete (?). Preserved on the right-hand side, frayed and torn in the bottom half.
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. 18 lines recto, 3 lines (?) verso.
Hand:

P. Heid. Inv. Kopt. 580 hand

Findspot:

Arsinoites (Fayum) (?)

(TM places ID: 332)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Arsinoites (Fayum) (?)

(TM places ID: 332)
Present Location:

Heidelberg, Institut für Papyrologie
Collection History:

Acquired in 1896 by K. Reinhardt as part of a large number of papyri, parchments and wooden tablets, and sold 1897 to the University of Heidelberg (Seider 1964: p. 143-144, 168; Dosoo/Preininger 2023: p. 432).
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_580

Notes/Discussion:

Trismegistos lists as bilingual with Arabic, but seems to only have Arabic pseudo-script.

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. 382-383, no. 133.

★ 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. 432-435, no. 33.
Translations:
General:

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, 2002, p. 192-193.

Mößner, Tamara and Claudia Nauerth. “Koptische Text und ihre Bilder.” In Ägyptische Magie und ihre Umwelt, edited by Andrea Jördens, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2015, p. 308.

Seider, Richard. “Aus der Arbeit der Universitätsinstitute. Die Universitäts-Papyrussammlung.” Heidelberger Jahrbücher 8 (1964): 142-203.

Untermann, Matthias (ed.). 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. 10.

Trismegistos ID:

102082

 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:

EL (25/9/18); MPS (9/9/2019); MPS (3/9/2020); KD (6/10/2021); KD (21/3/2022); SVS (08/09/2022); MPS (10/11/2022); KD (3/2/2023); KD (20/11/2023); KD (22/1/2024)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M319," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m319. Accessed on 21/11/2025

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