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KYPRIANOS M326

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

P. Ryl. Copt. 107
C. Pharm. Copt. 33

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

Medical (recipe)
Contents:

Original use:

1. Ro (?): Unclear

Re-use (palimpsest):

2. Ro ll. 1-17: Prescription for diseases of the head and temples (healing)
3. Vo ll. 1-3: Fragmentary text (non-medical)
See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Script(s):

Coptic
Dialect:

Sahidic
Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 901 – 1100
Date notes:

Grons 2025: p. 473; TM (24/7/2026)
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. KYP A2
Archive name: White Monastery Library
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Parchment
Dimensions (cm): Height: 9.1 Width: 4.4 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Grons 2025: p. 473.
9 x 4.5 Crum 1909: p. 59
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Palimpsest; fragmentary.
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 recto, 1 column verso.
Hand:

Findspot:

White Monastery (Deir el-Abiad), Egypt

(TM places ID: 1589)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

White Monastery (Deir el-Abiad) (?)

(TM places ID: 1589)
Present Location:

Manchester, John Rylands Library
Collection History:
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 218
Collection website: https://luna.manchester.ac.uk/luna/servlet/Manchester~91~1

Notes/Discussion:

Verso in different hand (Crum 1909: p. 59).

Bibiliography
Editions:

★ Grons, Anne. Medizinische Rezepttexte in koptischer Sprache (C.Pharm.Copt.). Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete – Beiheft 56. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025, p. 473-476, no. 33, plates 26a-b.

Crum, Walter E. Catalogue of the Coptic manuscripts in the collection of the John Rylands Library, Manchester. Manchester: University Press, 1909, p. 59, no. 107.
Translations:
General:

Trismegistos ID:

111285

 		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” 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 (19/9/18); MPS (10/9/2019); KD (3/12/2019); MPS (18/8/2020); KD (23/6/2022); RBS (24/7/2026)

How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP M326," 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-m326. Accessed on 25/10/2026
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