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KYPRIANOS M327

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

P. Ryl. Copt. 108
P. Ryl. Copt. 265
P. Rylands Copt. 108
C. Pharm. Copt. 37

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

Medical (recipe)
Documentary (school text) (?)
Contents:

Original use:

1. Ro ll. 1-9: For watering eyes.

Re-use:

2. Ro ll. 1-6, Vo: List of months with numerals.
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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. 500; TM (24/7/2026); Dated to the eleventh century by Cromwell 2017: p. 10. Fifth to eighth century collection website (19/9/2018).
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. KYP A2
Archive name: White Monastery Library
State of edition:

Published.
Image: https://luna.manchester.ac.uk/luna/servlet/detail/ManchesterDev~93~3~55402~189076:Opthalmic-recipe-and-list?sort=reference_number%2Cimage_sequence_number%2Cimage_title%2Cimage_number&qvq=q:108;sort:reference_number%2Cimage_sequence_number%2Cimage_title%2Cimage_number;lc:ManchesterDev~93~3&mi=0&trs=8

Form:

Codex (?)
Material:

Parchment
Dimensions (cm): Height: 6.5 Width: 8.5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Crum 1909: p. 59
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Complete (?).
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 (flesh), 9 lines, 1 column verso (hair).
Hand:

Findspot:

White Monastery (Deir el-Abiad), Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 3121)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

White Monastery (Deir el-Abiad) (?)

(TM places ID: 3121)
Present Location:

Manchester, John Rylands Library
Collection History:

Acquired by Mrs. Rylands from James Lindsay, the 26th Earl of Crawford in 1901. The absence of a second number in Crum 1909 suggests that they were acquired after 1868, when Alexander Lindsay, the 25th Earl of Crawford, had his collection catalogued by J.M. Rodwell. It may therefore have been purchased by James Lindsay in 1898 from dealers in Cairo (Crum 1909: p. vii).
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/detail/ManchesterDev~93~3~55402~189076:Opthalmic-recipe-and-list?sort=reference_number%2Cimage_sequence_number%2Cimage_title%2Cimage_number&qvq=q:108;sort:reference_number%2Cimage_sequence_number%2Cimage_title%2Cimage_number;lc:ManchesterDev~93~3&mi=0&trs=8

Notes/Discussion:

Original use quite faded, appears to have been cancelled with lines through them.

Re-use: text starts on the second half of the page.

May be an end folio from a codex.

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. 500-504, no. 37, plate 28.

Crum, Walter E. Catalogue of the Coptic manuscripts in the collection of the John Rylands Library, Manchester. Manchester: University Press, 1909, p. 59, no. 108.
Translations:
General:

Cromwell, Jennifer. “Warm Hoopoe’s Blood and Cardamom: A Coptic Medial Text”, Egyptian Archaeology 51 (2017): 10-13.

Trismegistos ID:

111286

 		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 (19/8/18); MPS (10/9/2019); KD (8/11/2022); RBS (24/7/2026)

How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP M327," 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-m327. Accessed on 25/10/2026
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