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KYPRIANOS M354

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

Vienna, Nationalbibliothek K 05506 Pap
SB Kopt. I 4
P. Vindob. K 5506
C. Pharm. Copt. 27

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

Medical (recipes)
Magical (formulary)
Contents:

1 Ro ll. 1-17: ‘New Year’s Book’
2. Vo ll.1-3: Partially excised text.
3. Vo ll. 4-9: Recipe for sleep.
See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Script(s):

Coptic
Dialect:
Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 701 – 800
Date notes:

Grons 2025: p. 313; 9th-10th centuries (Online Catalogue 24/7/2026); 700-899 (?) (TM 24/7/2026)
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published
Image: http://data.onb.ac.at/rep/101F92E8

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 16 Width: 12 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Maximum heights and widths (Till 1946: p. 49)
(Online Catalogue 23/1/2019)
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Incomplete; 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 each recto and verso, 17 lines recto, 9 lines verso.
Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt (?)

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

Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Vienna, Nationalbibliothek
Collection History:

No acquisition information.
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 357
Collection website: http://data.onb.ac.at/rec/RZ00003326

Notes/Discussion:

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. 313-316, no. 27, plate 23.

Hasitzka, Monica R. M. Koptisches Sammelbuch. (MPER n.s. XXIII/1). Vienna: 1993:, no. 4 (SBKopt I).

Till, Walter. “Koptische Rezepte.” Bulletin de la Société d‘archéologie copte 12 (1946): p. 48-54 (verso text)

Till, Walter. “Bemerkungen zu koptischen Textausgaben. 7-8.” Orientalia 12 (1943): p. 333-334 (recto text).
Translations:
General:

Till, Walter. “Eine Koptische Bauernpraktik.” Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Kairo 6 (1936): p. 108-114.

Till, Walter. “Bemerkungen zu koptischen Textausgaben. 7-8.” Orientalia 12 (1943): 328-334.


[to be checked]

Froschauer, H. / Römer, C., Zwischen Magie und Wissenschaft. Ärzte und Heilkunst in den Papyri aus Ägypten (Nilus 13), Wien 2007, S. 105, Kat.-Nr. 33 [Verso]

Hasitzka, M., Kat.-Nr. 17: Neujahrsbuch, in: Zdiarsky, A. (Hrsg.), Orakelsprüche, Magie und Horoskope. Wie Ägypten in die Zukunft sah (Nilus 22), Wien 2015, Kat.-Nr. 17, S. 96 (mit weiterführender Literatur)

MPER N.S. XXV 298 (= Buschhausen, H. / Horak, U. / Harrauer, H., Der Lebenskreis der Kopten. Dokumente, Textilien, Funde, Ausgrabungen. Katalog zur Ausstellung im Prunksaal der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, Wien 1995, S. 279-280, Nr. 298) [Verso]; mit weiterführender Literatur

Nilus 22 (2015), Kat.-Nr. 17, S. 96, Abb. 33; Buschhausen u.a., Lebenskreis, S. 279, Nr. 298 [Verso]

Trismegistos ID:

101351
110269

 		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 (23/1/2019); MPS (11/9/2019); KD (10/12/2019); KD (23/6/2022); KD (29/6/2022); RBS (24/7/2026)

How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP M354," 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-m354. Accessed on 25/10/2026
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