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KYPRIANOS M356

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

Vienna, Nationalbibliothek K 05024 Pap

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. +1-10: Love Spell. (Hand 1)
2. Vo ll. x+1-10: Invocation (?). (Hand 2)

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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)

Script(s):

Coptic

Dialect:

Sahidic (non-standard)

Language/dialect notes:

See related texts for further notes.

Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 801 – 1000
Date notes:

Till (1942: p. 104); TM (15/1/2019)

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

Published. No published image. New edition desirable.

Image: http://digital.onb.ac.at/RepViewer/viewer.faces?doc=DOD_%2BZ117694207&order=1&view=SINGLE

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 9.5 Width: 12.5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Till (1942: p. 104); Collection Website (15/1/2019)

Folding pattern:

1 horizontal crease (?) and broken at other horizontal creases (?).

State of preservation:

Fragmentary, torn at the top and bottom. Barely legible due to damage and faded ink.

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. 10 surviving lines recto, 10 surviving lines verso. Two sides written at 180 degrees to one another.

Hand:

Two different hands

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/RZ00008249

Notes/Discussion:

Written in two hands. Two sides written at 180 degrees to one another. (Till 1942: p. 104)

Bibiliography
Editions:

★ Till, Walter. “Koptische Kleinliteratur 1–4.” Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde no. 77 (1942): 104-106, no. 2.


Translations:
General:

Trismegistos ID:

108608

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”

239.275

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:

MPS 15/1/2019; EL (22/1/2019); KD (10/12/2019); EL (21/7/2020); MPS (22/3/2021)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M356," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m356. Accessed on 03/05/2025

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