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KYPRIANOS M371

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

P. CtYBR inv. 846

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

Magical (formulary)

Contents:

Original Use:

Page from codex containing Judges 9.7-19.

Re-use (palimpsest):

Ro ll. 1-14: Unclear; perhaps curse or love spell.

See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)

Script(s):

Coptic

Dialect:

Sahidic

Language/dialect notes:

TM (2/9/2020)

Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 501 – 700
Date notes:

TM (28/1/2019)

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

Unpublished. Currently being edited by Michael Zellmann-Rohrer

Image: http://findit.library.yale.edu/iiif/universal_viewer?oid=15515230&page=1&stream_id=jp2#page/1/mode/1up

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Parchment

Dimensions (cm): Height: 19.5 Width: 14.7 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Collection website (28/1/2019); Emmel states 19.5 x 14.7 (Emmel 1990: p. 14)

Folding pattern:

Several horizontal creases and 1 vertical crease.

State of preservation:

Complete. Parchment contains complete text but is damaged in the center on the top.

Pages/Columns: question mark icon Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.

1

Pages/Columns (notes):

1 column recto, 14 lines.

Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt

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

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library

Collection History:

Purchased from Phocion J. Tano in Cairo 1931 (Emmel 1990: p. 14).

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 242
Collection website: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/digcoll/2757625

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:
Translations:
General:

Emmel, Stephen. “Coptic Biblical Texts in the Beinecke Library.” Journal of Coptic Studies 1 (1990): 13-28, p. 14.


Trismegistos ID:

111279
108028

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:

MPS (28/1/2019); EL (19/3/2019); KD (13/12/2019); MPS (2/9/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M371," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m371. Accessed on 03/05/2025

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