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KYPRIANOS M3713

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

P. Monts. Roca. Inv. 646

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. 1-26, vo ll. 1-17: Unclear magical text.
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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. 401 – 900
Date notes:

Dating is provisional, based on range of dates typically found in Coptic magical texts.
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Archive name:
State of edition:

Unpublished. Edition in progress by Korshi Dosoo.
Image:

Form:

Sheet (?)
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 24.6 Width: 16.4 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Approximate dimensions taken from photograph of glassed fragments by KD (30/4/2021).
Folding pattern:

6 horizontal creases (?).
State of preservation:

Fragmentary, 8 fragments.
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 (↓). 26 (?) lines recto, 17 lines (?) verso.
Hand:

Informal, upright.

Findspot:

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Place of purchase:

Egypt

(TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Montserrat, Abadia
Collection History:

Acquired by Ramón Roca-Puig in Egypt in the 1950s.
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 232
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:
Translations:
General:

Trismegistos ID: 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:

KD (15/4/2021); KD (30/4/2021); KD (24/9/2021)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M3713," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m3713. Accessed on 30/04/2025

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