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KYPRIANOS M374

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

Vienna, Nationalbibliothek K 11088 Pap
P. Vindob. K 11088

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

Magical (formulary)
Medical (recipes)
Contents:

1. A l. 1: Characters & Figure
2. A ll. 2-5: For childbirth (healing)
3. A ll. 6-9: For insomnia (healing ?)
4. B ll. 1-3: Unclear (healing ?)
5. B ll. 4-7: To stop menstrual bleeding (healing)
6. B ll. 7-9: To treat marrow (healing)
7. B ll. 10-13: For childbirth/conception (healing)
See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Script(s):

Coptic
Arabic
Dialect:

Sahidic (non-standard)
Sahidic with Fayumic features
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. 901 – 1100
Date notes:

Hevesi (2015: p. 56); Collection Website (3/1/2019)
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image: http://data.onb.ac.at/rep/10223F68

Form:

Sheet (?)
Material:

Paper
Dimensions (cm): Height: 12 Width: 14.5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Hevesi 2015: p. 57.
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Complete. Fragment of a page or loose leaf, torn diagonally on one side, although top and bottom appear to be preserved.
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. Recto 9 lines, verso 13 lines.
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/RZ00008286

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Hevesi, Krisztina. “The Coptic Medico-Magical Text K 11088 from the Papyrus Collection of the Austrian National Library”. Journal of Coptic Studies 17 (2015): 55-83.
Translations:
General:

Love, Edward O.D. “Bilingualism and Mono-/Bigraphia at the Nexus of Magical Traditions: From Egyptian-Greek to Coptic-Arabic Magical Texts”, in Christians and Muslims in Early Islamic Egypt, edited by Lajos Berkes. Ann Arbor: American Society of Papyrologists, 2022, p. 187.

Trismegistos ID:

874131

 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”

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 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 (3/1/2019); MPS (12/9/2019); KD (13/12/2019); EL (29/7/2020); MPS (22/3/2021); KD (21/3/2022); JS (31/08/2022)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M374," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m374. Accessed on 26/10/2025

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