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KYPRIANOS M3807

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

P. Wessely number unknown

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

Magical (applied) (?)
Documentary (inventory)
Contents:

Original use: (?)

1. Ro ll. 1-8: Prayer to the Trinity for the protection of the spirit against the works of the Devil (applied amulet for healing/protection ?).

Re-use (?):

2. Inventory of documents (Greek).
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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Greek
Script(s):

Coptic
Greek
Dialect:

Faiyumic
Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 301 – 400
Date notes:

Dated by Wessely (1924) to the fourth century based on the Greek manuscript on the verso.
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published
Image:

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 29 Width: 10.6 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Wessely (1924).
Folding pattern:

5 vertical creases (Wessely 1924).
State of preservation:

Damaged; loss of end of first line, top of manuscript probably lost.
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. 8 lines recto.
Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt

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

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Prague, Private collection Wessely
Collection History:

No acquisition information.
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 289
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Wessely, Carl. “Les plus anciens monuments du christianisme II.” In Patrologia orientalis 18.3, edited by René Graffin and François Nau. Paris: Librarie de Paris, 1924, p. 422 no. Q.
Translations:
General:

Trismegistos ID:

244084

 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 (27/5/2022); KD (24/1/2025)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M3807," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m3807. Accessed on 29/10/2025

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