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KYPRIANOS M3921

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

P. Lond. Copt. I 523
P. Lond. Copt. 1 523
London, British Library Or 4926 (2)
London, British Library Or 4920 (2) (erroneous)

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

Magical (formulary)
Contents:

1. Ro cols. 1-2: Unpublished Greek text.
2. Vo ll. 1-12: Calendar specifying the timing of magical rituals according to the positions of the moon and planets (Coptic).
See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Greek
Script(s):

Coptic
Greek
Dialect:

Fayumic
Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 301 – 500
Date notes:

Dated to fourth century by Cuyler (2020). TM (15/10/2022) dates to 301-900 CE (i.e., no clear dating). Crum (1905: 252) compares the hand to Vienna Nationakbibliothek K 1231-1238 (TM 107863), which is dated fourth to fifth century; he compares the eta to that of PGM VII (KYP M156), dated to the fourth century, and the shai to P. Lond. Copt. I 498, written in Akhmimic, so dating to the fifth century at the latest.
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Verso published, recto unpublished.
Image:

Form:

Roll (?)
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 25.2 Width: 8.5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

10 x 3 3/8 inches (Crum 1905: 252).
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

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

3
Pages/Columns (notes):

2 surviving columns recto (→), 1 surviving column verso (↓), 12 surviving lines.
Hand:

Findspot:

Fayum, Egypt

(TM places ID: 332)
Place of purchase:

Fayum, Egypt

(TM places ID: 332)
Writingspot:

Fayum, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 332)
Present Location:

London, British Library
Collection History:

Acquired by Grenfell in the Fayum (Crum 1905: 252).
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 192
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Crum, Walter E. Catalogue of the Coptic Manuscripts in the British Museum (P. Lond. Copt.). London: British Museum, 1905, p. 252-253, no. 523.
Translations:
General:

Griffith, F. Ll. “ⲡⲉⲧⲃⲉ=Νεμεσις”, Proceedings of the Society for Biblical Archaeology 22 (1900): 162-163.

Cuyler, Mary Jane. “Artefact ID 59”, 4CARE database – Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, 2020 https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/59

Till, Walter. “Bemerkungen zu koptischen Textausgaben 7-8,” Orientalia 12 (1943.): 334.

Trismegistos ID:

108647

 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 (14/10/2022); KD (15/10/2022)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M3921," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m3921. Accessed on 29/04/2025

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