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KYPRIANOS M3955

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Bibliotheca Nazionale Peyron Ms. 154/2

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Magical (formulary)
Contents:

1. ll. 1-47: Invocation for healing a bowel problem.
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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Script(s):

Coptic
Dialect:

Sahidic (non-standard)
Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 501 – 1100
Date notes:

Preliminary estimate date on typical range of magical texts of this type (KD 30/3/2024).
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Archive name:
State of edition:

Unpublished.
Image:

Form:

Unclear
Material:

Unknown
Dimensions (cm): Height: Width: Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

No information on dimensions.
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Damage to the left margin is suggested by Peyron’s transcription, but the manuscript otherwise seems to be intact.
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Pages/Columns (notes):

From Peyron’s transcription there seem to be 47 surviving lines.
Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt (?)

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Writingspot:

Egypt (?)

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Present Location:

Unknown
Collection History:

A transcription of the text made by Amedeo Peyron (1785-1870) is held in the Bibliotheca Nazionale in Turin, Italy under the manuscript number Peyron Ms. 154/2.
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Notes/Discussion:

This entry is a placeholder; the manuscript itself is lost, but a transcription is held in the Bibliotheca Nazionale in Turin.

Bibiliography
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General:

Vassallo, Christian, with Nathan Carlig and Korshi Dosoo. “Amedeo Peyron and the History of Coptic Papyrology: With a Description of Two Unpublished Magical Texts From the “Fondo Peyron” of the Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria di Torino (Mss. 158–159)”, in Coptica Taurinensia: Coptic Papyri from the Museo Egizio, edited by Susanne Töpfer, Lajos Berkes, Anne Boud’hors, Costanza Bianchi, Esther Garel, Frederic Krueger, Tonio Sebastian Richter, Gesa Schenke. Turin: Museo Egizio, 2025, p. 34.

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 (30/3/2024); KD (24/1/2025); KD (19/12/2025)

How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP M3955," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, Korshi Dosoo, Markéta Preininger, & Roxanne Bélanger Sarrazin (principal editors), www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m3955. Accessed on 19/10/2026
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