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KYPRIANOS M4003

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

P. Berol. 22 235
P. Berol. XXII 235
P. Berol. 22235
Berlin P. 22235

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

Magical (applied)

Contents:

Original use:

1. Ro. ll. 1-2: Letter

Re-use:
1. Vo. ll. 1-3 Incipit Matthew 1.1.
2. Vo. ll. 4-7 Incipit Mark 1.1.
3. Vo. ll. 8-10 Incipit Luke 1.1.
4. Vo. ll. 11-14 Incipit John 1.1.
5. Vo. ll. 15-17 Incipit Matthew 1.1.

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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)

Script(s):

Coptic

Dialect:

Sahidic

Language/dialect notes:

Coptic (Sahidic) (https://berlpap.smb.museum/17681/)

Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 501 – 800
Date notes:

6th to 7th centuries CE (https://berlpap.smb.museum/17681/).

Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published (recto unpublished).

Image: https://berlpap.smb.museum/Original/P_22235_R_001.jpg

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 17.7 Width: 4.8 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

17,7 cm x 4, 8 cm (collection website 9/10/2025)

Folding pattern:

6 (?) horizontal and 2 (?) vertical creases.

State of preservation:

Almost complete, damaged at the bottom.

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

1

Pages/Columns (notes):

Recto col. 1, 17 lines (↓); verso col 1, 1 line (↓). Verso written at 90 degrees to recto.

Hand:

Findspot: (TM places ID: )
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot: (TM places ID: )
Present Location:

Berlin, Papyrusdepot

Collection History:

Acquisition tin box 116 (collection website 9/10/2025).

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript.
Collection website: https://berlpap.smb.museum/17681/

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Sanzo, Joseph E. Scriptual Incipts on Amulets from Late Antique Egypt. Text, Typology and Theory, Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen, 2014, pp. 83-84, no. 6.


Translations:
General:

Mirecki, Paul A. “Evangelion-Incipits Amulets in Greek and Coptic: Towards a Typology.” In Proceedings of the Central States Regional Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature and the American Schools of Oriental Research. Vol. 4, edited by J. J. Johnson Leese. Kirkwood: Society of Biblical Literature, 2001, 145, no. 2.

Mirecki, Paul A. “A Seventh-Century Coptic Limestone in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Bodl. Copt. Inscr. 426).” In Magic and Ritual in the Ancient World, edited by Paul A. Mirecki and Marvin W. Meyer. Leiden: Brill, 2002, p. 53, no. 23.


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:

SG (06/09/2025), SG (9/10/2025); MPS (10/10/2025)


How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP M4003," 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-m4003. Accessed on 26/07/2026
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