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KYPRIANOS M401

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

Allard Pierson Museum Inv. 16.750
P. Gieben Copt. 1
Amsterdam, Private collection Gieben Copt. 1

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

Magical (formulary)
Astrological (?)

Contents:

Original use:

1. Ro ll. 1-26: Astrological treatise (?); Arabic (unpublished).

Re-use:

2. Vo ll. 1-16: Charitesion/spell for favour.

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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Arabic

Script(s):

Coptic
Arabic

Dialect:

Sahidic

Language/dialect notes:

van der Vliet 2005: p. 131.

Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 801 – 900
Date notes:

Dating based on Arabic hand (van der Vliet 2005: p. 131 and 133); TM (2/1/2019).

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

Coptic text published, Arabic text unpublished.

Image:

Form:

Sheet (?)

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 24 Width: 21 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

van der Vliet 2005: p. 131.

Folding pattern:

Ca. 4 horizontal creases and 3 vertical creases (?)

State of preservation:

Complete, although beginning (ca. first two lines) of the text is missing as is the bottom margin. Several fragments.

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):

1 column verso (→) , 16 surviving lines (magical re-use); 1 column recto (↓), 26 lines (original use).

Hand:

Sloping lines. Documentary hand – semi uncials. Ligatured. Little punctuation marks or superlinear strokes (van der Vliet 2005: p. 131).

Findspot:

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Place of purchase:

Cairo, Egypt

(TM places ID: 2740)
Writingspot:

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam

Collection History:

Currently in the Allard Pierson Museum (private communication J. van der Vliet, 2/3/2022). Purchased in Cairo in the 1960’s by A. M. Hakkert, Dutch publisher, who sold it to the previous owner, J.C. Gieben (van der Vliet 2005: p. 131).

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 7
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

van der Vliet, Jacques. “A Coptic Charitesion (P. Gieben Copt. 1).” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 153 (2005): 131-140.


Translations:
General:

van Eeten, E. “Magie in Koptische teksten”, in Kopten: Christelijke cultuur in Egypte, Mededelingenblad Vereniging van Vrienden Allard Pierson Museum 12-13 (November 1998), p. 23, illustration 34.

van der Vliet, Jacques, in Coptic Texts and Artifacts Hidden in Amsterdam, M. Kuhn (ed.). Leiden/Amsterdam, 2000, p. 43, no. 33.


Trismegistos ID:

140205

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:

MPS 1/2/2019; EL (21/6/2019); KD (6/1/2020); MPS (1/9/2020); MPS (12/1/2022); KD (1/3/2022); KD (2/3/2022); KD (7/3/2022)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M401," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m401. Accessed on 30/04/2025

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