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KYPRIANOS M407

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

Louvre E 11036 A

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

Magical (applied)

Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-11: Applied curse against individuals named Pamin and Thekle.

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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)

Script(s):

Coptic

Dialect:

Akhmimic

Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 401 – 500
Date notes:

5th century date likely based on dialect and hand (KD + EL 22/9/2021) ; 395 – 641 according to Collection Website (22/9/2021); 395 – 7th century according to Collection Website (21/3/2019)

Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. KYP A28
Archive name: Aberdeen Scribal Group
State of edition:

Unpublished.

Image: https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010049008

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 20 Width: 15 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Coll. website (6/10/2021)

Folding pattern:

4 horizontal, 4 (?) vertical creases.

State of preservation:

Complete.

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 recto, 11 lines.

Hand:

Aberdeen Scribe

Findspot:

Upper Egypt, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 2766)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Upper Egypt, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 2766)
Present Location:

Paris, Louvre

Collection History:

Acquired in 1904 (comité d’acquisition du 29/2/1904), from Pierre Bouriant, son of the former Director of the École du Caire, Urbain Bouriant (private communication Florence Calament, 27/6/2019).

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 274
Collection website: https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010049008

Notes/Discussion:

Image on collection website (http://cartelfr.louvre.fr/cartelfr/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=22022&langue=fr) is incorrect, the image is actually 11036 B.

Bibiliography
Editions:
Translations:
General:

Boulard, Jean-Claude et al. Une autre Ėgypte, collections coptes du musée du Louvre. Le Mans: Somogy éditions d’art, 2009, p. 44, p. 171, no. 150.

Etienne, Marc. Heka, magie et envoûtement dans l’Ėgypte ancienne. Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2000, 114, catalogue no. 259 or 260.

Institut de monde arabe (France); Musée de l’Ephèbe. L’art copte en Égypte. 2000 ans de christianisme. Paris: Institut du monde arabie: Gallimard, 2000. p. 120, no. 91.


Trismegistos ID:

115765

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:

EL (21/3/2019); KD (27/6/2019); MPS (13/9/2019); KD (7/1/2019); MPS (1/9/2020); KD (22/9/2021); KD (6/10/2021); KD (6/10/2021)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M407," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m407. Accessed on 11/10/2024

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