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KYPRIANOS M411

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British Library MS Or 4919 (2)
P. Lond. Copt. 317

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Magical (applied)
Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-21: Letter of Jesus to Abgar incipit and incipits of Gospels.
See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Script(s):

Coptic
Dialect:

Sahidic (non-standard)
Language/dialect notes:

See related texts for further notes. Cf. Bélanger Sarrazin (2017: p. 397), who lists as Sahidic.
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 501 – 700
Date notes:

Sanzo (2012: p. 99); TM (1/2/2019)
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Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Rotulus
Material:

Parchment
Dimensions (cm): Height: 6.7 Width: 1.6 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Sanzo 2012: p. 98. 1.6 cm margin at bottom.
Folding pattern:

11 horizontal creases (EL from autopsy on 19/12/2019); “Several horizontal creases and at least one vertical” (Sanzo 2012: p. 98); “Originally folded and used” (Crum 1905: p. 141)
State of preservation:

Complete, in 4 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 recto (hair side), 21 lines.
Hand:

Sloping script (Sanzo 2012: p. 98)

Findspot:

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

London, British Library
Collection History:

Acquired by the British Library in 1895 (EL from British Library Catalogue on 17/12/2019)
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 192
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Parallels in P. Berol. 22235; Sanzo(2012: p. 100 n. 12) suggests this may indicate a shared provenance.

Catalogued together with Or 4916-4928 (4924 and 4925 being Arabic) (EL from British Library Catalogue on 17/12/2019)

Framed with 4918 (according to British Library Reference Enquiries), manuscript = Or.4919(3) and should be ordered as Or.4918, but not in frame (Or.4918 = “GSA1”) that arrives when ordering Or.4919(3), but frame “GSA1” arrived which houses 4916(2); (3); (9); (8); (4); 4918 (2); (6); 4918c; 4917 (4); 4916 (7); 4917 (1); 4916 (5); 4917 (6); 4919 (4); 4920 (10) (EL 17/12/2019)

Frame “GSA1”
Order as Or 4918-4919 in the British Library; this frame contains 4918; 4919 (2); 4919 (3); (4920 (3); (4921 (3); 4920 (5); 4920 (7; 4920 (8); 4920 (6); (4927 (13); 4920 (12); 4927 (18) (EL 19/12/2019)

Bibiliography
Editions:

Sanzo, Joseph E. “Brit. Lib. Or. 4919(2): An Unpublished Coptic Amulet in the British Library.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 183 (2012): 98-100.
Translations:

Piwowarczyk, Przemysław. “Microtheologies behind the Biblical Amulets.” Journal of Juristic Papyrology 49 (2019): 274-275.
General:

Bélanger Sarrazin, Roxanne. “Les appels au « Jésus guérisseur » dans les formules iatromagiques coptes”, in Études coptes XVI. Dix-huitième journée d’études (Bruxelles, 22-24 juin 2017) (Cahiers de la bibiothèque copte 23), edited by Anne Boud’hors, Esther Garel, Catherine Louis and Naïm Vanthieghem. Paris: Éditions de Boccard, 2020, p. 191-193.

Crum, Walter E. Catalogue of the Coptic Manuscripts in the British Museum. London: British Museum, 1905, p. 141, no. 317.

Trismegistos ID:

112657

 PAThs: 1700
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Bélanger Sarrazin: question mark icon Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes”

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Edit History:

MPS (1/2/2019); EL (14/6/2019); EL (4/12/2019); EL (19/12/2019); KD (7/1/2020); MPS (1/9/2020); EL (2/9/2020); MPS (12/1/2022), JS (6/4/2022)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M411," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m411. Accessed on 30/04/2025

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