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KYPRIANOS M412

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Bodleian MS. Copt. c (P) 4

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. 1-32 – Vo ll. 1-7: Curse by Jacob asking for vengeance against Maria daughter of Tsibel, Tatore daughter of Tashai, and Andreas, the son of Marthe.
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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Script(s):

Coptic
Dialect:

Sahidic with Akhmimic features
Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 325 – 500
Date notes:

Fourth or fifth century according to TM (2/4/2019); Dating unclear (Crum 1896: p. 85). Reference to “consubstantiality” (recto l. 6) is evidence for a date after 325 CE.
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Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 28.8 Width: 14.7 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Measured by EL. 28.5 x 14.5 cm (Crum 1896: p. 85).
Folding pattern:

5 horizontal, 4 vertical creases; the section on the verso with the address (“A(lpha) O(mega) ⳨ Jesus Christ”) would have been on the outside of the packet after folding in our reconstruction. Crum describes it as having been folded once vertically and horizontally and sealed (Crum 1896: p. 85).
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.

2
Pages/Columns (notes):

1 column each recto and verso; recto 32 lines, verso 7 lines.
Hand:

Small irregular script, uncial script without ligatures. Lines are irregular(Crum 1896: 85).

Findspot:

Egypt

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

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Oxford, Bodleian Library
Collection History:

No acquisition information.
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 265
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Crosses at beginning and end.

Bibiliography
Editions:

Crum, Walter E. “Eine Verfluchung.” Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 34 (1896): 85–89.
Translations:

Kropp, Angelicus. Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte. Übersetzungen und Anmerkungen. Vol. 2. Bruxelles: Édition de la Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1931, p. 234-238, no. 71.

Lexa, František. La magie dans l’Égypte antique de l’ancien empire jusqu’à l’époque copte. Les textes magiques. Vol. 2. Paris: Librairie orientaliste P. Geuthner, 1925, p. 170-172, no. XVII.

Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 192-194, no. 91.

Pernigotti, Sergio. Testi della Magia Copta. Imola: Editrice La Mandragora, 2000, no. 49.
General:

Bélanger Sarrazin, Roxanne. “’Just as You Quenched the Fiery Furnace of Nebuchadnezzar, Also Quench Every Fever.’ The Three Holy Children in Coptic Magic.” Vigiliae Christianae 78 (2024): 58-86, esp. p. 61, 80.

von Lemm, Oscar. Kleine Koptische Studien XXVI-XLV. St Petersburg: Buchdruckerei der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. 1905, p. 232-233, no. 27

Trismegistos ID:

99581

 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

91
Bélanger Sarrazin: question mark icon Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes”

237

 AKZ: question mark icon Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte

2.71

 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 (17/9/18); MPS (4/2/2019); KD (19/2/2019); KD (7/1/2020); MPS (1/9/2020); KD (17/9/2021); KD (24/9/2021); KD (4/10/2021); KD (16/9/2022); KD (2/2/2024)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M412," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m412. Accessed on 07/05/2025

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