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KYPRIANOS M416

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

PGM Christian 2a
Vienna, Nationalbibliothek G 19889

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. 1-8: Amulet to protect house from evil
2. Vo ll. 1-9: Amulet to protect house from evil.

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Language(s):

Greek

Script(s):

Greek

Dialect:
Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 501 – 600
Date notes:

TM (15/2/2019); No date given by Wessely or Preisendanz.

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

Published.

Image: http://data.onb.ac.at/rep/101F99B2

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 15.5 Width: 9 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Collection website (15/2/2019); Wessely 1924: p. 440.

Folding pattern:

1 horizontal fold (?)

State of preservation:

Complete, although damaged in the center and on the sides.

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 each, recto and verso. Recto 8 lines, verso 9 lines.

Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt

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

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Vienna, Nationalbibliothek

Collection History:

No acquisition information.

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 357
Collection website: http://data.onb.ac.at/rec/RZ00008031

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

★ Preisendanz, Karl. Papyri Graecae magicae. Die griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol. 2. Leipzig – Berlin: Teubner, 1974, p. 210, no. 2a.

Wessely, Carl. “Les plus anciens monuments du christianisme II.” Patrologia orientalis 18.3 (1924): p. 440.


Translations:
General:

Trismegistos ID:

65118

PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

Christian 2a

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

1010

Bruyn-Dijkstra: question mark icon de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)"

17

TheDefix: question mark icon Thesaurus Defixionum To Zodion:
Edit History:

MPS (15/2/2019); MPS (11/9/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M416," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m416. Accessed on 07/05/2025

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