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KYPRIANOS M418

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PGM Christian 4
P. Oxy. VIII 1077

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

Magical (applied)
Contents:

1. Ro col. 1-5: Amulet against disease, contains gospel of Matthew 4.23-24 and with central image of a figure.
See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

Greek
Script(s):

Greek
Coptic
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:

Hunt 1911: p. 10; TM (18/2/2019): 501-700.
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Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image: https://library.artstor.org/#/asset/SS7730556_7730556_9255811

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Parchment
Dimensions (cm): Height: 6 Width: 11.1 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

See collection website (18/2/2019); Hunt 1911: p. 10.
Folding pattern:

4 vertical and 2 horizontal creases. Small cuts made on corners of vertical folds, resulting in rhombus shape.
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.

5
Pages/Columns (notes):

5 columns recto, 71 lines in total, ca. 15-16 lines per line.
Hand:

Coptic uncial script (Jones 2015, p. 70).

Findspot:

Oxyrhynchus (Bahanasa), Egypt

(TM places ID: 1524)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Oxyrhynchus (Bahanasa), Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 1524)
Present Location:

Allentown, Muhlenberg College
Collection History:

Likely excavated in Oxyrhynchus by the Egypt Exploration Society.
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 6
Collection website: https://library.artstor.org/#/asset/SS7730556_7730556_9255811

Notes/Discussion:

Text creates shape of cross.

Bibiliography
Editions:

Hunt, Arthur S. The Oxyrhynchus papyri. Vol. 8. London: The Egypt Exploration Fund, 1911, p. 10-11, no. 1077.

Jones, Brice C. “New Testament Texts on Greek Amulets from Late Antiquity and Their Relevance for Textual Criticism.” PhD thesis, Concordia University, 2015, p. 67-73, no. 1.

Preisendanz, Karl, and Henrichs, Albert. Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die Griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol. 2. Stuttgart: Teubner, 1974, p. 211, Christliches no. 4.

Sanzo, Joseph E. “Wrapped up in the Bible: The Multifaceted Ritual on a Late Antique Amulet (P. Oxy. VIII 1077).” Journal of Early Christian Studies 24.4 (2016): 569-597.
Translations:

Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 33, no. 7.
General:

Biondi, Alessandro. “Le citazioni bibliche nei papiri magici cristiani greci.” Stud.Pap. 20 (1979): 112.

Clark, Kenneth Willis. A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in America. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1937, p. 139.

de Bruyn, Theodore. “Appeals to Jesus as the One ‘Who Heals Every Illness and Every In

firmity’ (Matt 4:23, 9:35) in Amulets in Late Antiquity.” In The Reception and Interpretation of the Bible in Late Antiquity: Proceedings of the Montreal Colloquium in Honour of Charles Kannengiesser, 11-13 October 2006, edited by Lorenzo DiTommaso and Lucian Turcescu, Leiden: Brill, 2008, p. 186, no. 19.

Horak, Ulrike. Illuminierte Papyri, Pergamente und Papiere. Pegasus Oriens. Vol. 1. Wien: Holzhausen, 1992, p. 247, ViP 206.

Sanzo, Joseph E. Scriptual Incipts on Amulets from Late Antique Egypt. Text, Typology and Theory, Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen, 2014, pp. 96-97, no. 20.

van Haelst, J. Catalogue des papyrus litteraires juift et chretiens. Paris: Publications de Ia Sorbonne, 1976, p. 127, no. 341.

Wessely, C. “Les plus anciens monuments du Christianisme écrits sur papyrus (II}.” In Patrologia Orientalis, vol. 18., edited by R. Graffin and F. Nau. Paris: Firmin-Didot et Cie, Imprimeurs-Éditeurs, 1924, pp. 413-415, no. M.

Trismegistos ID:

61805

 		PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

Christian 4

 SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum GEMF: question mark icon Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) ACM: question mark icon Ancient Christian Magic

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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

341

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

19

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

MPS (18/2/2019); KD (26/4/2020); MPS (11/9/2020); SG (4/8/2025)

How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP M418," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, Korshi Dosoo, Markéta Preininger, & Roxanne Bélanger Sarrazin (principal editors), www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m418. Accessed on 26/10/2026
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