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KYPRIANOS M439

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

PGM Christian 15c
Vienna, Nationalbibliothek G 19929

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. 1-10: Curse with judicial features against unnamed victim.

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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 (26/2/2019); Preisendanz 1974: p. 224.

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Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.

Image: http://digital.onb.ac.at/rep/access/iiif/image/v2/5af078d39f1683785928820fc0bec53c5a537964c50850162f6636a57aac924c339f9abadef459ddebadfff555ecb0f020dabbda0c0c2ad5

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 11.9 Width: 10.5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Preisendanz 1974: p. 224; Collection website (28/9/2020).

Folding pattern:
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 (→), 10 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/RZ00009628

Notes/Discussion:

Folded in antiquity (TM 28/9/2020)

Bibiliography
Editions:

★ Preisendanz, Karl. Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die Griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol. 2. Leipzig–Berlin: Teubner, 1974, p. 224, no. 15c.

Wessely, Carl. “Les plus anciens monuments du christianisme II.” Patrologia orientalis 18 (1924): p. 440-441.


Translations:

Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 51, no. 28.


General:

Henner, Jutta, Hans Förster, and Ulrike Horak. Christliches mit Feder und Faden: christliches in Texten, Textilien und Alltagsgegenständen aus Ägypten; Katalog zur Sonderausstellung im Papyrusmuseum der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek aus Anlaß des 14. Internationalen Kongresses für Christliche Archäologie. Nilus. Vol. 3. Wien: ÖVG, 1999, p. 47, no. 37.


Trismegistos ID:

65123

PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

Christian 15c

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

28

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

1017

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

34

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

MPS (26/2/2019); MPS (28/9/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M439," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m439. Accessed on 08/05/2025

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