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KYPRIANOS M443

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

PGM Christian 19
PSI 6 719
PSI VI 719

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. 1-6: Series of scriptural incipits and citations: John 1.1, Matthew 1.1., Mark 1.1 & 1.2, Luke 1.1., Psalm 90.1, Matthew 6.9 (likely applied amulet for healing/protection).
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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 (1/3/2019); 4-5th century (?) (Vitelli 1920: p. 151); 6th century (Jones 2015: p. 83).
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image: http://www.psi-online.it/images/orig/PSI%20VI%20719%20r.jpg?1365957903

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 5.8 Width: 24.5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Collection website (1/3/2019): Jones 2015: p. 83: 25 x 5.5 cm.
Folding pattern:

Folded, transferred wet ink visible (Jones 2015: p. 84). Several vertical creases.
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 (→), 6 lines. Kollesis of protokollon visible.
Hand:

Neat, perpendicular hand, semi-cursive and decorative (Jones 2015: p. 84 and 85).

Findspot:

Oxyrhynchus (Bahanasa), Egypt (?)

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

Oxyrhynchus (Bahanasa), Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 1524)
Present Location:

Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
Collection History:

No acquisition information.
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 128
Collection website: http://www.psi-online.it/documents/psi;6;719

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

★ Jones, Brice C. “New Testament Texts on Greek Amulets from Late Antiquity and Their Relevance for Textual Criticism.” PhD thesis, Concordia University, 2015, p. 83-87, no. 4.

Preisendanz, Karl. Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die Griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol. 2. Leipzig–Berlin: Teubner, 1931, p. 207-208, no. 19.

Vitelli, Girolamo. Pubblicazioni della Società Italiana per la ricerca dei papiri greci e latini in Egitto: Papiri greci e latini. Vol. 6. Florence: Pubblicazioni della Società Italiana, 1920, p. 151-152, no. 719.

Wilcken, Ulrich, “Referate. Papyrus-Urkunden. V.” Archiv 7 (1924): p. 86.

Wessely, Carl. “Les plus anciens monuments du christianisme II.” In Patrologia orientalis 18.3, edited by René Graffin and François Nau. Paris: Librarie de Paris, 1924, p. 413, no. 50.
Translations:
General:

Aland, Kurt. Repertorium der griechischen christlichen Papyri. Biblische Papyri, Altes Testament, Neues Testament, Varia, Apokryphen. Vol. 1. Patristische Texte und Studien 18. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1976, Var31.

Arnesano, D. “Papiri Letterari della Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana”, CD-Rom, Cassino 2002, scheda no. 130.

de Bruyn, Theodore. “Papyri, Parchments, Ostraca, and Tablets Written with Biblical Texts in Greek and Used as Amulets: A Preliminary List.” In Early Christian Manuscripts: Examples of Applied Method and Approach, edited by Thomas J. Kraus and Tobias Nicklas. Leiden: Brill, 2010, p. 168.

de Bruyn, Theodore S., and Jitse Dijkstra. “Greek Amulets and Formularies from Egypt Containing Christian Elements. A Checklist of Papyri, Parchments, Ostraka, and Tablets.” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 48 (2011): 188, no. 38.

Kraus, Thomas J. “Manuscripts with the Lord’s Prayer. They Are More Than Simply Witnesses to That Text Itself.” In New Testament Manuscripts: Their Texts and Their Worlds, edited by Thomas J. Kraus and Tobias Nicklas. Leiden: Brill, 2006, p. 244, fig. 4.

La’da, C. A. and A. Papathomas. “A Greek Papyrus Amulet from the Duke Collection with Biblical Excerpts.” BASP 41 (2004): 109, 112.

Mirecki, Paul A. “Evangelion-Incipits Amulets in Greek and Coptic: Towards a Typology.” In Proceedings of the Central States Regional Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature and the American Schools of Oriental Research. Vol. 4, edited by J. J. Johnson Leese. Kirkwood: Society of Biblical Literature, 2001, p. 148, no. 9.

Naldini, Mario (ed.). Documenti dell’antichità cristiana: papiri e pergamene greco-egizie della raccolta fiorentina. Firenze: Le Monnier, 1965, no. 40.

Pintaudi, Rosario. “Per la datazione di PSI VI 719.” AnPap 2 (1990): 27-28.

Rahlfs, Alfred, and Detlef Fraenkel Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments, für das Septuaginta-Unternehmen aufgestellt. Die Überlieferung biz zum VIII. Jahrhundert. Vol. 1.1. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2004, p. 117, no. 2075.

Sanzo, Joseph E. Scriptural Incipits on Amulets from Late Antique Egypt: Text, Typology, and Theory. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014, pp. 86-88, no. 10.

van Haelst, Joseph. Catalogue des papyrus littéraires juifs et chrétiens. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 1976, p. 155, no. 423.

Trismegistos ID:

61617

 		PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

Christian 19

 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

423

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

38

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

MPS (1/3/2019); MPS (29/9/2020); SG (25/07/2025); KD (3/9/2025); SG (11/8/2025)

How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP M443," 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-m443. Accessed on 26/10/2026
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