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KYPRIANOS M445

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

PGM Christian 21
P. Prague 1 Wessely
Pap-. Prag. Gr. I 1

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

Magical (formulary ?)
Contents:

1. p. 1 ll. 1-25, p. 2 ll. 1-28: Prayer for favour and success in Greek, ends with plea in Coptic.
See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

Greek
Egyptian (Coptic)
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. 301 – 500
Date notes:

TM (4/3/2019); Preisendanz (1974: p. 208); c. 300 (Hopfner 1935, p. 355); c. 300 Wessely (1946, p. 191)
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Codex
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 28.3 Width: 24 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Hopfner (1935: p. 355); Preisendanz (1974, p. 229)
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.

4
Pages/Columns (notes):

Bifolio; inner two pages written. Page 2: 25 lines, page 3: 28 lines column 2.
Hand:

Findspot:

Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt

(TM places ID: 332)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 332)
Present Location:

Prague, National Library
Collection History:

Owned by Wessely. Donated in 1934 to the National Library in Prague by Theodor Hopfner.
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 286
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Contains “NN”, thus perhaps formulary ?

Contains name of scribe – Besadoros – in postscript.

Valentinian echoes (see De Bruyn 2013).

Bibiliography
Editions:

Hopfner, Theodor. “Ein neuer Griechischer Zauberpapyrus (Pap. Wessely Pragens Grae. 1). Mit Tafeln.” Archiv Orientální 7 (1935): 355-366 (first complete edition of the text).

★ Preisendanz, Karl, Ernst Heitsch and Albert Henrichs. Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die Griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol. 2. Stuttgart: Teubner, 1974, p. 229-230, no. 21 Christliches.

Wessely, Carl. Les plus anciens monuments du christianisme I. Patrologia orientalis 4.2. Paris: Firmin-Didot. 1946, p. 191-192, no. 19.

de Bruyn, Theodore. “A Late Witness to Valentinian Devotion in Egypt?” Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum 18.1 (2013): 120–33, p. 127–130.
Translations:

Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 55-56, no. 36.
General:

de Bruyn, Theodore. “An Anatomy of Tradition: The Case of the Charitēsion,” Archiv für Religionsgeschichte 16.1 (2015): 31–50, p. 41–42 and 45.

Oerter, Wolf, B. “Die koptischen Texte aus der Sammlung Papyri Wessely Pragenses Stand Juli 2001. Recherchen zum koptischen Schrifttum in Prager Museen und Sammlungen II”. In Akten des 23. Internationalen Papyrologenkongress, Wien, 22.-28. Juli 2001, edited by Bernhard Palme. Papyrologica Vindobonensia 1. Wien: ÖAW Verlag 2007, p. 483-487.

Mihálykó, Ágnes. “Jesus Christ before me, Iao Sabaoth Adonai behind me: A Prayer for Good Luck and Protection”, on Papyrus Stories: Everyday Stories from the Ancient Past (2020), online at https://papyrus-stories.com/2020/11/18/jesus-christ-before-me-iao-sabaoth-adonai-behind-me-a-prayer-for-good-luck-and-protection/

Trismegistos ID:

64512
102066

 PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

Christian 21

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

36
Bélanger Sarrazin: question mark icon Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes”

180

 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

1035

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

39

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

MPS (4/3/2019); EL (21/6/2019); MPS (27/5/2020); EL (31/8/2020); MPS (22/3/2021); MPS (26/10/2021); KD (16/9/2024)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M445," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m445. Accessed on 29/04/2025

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