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KYPRIANOS M46

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P. Hermitage Copt. 56
St Petersburg, Hermitage Museum 18331

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

Liturgical (prayer)
Magical (applied) (?)
Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-5: Deacon’s call (diaconicon) for the sick from the anaphora of St. Mark, short version.
See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Script(s):

Coptic
Dialect:

Sahidic
Language/dialect notes:

See related texts for further notes.
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 1001 – 1100
Date notes:

Compare with P.Ryl.Copt. 20, 29 or MPR IV 18 (all three from lot identified by Delattre and Vanthieghem 2018) (ÁM 28/03/2018); 701-1000 (TM 13/12/2018))
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Archive name:
State of edition:

Published. New edition desirable.
Image:

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Paper
Dimensions (cm): Height: 5 Width: 10.2 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Jernstedt (1959: p. 136)
Folding pattern:

3 (?) horizontal and 4 (?) vertical folds.
State of preservation:

Framgentary, upper part of a sheet torn at the bottom.
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, 5 surviving lines. Palimpsest?
Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt

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

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

St Petersburg, Hermitage Museum
Collection History:

Formerly housed in the Academy of Science, St. Petersburg, now in the Hermitage Museum. (Collection Website 19/6/2019)
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 316
Collection website: http://papyri.info/apis/hermitage.apis.359

Notes/Discussion:

Some ink traces above the first line, may be palimpsest but this seems strange on paper (perhaps the ink is from from previous page (ÁM)) The text does not, however, seem to be reversed (EL).

Reused as amulet?

For content, compare Macomber, William F. “The Anaphora of Saint Mark According to the Kacmarcik Codex.” OCP 45 (1979): 80 and Brightman, F. E. Eastern Liturgies Being the Texts Original or Translated of the Principal Liturgies of the Church. Oxford: Clarendon, 1886, 166.

Bibiliography
Editions:

Jernstedt, Peter Viktorovich. Коптские тексты государственного Эрмитажа (P.Hermitage). Moskow-Leningrad: Izd-vo Akademii Nauk SSSR, 1959, p. 136-137, no. 56.
Translations:
General:

Trismegistos ID:

109320

 PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae 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 Bruyn-Dijkstra: question mark icon de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" TheDefix: question mark icon Thesaurus Defixionum To Zodion:
Edit History:

KD (13/12/2018); EL (25/3/2019); MPS (19/6/2019), ÁM (28/03/2020); EL (14/8/2020); KD (29/9/2021); KD (13/9/2022)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M46," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m46. Accessed on 04/05/2024

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