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KYPRIANOS M470

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P. Ryl. Copt. 104
P. Rylands Copt. 104

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

Magical (formulary)
Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-3: Recipe for sickness
2. Ro ll. 4-6: Healing recipe
3. Ro ll. 7-8: Healing recipe
4. Ro ll. 8-18: Prayer for protection from venomous creatures
5. Ro ll. 19-24: Healing recipe for ague and fever
6. Vo ll. 1-2: Healing recipe
7. Vo ll. 3-16: Prayer for protection
8. Vo ll. 17-26: Healing recipe (?)
See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Script(s):

Coptic
Dialect:
Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 1001 – 1200
Date notes:

1001-1200 (Collection Website 26/3/2019); 801-1300 (TM 26/3/2019).
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Archive name:
State of edition:

Partial transcription; new edition desirable.
Image: https://luna.manchester.ac.uk/luna/servlet/detail/ManchesterDev~93~3~55399~100563:Charms-&-recipes?qvq=q:Coptic%20104&mi=0&trs=5

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Paper
Dimensions (cm): Height: 19 Width: 14 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Crum 1909: p. 53.
Folding pattern:

4 vertical folds, 2 horizontal folds.
Folded once horizontally, twice vertically.
State of preservation:

Complete. Damaged on top left corner.
Pages/Columns: question mark icon Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.

2
Pages/Columns (notes):

1 column each recto and verso. 24 lines recto. 26 lines verso. Verso at 190 degrees to recto.
Hand:

P. Ryl. Copt. 104 Hand

Findspot:

Egypt

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

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Manchester, John Rylands Library
Collection History:

Acquired by Mrs. Rylands from James Lindsay, the 26th Earl of Crawford in 1901. The absence of a second number in Crum 1909 suggests that they were acquired after 1868, when Alexander Lindsay, the 25th Earl of Crawford, had his collection catalogued by J.M. Rodwell. It may therefore have been purchased by James Lindsay in 1898 from dealers in Cairo (Crum 1909: p. vii).
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 218
Collection website: https://luna.manchester.ac.uk/luna/servlet/detail/ManchesterDev~93~3~55399~100563:Charms-&-recipes?qvq=q:Coptic%20104&mi=0&trs=5

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Crum, Walter E. Catalogue of the Coptic Manuscripts in the Collection of the John Rylands Library. Manchester. Manchester: University Press, 1909, p. 53-55, no. 104.
Translations:

Kropp, Angelicus. Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte. Übersetzungen und Anmerkungen. Vol. 2. Brussels: Édition de la Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1931, p. 68-69, p. 212-213, nos. 19, 51, 52 (German).

Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 128, no. 68.
General:

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. 151, no. 14.

Pernigotti, Sergio. Testi della Magia Copta. Imola: Editrice La Mandragora, 2000, pp. 64-65, no. 34. (partial translation)

Sanzo, Joseph E. Scriptural Incipits on Amulets from Late Antique Egypt Text, Typology, and Theory. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014, 85-86, no. 9.

Trismegistos ID:

98059

 		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

68
Bélanger Sarrazin: question mark icon Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes”

217

 AKZ: question mark icon Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte

2.19, 2.51, 2.52

 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 (17/10/2018); EL (26/3/2019); MPS (8/4/2019); MPS (16/9/2019); MPS (1/9/2020); KD (15/11/2022); SG (20/07/2025)

How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP M470," 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-m470. Accessed on 27/10/2026
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