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KYPRIANOS M477

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

Köln Inv. 851
SM 1 34
ACM 11

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

Magical (applied)
Documentary (?)

Contents:

Original use:

1. Ro ll. 1-2: Documentary text (unpublished).

Re-use:

2. Vo ll.1-13: Fever amulet mentioning Jesus, the white wolf and Erichthonius for the healing/protection of Joseph.

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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:

Daniel & Maltomini (1990, p: 99), col. website (30/10/2020). 7th century: Meyer & Smith (1999, p: 37), Marganne (1981, p: 176).

Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.

Image: https://papyri.uni-koeln.de/stueck/DS_d1e228105/img/00851/preview/PK851v%5B1%5D.png

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 55 Width: 65 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

See collection website (7/2/2019)

Folding pattern:

5 horizontal and 3 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.

2

Pages/Columns (notes):

Recto (→) and verso (↓). 13 lines on verso (magical re-use). Verso written at 90 degrees to recto.

Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt (?)

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

Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Cologne, Papyrussammlung

Collection History:

No acquisition information.

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 172
Collection website: https://papyri.uni-koeln.de/stueck/tm65318

Notes/Discussion:

Cut from larger documentary text, a few lines of which survive on back (Daniel & Maltomini 1990, p: 99).

Bibiliography
Editions:

★ Daniel, Robert W., and Franco Maltomini. Supplementum Magicum. Vol. 1. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1990, pp. 99-101, no. 34.

Wortmann, Dierk. “Der weisse Wolf. Ein christliches Fieberamulett der Kölner Papyrussammlung.” Philologus 107 (1963): 157–161.


Translations:

Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 37, no. 11.


General:

Marganne, Marie-Hélène. Inventaire Analytique des Papyrus Grecs de Médecine. Genève: Librairie Droz, 1981, no. 98.

Preisendanz, Karl. “Zur Überlieferung der griechischen Zauberpapyri.” In Miscellanea critica: Aus Anlass des 150 jährigen Bestehens der Verlagsgesellschaft und des Graphischen Betriebes B. G. Teubner. Vol 1. Leipzig: Teubner, 1964, p. 214.

Treu, Kurt. “Referat. Christliche Papyri 1940-1967.” Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 19 (1969): 195.


Trismegistos ID:

65318

PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum

34

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

11

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

6056

Van H: question mark icon van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires

900

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

75

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

MPS (7/2/2019); ST (30/10/2020); ST (4/11/2020); KD (6/11/2020); KD (13/11/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M477," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m477. Accessed on 27/07/2024

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