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KYPRIANOS M489

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

P. Monts. Roca inv. 324

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

Magical (formulary)
Contents:

Original use

1. Coptic Literary text?

Re-ue:

1. Flesh side ll.1-27: Separation spell (?)
2. Hair side ll.1-46: Invocation of Artonias for unclear purposes.
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. 701 – 1000
Date notes:

Dating provisional.
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Archive name:
State of edition:

Unpublished; edition in progress by Korshi Dosoo.
Image:

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Parchment
Dimensions (cm): Height: 22 Width: 17.4 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Estimate based on photograph.
Folding pattern:

6 vertical creases, 3 horizontal creases (?).
State of preservation:

Complete. Pieces of parchment missing esp. in the middle, perhaps here previously folded.
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 recto, 27 lines (flesh side). 1 column verso, 46 lines (hair side).
Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt

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

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Montserrat, Abadia
Collection History:

Acquired by Ramón Roca-Puig in Egypt in the 1950s.
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 232
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:
Translations:
General:

Trismegistos ID:

874203

 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 (16/5/2019); EL (21/6/2019); MPS (16/9/2019); MPS (14/2/2020); MPS (28/8/2020)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M489," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m489. Accessed on 29/10/2025

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