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KYPRIANOS M513

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

P. Heid. Inv. Kopt. 564a

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

Magical (applied)

Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-11: Applied amulet to heal and protect Patrikou invoking the Three Hebrew Youths.

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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)

Script(s):

Coptic

Dialect:

Fayumic

Language/dialect notes:

See related text for further notes; Bélanger Sarrazin (2017: p. 17).

Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 601 – 800
Date notes:

7th or 8th century date suggested by Bélanger Sarrazin (2024: p. 81). 641-1200 according to TM (19/9/2018)

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

Published.

Image: http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~gv0/Papyri/K0564_Quecke/

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Parchment

Dimensions (cm): Height: 6.4 Width: 10.3 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Quecke (1963); Mößner & Nauerth (2015: p. 308); 10.2 x 6.3c m (Meyer & Smith 1999: p. 100)

Folding pattern:

4 even horizontal creases, might have been rolled.

State of preservation:

Incomplete, parts of the middle of the parchment are missing.

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, 11 lines.

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:

Heidelberg, Institut für Papyrologie

Collection History:

Acquired in 1896 by K. Reinhardt as part of a large number of papyri, parchments and wooden tablets, and sold 1897 to the University of Heidelberg (Seider 1964: p. 143-4. 168).

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 156
Collection website: http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/%7Egv0/Papyri/K0564_Quecke/K0564_Quecke.html

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Quecke, Hans. “Zwei koptische Amulette der Papyrussammlung der Universität Heidelberg.” Le Muséon 76 (1963): 255–265.


Translations:

Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 100, no. 53.

Pernigotti, Sergio. “La magia copta: I testi.” In Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt, edited by Hildegard Temporini and Wolfgang Haase, II.18. 5. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1995, 3685–3730, p. 3728, no. 40.


General:

Bélanger Sarrazin, Roxanne. “’Just as You Quenched the Fiery Furnace of Nebuchadnezzar, Also Quench Every Fever.’ The Three Holy Children in Coptic Magic.” Vigiliae Christianae 78 (2024): 58-86, esp. p. 62, 81.

Mößner, Tamara and Claudia Nauerth. “Koptische Text und ihre Bilder.” In Ägyptische Magie und ihre Umwelt, edited by Andrea Jördens, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2015, p. 308.

Seider, Richard. “Aus der Arbeit der Universitätsinstitute. Die Universitäts-Papyrussammlung.” Heidelberger Jahrbücher 8 (1964): 142-203.


Trismegistos ID:

98047

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

53

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

151

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:

MPS (19/9/2018); EL (21/6/2019); KD (22/1/2020); KD (15/2/2021); EL (24/2/2021); KD (3/10/2021); SVS (08/09/2022); KD (2/2/2024)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M513," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m513. Accessed on 19/05/2024

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