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KYPRIANOS M516

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

P. CtYBR inv. 2124

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

Liturgical
Magical (applied) (?)

Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-14: Deacon’s call (diaconicon) for the intercession for the sick in the anaphora of St. Mark

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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)

Script(s):

Coptic

Dialect:

Bohairic

Language/dialect notes:

Meyer & Smith (1999: p. 357)

Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 1101 – 1400
Date notes:

TM (20/9/2018); Bélanger Sarrazin 2017: p. 379 states 10th to 11th century.

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

Published.

Image: https://findit.library.yale.edu/catalog/digcoll:2760561

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Paper

Dimensions (cm): Height: 10.9 Width: 8.4 Depth: .02
Dimensions (notes):

Meyer & Smith (1999: p. 104); Collection Website (19/3/2019).

Folding pattern:

3 horizontal creases and possibly 3 vertical creases (?).

State of preservation:

Complete. Slight damage.

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, 14 lines.

Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt

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

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library

Collection History:

Donated by Hans P. Kraus, December 1966.

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 242
Collection website: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/digcoll/2760561 & http://papyri.info/apis/yale.apis.0021240000

Notes/Discussion:

For liturgical parallel see 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:

Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, Appendix 5, p. 355–356.


Translations:

Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 104, no. 58.


General:

Trismegistos ID:

98052

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

58

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

10

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 20/9/2018; EL (19/3/2019); KD (23/1/2020), ÁM (28/03/2020); MPS (28/8/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M516," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m516. Accessed on 11/05/2025

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