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KYPRIANOS M544

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

Vienna, Nationalbibliothek G 2312
Stud. Pal. XX 294
Vienna, Nationalbibliothek VN 8032 (previously)

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

Magical (applied)
Literary (Biblical)
Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-10: Psalm LXX 90, Romans, Gospel of John with kharaktēres along the top (applied amulet for healing/protection).
See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

Greek
Script(s):

Coptic
Greek
Dialect:
Language/dialect notes:

Written in Greek with Coptic characters
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 401 – 600
Date notes:

5th-6th cent. (Jones 2016, 161); 6th-7th cent. (Wessely p. 411); 4th cent. (Heinrici 1903: p. 30).
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published
Image: https://digital.onb.ac.at/RepViewer/viewer.faces?doc=DOD_%2BZ232973001

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 6 Width: 14.9 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Col. website (17/9/2020).
Folding pattern:

1 horizontal, 8(?) vertical creases.
State of preservation:

Complete, some damage along folds.
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 (↓), 10 lines. Drawings on verso, perhaps from earlier use.
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:

Vienna, Nationalbibliothek
Collection History:

No acquisition information.
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 357
Collection website: https://search.onb.ac.at/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=ONB_alma21306188600003338&context=L&vid=ONB&lang=de_DE

Notes/Discussion:

Line count here includes kharaktēres.

Bibiliography
Editions:

Bormann, E. “Amulet mit Stellen der heiligen Schrift,” in Papyrus Erzherzog Rainer: Führer durch die Ausstellung, edited by J. Karabacek et al. Vienna: Holder, 1894, 124-125, no. 528.

Heinrici, Carl Friedrich Georg, Die Leipziger Papyrusfragmente der Psalmen (Beiträge zur Geschichte und Erklärung des Neuen Testaments 4), Leipzig, 1903, 30-32.

Henner, Forster, and Horak, Christliches mit Feder und Faden, 48, no. 38.

★ Jones, Brice C. New Testament texts on Greek Amulets. London: Bloomsbury, 2016, p. 161-167, no. 21.

Sanzo, Joseph E. Scriptural Incipits on Amulets from Late Antique Egypt Text, Typology, and Theory. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014, 113-115, no. 35.

Wessely, Carl (editor). Catalogus papyrorum Raineri, Series Graeca, pt. 1, Textus graeci papyrorum, qui in libro “Papyrus Erzherzog Rainer-Führerdurch die Ausstellung Wien 1894” descripti sunt, revised edition (Studien zur Palaeographie und Papyruskunde 20). Amsterdam: Verlag Adolf M. Hakkert, 1969, p. 141, no. 294.
Translations:
General:

Aland, Kurt. Repertorium der griechischen christlichen Papyri (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013), vol. 1, p. 337, var 13.

Chapa, Juan. “Su demoni e angeli: Il Salmo 90 nel suo contesto,” in I papiri letterari Cristiani: atti del Convegno internazionale di studi in memoria di Mario Naldini. Firenze, 10-11 giugno 2010 (Studi e Testi di Papirologia N.S. 13), edited by Guido Bastianini and Angelo Casanova (Florence: Instituto Papirologico “G. Vitelli”, 2011, p. 84-85, no. 11.

Froschauer, Harald, C. Gastgeber, and H. Harrauer, Ein Buch verändert die Welt. Älteste Zeugnisse der Heiligen Schrift aus der Zeit des frühen Christentums in Ägypten (Nilus 7), Vienna: Phoibos Verlag, 2003, p. 37.

Harrauer, H. with Ulrike Horak, “Papyri, Pergamente und Papiere als Zeugnisse des Alltags,” in Syrien. Von den Aposteln zu den Kalifen (Linzer Archäologische Forschungen 21), edited by E.M. Ruprechtsberger, Linz 1993, p. 365-389.

Henner, Jutta, Hans Förster, and Ulrike Horak. Christliches mit Feder und Faden: Christliches in Texten, Textilien und Alltagsgegenständen aus Ägypten ; Katalog zur Sonderausstellung im Papyrusmuseum der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek aus Anlass des 14. Internationalen Kongresses für Christliche Archäologie (Nilus 3). OVG, 1999, 48-49. no. 38.

Horak, Ulrike. Illuminierte Papyri, Pergamente und Papiere. Vol. I. Wien, Holzhausen, 1992, p. 248 ViP 219.

La’da, C. and A. Papathomas, “A Greek Papyrus Amulet from the Duke Collection with Biblical Excerpts,” Bulletin for the American Society of Papyrologists 41 (2004): p. 109, no. 23.

Rahlfs, A. Psalmi cum Odis (Septuaginta 10). Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1931, 15 no. 2031.

Rahlfs, A. and D. Fraenkel, Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften es Alten Testaments, 2004, p. 393, no. 2031.

Schefzyk, Jürgen (editor), Alles echt: Älteste Belege zur Bibel in Ägypten. Mainz am Rhein: Philipp Von Zabern Verlag, 2006, p. 38, 93, no. 16.

Wessely, Carl, “Griechische Abtheilung”, in Papyrus Erzherzog Rainer. Führer durch die Ausstellung, edited by J. Karabacek. Vienna: Selbstverlag der Sammlung, 1894, p. 124-125, no. 528.

Trismegistos ID:

62325

 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

195

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

59

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

KD (17/9/2020)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M544," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m544. Accessed on 07/05/2025

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