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KYPRIANOS M551

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

P. CtYBR inv. 1794 qua
Yale 1794 a + b + c

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

Magical (formulary)

Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-26 – Vo ll. 1-13: Formulary for invocations for revelation (divination).

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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. 601 – 800
Date notes:

APIS (27/8/2020)

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

Unpublished; edition forthcoming by Michael Zellmann-Rohrer.

Image: https://findit.library.yale.edu/catalog/digcoll:2759454

Form:

Rotulus (?)

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 23.1 Width: 13.2 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Dimensions given here represent minimum. Fragment A: 15.0 x 13.2. Fragment B: 2.8 x 9.2cm. Fragment C: 5.3 x 12.8 cm. Online Catalogue (5/2/2019). “Preserved in its full height” (Petersen 1964: p. 45), but there seem to be traces of a partial line at the bottom of the recto (KD 3/2/2020).

Folding pattern:

13 (?) vertical creases, perhaps rolled.

State of preservation:

Incomplete, 3 fragments.

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 each, recto and verso. 26 surviving lines recto, 13 total lines verso. Verso fragments B and C are blank.

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:

No acquisition information.

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 242
Collection website: https://findit.library.yale.edu/catalog/digcoll:2759454

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

http://papyri.info/apis/yale.apis.0017940000


Translations:
General:

Petersen, Theodore C. A Collection of Papyri. New York: H.P. Krause, 1964, p. 44-45, no. 56.


Trismegistos ID:

874207

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:

EL (29/3/2019); MPS (24/9/2019); KD (3/2/2020); MPS (27/8/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M551," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m551. Accessed on 07/05/2025

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