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KYPRIANOS M552

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

Pierpont Morgan Library MS M.662A.9c

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

Magical (applied ?)
Contents:

Origina use:

1. Ro: Unclear
Re-use:

2. Ro ll. 1-27: Applied amulet (?), perhaps for favour; cf. Yale inv. 1793.
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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Script(s):

Coptic
Dialect:

Sahidic
Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 301 – 1200
Date notes:

Placeholder date as manuscript is unpublished and so undated.
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Unpublished; Edition in preparation by Michael Zellmann-Rohrer.
Image:

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Parchment
Dimensions (cm): Height: 12.6 Width: 14.2 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Collection website (25/4/2019)
Folding pattern:

9 (?) vertical creases, number of horizontal creases unclear.
State of preservation:

Complete. Palimpsest, the erased text is Greek (unidentified); faded, soiled (Depuydt 1993, 537)
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 (re-use), 27 lines. 1 column recto (original use).
Hand:

Upright, with cursive features; with 4 stroke ⲙ wide ⲉ, ⲟ, ⲥ and short ⲣ, ⲩ, and ϥ

Findspot:

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Place of purchase:

Cairo, Egypt

(TM places ID: 2740)
Writingspot:

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

New York, Pierpont Morgan Library
Collection History:

Purchased by J. P. Morgan in 1920. Part of a lot purchased ca. 1920 from the Cairo dealer Maurice Nahman by Francis Willey Kelsey. Later brought to Rome by Kelsey in the beginning of 1920 and purchased by Henri Hyvernat on behalf of J. P. Morgan (Col. website 27/8/2020).
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 250
Collection website: https://www.themorgan.org/manuscript/351280

Notes/Discussion:

Anthropmorphic Figure

Bibiliography
Editions:
Translations:
General:

Depuydt, Leo. Catalogue of Coptic Manuscripts in the Pierpont Morgan Library. Leuven, 1993, vol. I, no. 303.

Trismegistos ID:

874208

 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:

MPS (25/4/2019); EL (14/6/2019); KD (4/2/2020); MPS (27/8/2020); JS (24/6/2022)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M552," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m552. Accessed on 07/05/2025

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