KYP M57

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KYPRIANOS M57

Sigla:

P. Hermitage Copt. 67
P. Herm. Copt. 67
The Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences, call. no. A 186, inv. no. 706

Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical.	Magical (formulary ?)
Contents:	1. Ro ll. 1-11- Vo ll. 5-10: Charm for healing fever. 2. Vo ll. 1-4: Arabic letter (?), untranscribed
	See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):	Egyptian (Coptic) Arabic
Script(s):	Coptic Arabic
Dialect:	Sahidic
Language/dialect notes:	See related texts for further notes.
Date: Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE.	901 – 1000
Date notes:	Jernstedt (1959: p. 149); TM (26/9/2018); 901-1100 (Bélanger Sarrazin 2017: p. 408)
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:	Published.
Image:

Form:	Sheet
Material:	Paper

Dimensions (cm):

Height: 8.5

Width: 4.9

Depth:

Dimensions (notes):	Kalchenko/van der Vliet 2022: p. 212; Jernstedt: 8.3 x 5 (1959: p. 149).
Folding pattern:	Folded without clear pattern (Kalchenko/van der Vliet 2022: p. 212).
State of preservation:	Fragmentary.
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.	2
Pages/Columns (notes):	1 column recto, 1 column verso. 11 lines recto, 10 lines verso.
Hand:

Findspot:	Egypt (TM places ID: 49)
Place of purchase:	(TM places ID: )
Writingspot:	Egypt (TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:	Russia, St Petersburg, Institute of Oriental Studies
Collection History:	Belonged to the private collection of Nikolay P. Likhachev (visited Egypt in 1908, when he likely bought the document in Cairo). Although it was edited by Jernstedt as part of the Hermitage collection, it belongs to the Oriental Institute of the Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg. Likhachev could also have bought the item from the Kalebdijan brothers in Paris (Kalchenko/van der Vliet 2022: p. 210-212).
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript.	919
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Image published in Kalchenko/van der Vliet 2022: p. 213.

Bibiliography

Editions:	Jernstedt, Peter Viktorovich. Коптские тексты государственного Эрмитажа (P.Hermitage). Moskow-Leningrad: Izd-vo Akademii Nauk SSSR, 1959, p. 149-150, no. 67. Kalchenko, Evgenia, and Jacques van der Vliet. “’The Burning Months of the Year’. A Coptic Charm against Fever in Double Transmission”. Journal of Coptic Studies 24 (2022): 210-216.
Translations:
General:	Bélanger Sarrazin, Roxanne. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes.” Archiv für Papyrusforschung no. 63.2 (2017): 367–408.

Trismegistos ID:

109330

PAThs:

PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae		SM: Supplementum Magicum	GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming)	ACM: Ancient Christian Magic
Bélanger Sarrazin: Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes”	298	AKZ: Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte	CBd: Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database	Mert.-Pack: Mertens-Pack online database
Van H: van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires		Bruyn-Dijkstra: de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)"	TheDefix: Thesaurus Defixionum	To Zodion:

Edit History:

MPS (26/9/2018); EL (22/3/2019); KD (5/9/2019); EL (14/8/2020); KD (6/9/2022); MPS (6/9/2022); MPS (26/9/2022); KD (26/2/2024)

How to cite:

Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M57," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m57. Accessed on 05/05/2024

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