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KYPRIANOS M572

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

Collège de France 1

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

Magical (formulary)

Contents:

Original Use:

Coptic literary text.

Re-use:

pp. 1-16: Magico-medical (healing) recipes

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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)

Script(s):

Coptic

Dialect:

Sahidic

Language/dialect notes:

Fayoumic as well as Assiut influences (Pezin 988: p. 23).

Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 1025 – 1045
Date notes:

Manuscript 3 dated by colophon to 27th of Mesore 427 (=20 August 1036).

Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. KYP A27
Archive name: Collège de France Coptic Magical Archive
State of edition:

Unpublished; edition in progress by Korshi Dosoo

Image:

Form:

Codex

Material:

Parchment

Dimensions (cm): Height: 17 Width: 14 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Pezin (1983: p. 23).

Folding pattern:

Codex

State of preservation:
Pages/Columns: question mark icon Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.

16

Pages/Columns (notes):

Consists of two individual “codices” (=quires?) joined together (16 pages = 3 feuillets + 5 feuillets) (Penzin 1983: p. 23).

Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt

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

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Collège de France, Paris

Collection History:

Donated to former Bibliothèque d’histoire des religions (now Institut d’histoire des christianismes orientaux) by Mme. de la Rochefoucauld in 1978, had them from her Egyptian family members; thence given by Prof. Antoine Guillaumont (at the time chair of “Christianisme et gnose”), and in charge of the library, gave them to Michel Pezin (d. 27 may 2005) (Boud’hors and Tardieu 2006: p. 16).

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Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:
Translations:
General:

Boud’hors, Anne, and Michel Tardieu. “Retour des parchemins coptes au Collège de France.” La Lettre du Collège de France 18 (December 2006): p. 16.

Pezin, Michel. “Les manuscrits coptes inédits du Collège de France.” Écritures et traditions dans la littérature copte. Louvain: Peeters, 1983, p. 23-26.


Trismegistos ID:

874220

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:

KD (24/10/2018); EL (29/3/2019); MPS (25/9/2019); MPS (26/8/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M572," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m572. Accessed on 07/05/2025

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