Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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Collège de France 1 |
| Category:
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 |
| Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
| Script(s): | Coptic |
| Dialect: | Sahidic |
| Language/dialect notes: | Fayoumic as well as Assiut influences (Pezin 988: p. 23). |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
1005 – 1045 |
| Date notes: | Manuscript 2 (M573) in the same hand dated by colophon to 1023 CE. |
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Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
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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| State of edition: | Unpublished; edition in progress by Korshi Dosoo |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:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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16 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | Consists of two individual “codices” (=quires?) joined together (16 pages = 3 feuillets + 5 feuillets) (Pezin 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, who had inherited 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). |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
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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. |
| Trismegistos ID: |
874220 |
PAThs: |
| PGM:
Papyri Gracae Magicae
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SM:
Supplementum Magicum
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GEMF:
Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming)
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ACM:
Ancient Christian Magic
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| Bélanger Sarrazin:
Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” |
AKZ:
Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte |
CBd:
Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database |
Mert.-Pack:
Mertens-Pack online database |
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| 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: | KD (24/10/2018); EL (29/3/2019); MPS (25/9/2019); MPS (26/8/2020); KD (21/1/2025); KD (27/1/2026) |
How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP M572," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, Korshi Dosoo, Markéta Preininger, & Roxanne Bélanger Sarrazin (principal editors), www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m572. Accessed on 27/10/2026For the "editor names", see the abbreviated names in the field "Edit History", and to resolve the abbreviations, see the help page.