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KYPRIANOS M576

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

P. Mich. Inv. 1548

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

Magical (applied ?)
Documentary

Contents:

Original use:

1. Ro ll.1-15: List (Greek)

Re-use:

2. Vo. ll. 1-10: Applied (?) amulet against fever mentioning the story of the healing of Peter’s mother-in-law (Coptic).

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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Greek

Script(s):

Coptic
Greek

Dialect:
Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 501 – 900
Date notes:

Placeholder date as manuscript is unpublished and so undated. Text of original use looks ca. 601-700 CE (KD 2/4/2020)

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Unpublished.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: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-6386/1548r.tif

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 19 Width: 9.3 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Online Catalogue (19/11/2018).

Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Fragmentary, damaged at left-hand side. Right, top, and lower margins complete.

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):

Magical re-use consists of 1 column of 12 lines on verso. Original use is 15 surviving lines on the recto, written transversa charta.

Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt

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

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Ann Arbor, Michigan University, Library

Collection History:

Brought to the University in 1924 (Online Catalogue).

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 12
Collection website: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-6386/1548r.tif

Notes/Discussion:

http://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.6386

Verso: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-6387/1548v.tif

For text, cf. BM Or 6948 (KYP M334).

Bibiliography
Editions:
Translations:
General:

Trismegistos ID:

874222

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 (19/11/18); MPS (30/9/2019); KD (2/4/2020); MPS (26/8/2020); KD (24/9/2021)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M576," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m576. Accessed on 07/05/2025

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