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KYPRIANOS M577

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

P. Mich. Inv. 592

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

Magical (unclear ?)
Literary (homily)

Contents:

Original use:

1. pp. 1-4: De Passione 1, Pseudo-Cyril of Jerusalem (CC0114).

Re-use (palimspest):

2. p.2 ll. 1-13, p.3 ll. 1-14: Text of unclear nature mentioning Michael and Satan.

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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)

Script(s):

Coptic

Dialect:
Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 601 – 1200
Date notes:

The PAThs database lists the date of composition of the homily of Pseudo-Cyril as 601-800, so the text of re-use must be later than this (KD 2/4/2020).

Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Unpublished. Assigned to Markéta Preininger.

Image: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-4473/592v.tif

Form:

Codex

Material:

Parchment

Dimensions (cm): Height: 15.6 Width: 24.3 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Online Catalogue (19/11/2018).

Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Complete (?)

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

4

Pages/Columns (notes):

4 pages original, 2 pages re-use of 27 lines. Bifolio.

Hand:

Findspot:

Krokodilopolis (Medinet el-Fayum), Egypt

(TM places ID: 327)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Krokodilopolis (Medinet el-Fayum), Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 327)
Present Location:

Ann Arbor, Michigan University, Library

Collection History:

Collected by Dr. David L. Askren in Medinet-el-Fayoum in 1921 (Online Catalogue 19/11/2018).

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-4473/592r.tif

Notes/Discussion:

Recto and Verso in Col. Website and Col. Image respectively.
Also: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-5336/1

http://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.5336
http://papyri.info/apis/michigan.apis.4473

Bibiliography
Editions:
Translations:
General:

Husselman, Elinor M. “The Collection of Papyri”. In Coptic Texts in the University of Michigan Collection, edited by William H. Worrell. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1942, p. 19.


Trismegistos ID:

874223

PAThs: 1682
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); MPS (20/1/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M577," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m577. Accessed on 03/05/2025

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