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KYPRIANOS M578

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

P. Duke inv. 526
formerly P. Miss. 93

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

Magical (applied ?)

Contents:

1. Ro: Kharaktēres and pseudo-script.

See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

[non-linguistic]

Script(s):

Coptic-derived (?)

Dialect:
Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 301 – 1200
Date notes:

Placeholder date as manuscript is unpublished and so undated.

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

Unpublished.

Image: https://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/scriptorium/papyrus/images/150dpi/526-at150.gif

Form:

Sheet (?)

Material:
Dimensions (cm): Height: 6.2 Width: 8.2 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

APIS (22/1/2019).

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.

1

Pages/Columns (notes):

1 column recto (→).

Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt

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

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Durham (NC), Duke University

Collection History:

No acquisition information.

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 121
Collection website: http://papyri.info/apis/duke.apis.30563330

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:
Translations:
General:

Trismegistos ID:

132026

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 (22/1/2019); MPS (30/9/2019); MPS (26/8/2020); MPS (22/3/2021); KD (14/10/2021)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M578," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m578. Accessed on 03/05/2025

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