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KYPRIANOS M591

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

P. CtYBR inv. 1797

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

Magical (unclear) (?)

Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-9 – Vo l. 1: Incomprehensible text and horse drawings

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Language(s):

[non-linguistic]

Script(s):

Coptic (?)

Dialect:
Language/dialect notes:

No linguistic content.

Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 501 – 700
Date notes:

Online Catalogue (4/2/2019)

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

Published.

Image: http://findit.library.yale.edu/iiif/universal_viewer?oid=15518098&page=1&stream_id=jp2&page=1#page/1/mode/1up

Form:

Sheet (?)

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 7 Width: 8.4 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Online Catalogue (4/2/2019).

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.

2

Pages/Columns (notes):

1 column recto, 9 lines; 1 column verso, 1 line.

Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt

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

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library

Collection History:

Acquired in 1964 (Collection Website 4/2/2019).

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 242
Collection website: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/digcoll/2759466

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Petersen, Theodore C. A Collection of Papyri. New York: H. P. Kraus, 1964, p. 46-47, no. 59.

Parássoglou, George M. “Artificial Scripts and Magical Papyri.” Studia Papyrologica 13 (1974): p. 59-60.


Translations:
General:

Trismegistos ID:

874136

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 (4/2/2019); MPS (30/9/2019); KD (25/10/2019); MPS (9/9/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M591," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m591. Accessed on 03/05/2025

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