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KYPRIANOS M593

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

P.CtYBR inv. 1862

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.1-14: Unclear, invocation.

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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 – 800
Date notes:

Collection website (19/3/2019)

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

Unpublished. Assigned to Markéta Preininger

Image: https://findit.library.yale.edu/catalog/digcoll:2759771

Form:

Rotulus

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 14 Width: 17.2 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Dimensions of 1862: A: 5.7 x 16.7, B: 8.3 x 17.2 (Collection website 25/8/2020)

Folding pattern:

5 horizontal creases.

State of preservation:

Incomplete. 4 (?) fragments, torn along their folds.

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, 14 lines (↓); frg. 1 contains 6 lines, fgr. 2 contains 8 lines. Fragments of 1794 are not available online, but if they are similar in size to those of 1862, this implies that the document is a rotulus.

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 19/3/2019).

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 242
Collection website: https://findit.library.yale.edu/catalog/digcoll:2759771

Notes/Discussion:

Hand seems different from that of 1794 a-c (KD 3/2/2020).

Bibiliography
Editions:
Translations:
General:

Petersen, Theodore C. A Collection of Papyri,. New York: H.P. Kraus, 1964, p. 44, 75. [As reported by collection website, but the image on p. 44 is of P. CtYBR inv. 1794 qua, consisting of fragments a-c (KD 3/2/2020)]

MacCoull, Leslie S. B. “Coptic Papyri in the Beinecke Collection at Yale University.” In Proceedings of the XIV International Congress of Papyrologists, Oxford, 24-31 July 1974. Graeco-Roman Memoirs, vol. 61. London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1975, p. 218.


Trismegistos ID:

874233

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 (19/3/2019); MPS (2/5/2019); KD (3/2/2020); MPS (25/8/2020); MPS (12/10/2020); MPS (31/1/2023)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M593," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m593. Accessed on 03/05/2025

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