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KYPRIANOS M600

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

Sorbonne inv. 2490 a, b
Sorbonne 2524

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

Magical (applied ?)
School exercise (?)
Contents:

Original use:

1. pp. 1, 8, 14, 23: Letter

Re-use:

2. p. 2; p. 7; p. 11-13; p. 24: Writing exercise (?)
3. p. 24; p. 26 (?): Psalm 64.1b-5
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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Script(s):

Coptic
Dialect:

Sahidic
Language/dialect notes:

TM (21/8/2020)
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 501 – 800
Date notes:

Date from M. Pezin (1990: 131); TM (21/8/2020).
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published
Image:

Form:

Codex
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 5 Width: 5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Pezin 1990: 131.
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Only pages 1, 2, 7, 8, 11-14, 23-26 survive, with minor damage.
Pages/Columns: question mark icon Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.

28
Pages/Columns (notes):

2 quires. Quire 1 contains pages 1-8, quire 2 contains pages 9-28. 3 bifolios. Lines per page 7-10. 1 column per page.
Hand:

Findspot:

Antinoopolis (El-Sheikh Ibada), Egypt (?)

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

Egypt

(TM places ID: 2774)
Present Location:

Paris, Sorbonne, Institut de Papyrologie
Collection History:

P. Sorbonne inv. 2490 a, b purchased by Raymond Weill in 1909-1910 (Pezin 1990: p. 131). P. Sorbonne inv. 2542 purchased by P. Jouguet in 1918-1919 in Cairo (M. Pezin 1990: p. 131).
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 275
Collection website: http://www.papyrologie.paris-sorbonne.fr/

Notes/Discussion:

Three double leaves of Coptic codex interpreted by Pezin as an amulet (Pezin 1990: p. 131).

Bibiliography
Editions:

Pezin, Michel. “Sociétés urbaines en Egypte et Soudan.” Cahier de recherches de l’Institut de papyrologie et d’Egyptologie de Lille 12 (1990): 131-133; pl. 10.
Translations:
General:

Trismegistos ID:

107909

 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:

MPS (7/9/2018); EL (29/3/2019); MPS (21/8/2020)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M600," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m600. Accessed on 03/05/2025

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