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KYPRIANOS M604

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

Crum MSS 23.9
Crum xxiii_2_9
Crum xxiii.2.9

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

Magical (formulary)
Contents:

1. p. 1 ll. 1-7: Invocation for angels to stand with speaker on journey mentioning glory (variant of Mary in Bartos ?).
2. p.1 ll. 8-15: Title of prayer of Mary the Ever-Virgin
3. p. 2 ll. 1-17: Adjuration containing several voces magicae.
4. p. 3 ll. 1-3: Unclear text.
5. p. 3 ll. 4-9: Invocation for favour.
6. p. 3 ll. 10-12: Unclear.
See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Greek
Script(s):

Coptic
Dialect:

Sahidic (non-standard)
Language/dialect notes:

See related texts for further notes.
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 901 – 1100
Date notes:

Palaeographical dating by Love 2020-2023: 10-11.
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Codex
Material:

Parchment
Dimensions (cm): Height: 9 Width: 16.2 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Dimensions maximum, width 16-16.2 (Love 2020-2023).
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Fragmentary. Paper mount stuck on the left-hand side of the flesh-side; Several instances of damage.
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):

Bifolio with 4 pages of which three inscribed. The order of the pages is unclear, but the fact that the left hand of the flesh side is blank suggests that this was the last page, so the right side should be the first, followed by the left and then the right sides of the hair side. Our pages 1-3 thus correspond to FSR, HSL, and HSR respectively in Love 2020-2023.
Hand:

Crum Parchment Hands 1 & 2

Findspot:

Egypt

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

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Oxford, Griffith Institute
Collection History:

Found among “5 paper fragments” labelled “magical” sent by Petrie to Crum in 1897 (Love 2020-2023: 5).
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 659
Collection website: http://archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/varia-parchment-and-papyri

Notes/Discussion:

As noted by Love (2020-2023: 7-8) the text of p. 1 seems to begin in the middle of a formula, so that the surviving text was likely preceded by at least one bifolio. The relationship between the following texts is also unclear; the first-person invocation for angels to stand with the speaker in text 1 is reminiscent of similar passages in the Prayer of Mary ‘In Bartos’ (e.g. P. Lond. Copt. 368 p. 13 l. 1 (KYP M117; KYP T99)), and so text 2 may be the end title to Text 1. Text 3 is in as Love 2020-2023 as Coptic, but may be rather Greek, e.g., ll. 2-3: τῶν πονηρῶν (?).

Bibiliography
Editions:

Love. Edward O. D. “Discovery in the Griffith Institute Archive.” Enchoria 37 (2020-2023): 5-24, Tafel 3, 4 [images].

Love, Edward O. D. The Structure and Context of Coptic Magical Texts: What can a discovery in the Griffith Institute Archive reveal about Magic and Magicians in Late Antique and early Islamic Egypt?, unpublished Undergraduate thesis, 2013.
Translations:
General:

Trismegistos ID:

874237

 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 (17/9/2018); MPS (30/9/2019); MPS (25/8/2020); EL (1/9/2020); MPS (12/10/2023); KD (2/2/2024)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M604," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m604. Accessed on 03/11/2025

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