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KYPRIANOS M64

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

Naqlun N. 45/95

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

Magical (applied)

Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-4: Applied curse to humiliate, destroy and cast down man named Biktōr.

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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)

Script(s):

Coptic
Cipher (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. 451 – 500
Date notes:

Hermitage was inhabited during the second half of the 5th century CE (van der Vliet 2000: p. 319)

Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. KYP A5
Archive name: Naqlun Hermitage Magical Archive
State of edition:

Published.

Image:

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Parchment

Dimensions (cm): Height: 4 Width: 43 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Height varies from 4 cm (at left) to 2 cm (at right).

Folding pattern:

Several (?) vertical creases.

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, 4 lines.

Hand:

Upright, bilinear, unimodular, informal, irregular

Findspot:

Hermitage 4, Naqlun, Egypt

(TM places ID: 1418)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Hermitage 4, Naqlun, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 1418)
Present Location:

Naqlun, Monastery of the Archangel Gabriel

Collection History:

Found in situ.

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 1333
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Name Biktōr written in cipher.

Bibiliography
Editions:

van der Vliet, Jacques. “Les Anges du Soleil”. Études Coptes 7 (2000): 319-337.


Translations:
General:

Trismegistos ID:

108435

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”

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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 5/3/2019; KD (21/3/2019); EL (1/8/2019); EL (14/8/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M64," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m64. Accessed on 29/03/2024

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