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KYPRIANOS M644

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

P. Moscow Copt. 88
St Petersburg, Private collection Golenischeff (no number)
Pushkin museum I.1.B.529

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. 1-15 (?) : Letter of Jesus to Abgar.
2. Vo (?): Unclear text.
See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Script(s):

Coptic
Dialect:

Sahidic
Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 501 – 900
Date notes:

TM (5/10/2018).
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published. New edition desirable.
Image:

Form:

Ostracon (limestone)
Material:

Ostracon (limestone)
Dimensions (cm): Height: 19 Width: 29 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Jernstedt 1959: p. 72; 21 x 20 in Turayev (1899: p. 436).
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Incomplete.
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, 12 lines.
Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt

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

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Moscow, Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
Collection History:

Previously in the St Petersburg, Private collection Golenischeff; present location likely Pushkin Museum.
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 234
Collection website: http://www.museum.ru/

Notes/Discussion:

Text on verso poorly preserved, not transcribed in editio princeps. Errors in Turayev (1899) noted in Jernstedt (1959).

Bibiliography
Editions:

Turayev, Boris A. “Коптскія острака коллекціи В.С. Голенищева.” Bulletin de l’Academie imperiale des sciences de St.-Petersbourg 10 (1899): 436-437, no. 2.

Jernstedt, Peter V. Коптские тексты государственного музея изобразительных искусств (P.MoscowCopt). Moscow: Издательство Академии наук СССР, 1959, p. 172-173, no. 88.
Translations:
General:

Bélanger Sarrazin, Roxanne. “Les appels au « Jésus guérisseur » dans les formules iatromagiques coptes”, in Études coptes XVI. Dix-huitième journée d’études (Bruxelles, 22-24 juin 2017) (Cahiers de la bibiothèque copte 23), edited by Anne Boud’hors, Esther Garel, Catherine Louis and Naïm Vanthieghem. Paris: Éditions de Boccard, 2020, p. 191-193.

Trismegistos ID:

112629

 PAThs: 6383
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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:

KD (5/10/2018); EL (14/6/2019); MPS (30/9/2019); MPS (14/1/2022)/ KD (29/5/2024)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M644," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m644. Accessed on 04/11/2025

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