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KYPRIANOS M66

Sigla:

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana 5645

Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical.	Magical (applied)
Contents:	1. Ro ll. 1-19: Applied curse against Apollo son of [X]
	See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):	Egyptian (Coptic)
Script(s):	Coptic
Dialect:	Sahidic
Language/dialect notes:	See related texts for further notes.
Date: Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE.	601 – 800
Date notes:	Preliminary estimate based on the hand (KD 30/3/2022); 5th-11th century TM (18/8/2020); TM previously 301-1200 (21/3/2019)
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:	Published. New edition desirable.
Image:

Form:	Rib
Material:	Bone (human, rib)

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Dimensions (notes):	No dimensions given in editions.
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:	Complete, broken into two pieces.
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.	1
Pages/Columns (notes):	1 column, 19 lines.
Hand:	Jacob, son of Euphemia

Findspot:	Dios Polis, Thebes East, Egypt (TM places ID: 576)
Place of purchase:	(TM places ID: )
Writingspot:	Dios Polis, Thebes East, Egypt (TM places ID: 576)
Present Location:	Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
Collection History:	Part of the old collection (“vecchio fondo”) of the museum, probably found in the Theban Necropolis (Astorre 1906: p. 141)
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript.	128
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

The instructions to speak are copied at the beginning, presumably from the formulary.

Bibiliography

Editions:	Kropp, Angelicus. Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte. Einleitung in Koptische Zaubertexte. Vol. 3. Bruxelles: Édition de la Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1930, p. 111, n. 1. Pellegrini, Astorre. “Piccoli testi copto-sa’îdici del Museo Archeologico di Firenze.” Sphinx 10 (1906): p. 141, 156-159, no. 21.
Translations:	Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 203-204, no. 97. Pernigotti, Sergio. “La magia copta: i testi.” In Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt II 18.5, edited by W. Hasse and H. Temporini. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1995, p. 3726, no. 33.
General:	Crum, Walter E. “La magie copte: nouveaux textes.” In Recueil d’études égyptologiques dédiées à la mémoire de Jean-François Champollion à l’occasion du centenaire de la lettre à M. Dacier relative à l’alphabet des hiéroglyphes phonétiques. Paris: Champion, 1922, p. 538. Diringer, David. The Alphabet. A Key to the History of Mankind (London: Hutchinson’s Scientific and Technical Publications, 1953), p. 468 (image).

Trismegistos ID:

99588

PAThs:

PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae		SM: Supplementum Magicum	GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming)	ACM: Ancient Christian Magic	97
Bélanger Sarrazin: Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes”	231	AKZ: Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte	CBd: Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database	Mert.-Pack: Mertens-Pack online database
Van H: van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires		Bruyn-Dijkstra: de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)"	TheDefix: Thesaurus Defixionum	To Zodion:

Edit History:

EL (21/3/2019); KD (21/3/2019); KD (17/6/2019); MPS (25/6/2019); KD (26/3/2021); KD (30/3/2022); KD (7/10/2024)

How to cite:

Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M66," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m66. Accessed on 07/12/2025

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