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KYPRIANOS M664

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

P. Moscow Copt. 33
Inv. no. I.1.б 688
GIC no. ИГ-4705
State Inv. No. 13270179

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

Magical (formulary ?)
Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-11: Curse invoking scorpion
2. Vo ll. 1-4: Copy of formula on recto, curse invoking scorpion (red ink)
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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
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:

501-700 (Collection Website), but this is too early for paper (KD 22/6/2020).
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published. No published image. New edition desirable.
Image:

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Paper
Dimensions (cm): Height: 11 Width: 10.5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Collection Website (16/6/2020); 11.8 x 10.5 cm: Dimensions not specified as height or width in Jernstedt (1959), but given number of lines it seems likely that it was taller than wide.
Folding pattern:

Horizontal creases, number unclear.
State of preservation:

Fragmentary, damaged.
Pages/Columns: question mark icon Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.

2
Pages/Columns (notes):

1 column each, recto and verso, recto 11 lines, verso 4 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:

Coming from the collection of V.S. Golenishchev and given to the A.S. Pushkin State Museum of Visual Arts (former: Fine Arts Museum of the Emperor Alexander III.) in 1911 (correspondence with Pushkin Museum 17/10/2022)
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:

Invocation of scorpion to bring heat and cold – could refer to the symptoms of disease (fever) or of love (often conceptualised as fever).

Bibiliography
Editions:

★ Jernstedt, P. Коптские тексты государственного музея изобразительных искусств (P. Moscow Copt.) (Издательство Академии наук СССР, 1959), p. 81-82, no. 33.
Translations:
General:

Trismegistos ID:

874152

 		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:

KD (17/10/2018); EL (14/6/2019); MPS (2/10/2019); KD (22/6/2020); Team (22/6/2020); KD (14/9/2021); SVS (17/10/2022)

How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP M664," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, Korshi Dosoo, Markéta Preininger, & Roxanne Bélanger Sarrazin (principal editors), www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m664. Accessed on 13/09/2026
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