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KYPRIANOS M672

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

Vienna, Nationalbibliothek K. O. 00645 Pap
O. Crum ST 409
O. Vind. Copt. 5

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

Magical (applied ?) (?)
Religious (Biblical) (?)

Contents:

Ro ll. 1-8: Amulet (?) consisting of Psalm 144.12-13, with cryptograms and kharactēres.

See all texts in this manuscript.

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. 601 – 800
Date notes:

TM (6/11/2018)

Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published. Re-edition in progress by K. Dzwiza (Collection Website 23/1/2019)

Image: http://data.onb.ac.at/rep/102078D2

Form:

Ostracon (pottery)

Material:

Ostracon (pottery)

Dimensions (cm): Height: 16 Width: 12 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Collection Website (6/11/2018). 16:4.5 cm (Till 1960: p. 2)

Folding pattern:
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, 8 lines.

Hand:

informal sloping majuscule (DCLP)

Findspot:

Egypt

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

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Vienna, Nationalbibliothek

Collection History:

No acquisition information.

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 357
Collection website: http://data.onb.ac.at/rec/RZ00002763

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Crum, Walter Ewing. Short Texts from Coptic Ostraca and Papyri. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1921, p. 108, no. 409.

★ Till, W. C. Die koptischen Ostraka der Papyrussammlung der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek. Vienna, Kommisssionsverlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien: 1960, p. 2, no. 5.


Translations:
General:

Nagel, Peter. “Editionen koptischer Bibeltexte seit Till 1960.” Archiv für Papyrusforschung 35 (1989): 59.

Schüssler, Karlheinz. Biblia Coptica, die koptischen Bibeltexte. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 1998, vol. 1.3, p. 52.


Trismegistos ID:

108552

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:

KD (6/11/2018); EL (23/1/2019); MPS (2/10/2019); EL (28/7/2020); KD (29/9/2021)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M672," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m672. Accessed on 03/05/2025

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