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KYPRIANOS M702

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

P. Ryl. Copt. 106
Manchester, John Rylands Library Copt. 106

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

Medical (recipes)

Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-14: Medical recipe for healing an ache (? kôlah)
2. Ro ll. 15-29: Medical recipe for healing an ache (? kôlah)
3. Vo ll. 30-64: Medical recipe for healing unclear condition
4. Vo ll. 65-71: Medical recipe for healing fever

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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)

Script(s):

Coptic

Dialect:

Sahidic (non-standard)

Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 1001 – 1100
Date notes:

Richter 2014: p. 191.

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

Published, no full translation. New edition in progress by Anne Grons.

Image: https://luna.manchester.ac.uk/luna/servlet/s/w7colt

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Paper

Dimensions (cm): Height: 25 Width: 17 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Crum 1909: p. 55.

Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Complete; split into two fragments.

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. 29 lines recto, 42 verso.

Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt (?)

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

Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Manchester, John Rylands Library

Collection History:
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 218
Collection website: https://luna.manchester.ac.uk/luna/servlet/

Notes/Discussion:

Contains Arabic loanwords.

Bibiliography
Editions:

Crum, Walter E. Catalogue of the Coptic manuscripts in the collection of the John Rylands Library, Manchester. Manchester: University Press, 1909, p. 55-59, no. 106.


Translations:

Till, W.C. Die Arzneikunde der Kopten (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1951), p. 111-112, p. 131-132 text Ryl 2-5 (German).


General:

Richter, Tonio Sebastian. “Neue koptische medizinische Rezepte.” Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 141.2 (2014): p. 191.


Trismegistos ID:

111284

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 (21/11/2018); EL (26/3/2019); MPS (29/5/2019); MPS (20/10/2022); KD (10/11/2023)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M702," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m702. Accessed on 03/05/2025

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