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KYPRIANOS M720

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Vienna, Nationalbibliothek K 07037 Pap

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

Unclear

Contents:

Original use:

1. Flesh side a-Hair side b: Unclear

Re-use:

2. Flesh side a-Hair side b: Unclear

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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)

Script(s):

Coptic

Dialect:
Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 1101 – 1200
Date notes:

Original use perhaps 9th-10th century, re-use perhaps 12th century (personal communication Alin Suciu, 11/6/2021). TM gives the date as possibly fourth century, but this is far too early. (4/1/2019)

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Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.

Image: http://data.onb.ac.at/rep/1021ADF9

Form:

Codex (?)

Material:

Parchment

Dimensions (cm): Height: 22.5 Width: 15.5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Till (1935: p. 203)

Folding pattern:

1 vertical crease (fold of the codex page)

State of preservation:

Fragmentary, damaged, torn and with holes. Palimpsest.

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

4

Pages/Columns (notes):

2 columns front and back: flesh side a, 23 lines; flesh side b, 16 lines; hair side a, 14 lines; hair side b, 18 lines. Sheet from a codex?

Hand:

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/RZ00004837

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

★ Till, Walter. “Zu den Wiener koptischen Zaubertexten.” Orientalia 4 (1935): 203-206, no. 9.


Translations:
General:

Stegemann, Viktor. Die koptischen Zaubertexte der Sammlung Papyrus Erzherzog Rainer in Wien. Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 1933-34 no. 1. Heidelberg: Carl Winters Universitätsbuchhandlung, 1934, p. 16, no. 9.


Trismegistos ID:

91402

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:

EL (4/1/2019); MPS (3/4/2019); EL (27/7/2020); KD (11/6/2021)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M720," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m720. Accessed on 16/05/2024

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