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KYPRIANOS M727

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

Pennsylvania Museum E 16396

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

Magical (unclear)
Contents:

1. Ro ll. ?-?: Images and magical names (?)
2. Ro ll. x+1-12 (?): 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. 301 – 1200
Date notes:

Placeholder date as manuscript is unpublished and so undated.
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Unpublished
Image:

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Parchment
Dimensions (cm): Height: 13 Width: 18 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Esitmate based on image (MPS 19/8/2020).
Folding pattern:

Twice(?) vertically and five(?) times horizontally?
State of preservation:

Complete. Slight damage to bottom-right corner.
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 (?).
Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt

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

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Collection History:

Acquired by the museum in 1911 (personal communication, Robert A. Kraft, 8/2/2019)
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 280
Collection website: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rak//ppenn/pictures/PPennPictures.html

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:
Translations:
General:

Trismegistos ID:

874264

 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 (19/3/2019); MPS (4/6/2019); MPS (19/8/2020)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M727," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m727. Accessed on 07/05/2025

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