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KYPRIANOS M736

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

Cambridge UL T-S K24.21

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

Magical (unclear ?)
Liturgical text (?)

Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-11: Bilingual Greek-Coptic hymn, perhaps modified to serve as healing text
2. Vo: A few lines of illegible (Coptic?) text

See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

Greek
Egyptian (Coptic)

Script(s):

Greek
Coptic

Dialect:

Bohairic (?)

Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 901 – 1200
Date notes:

Preliminary estimate; Hand seems 10th century at earliest (KD 20/2/2019); 501-1800 (Collection website 20/2/2019).

Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. KYP A21
Archive name: Cairo Genizah
State of edition:

Unpublished.

Image: https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-TS-K-00024-00021/1

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Paper

Dimensions (cm): Height: 16 Width: 13.3 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Collection website (26/3/2019).

Folding pattern:

1 vertical fold (?).

State of preservation:

Complete, slight damage on borders and smudging.

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, 11 lines.

Hand:

Sloping, largely bilinear with some quadrilinear letters, trimodal, regular

Findspot:

Genizah of the Ben Ezra Synagogue, Cairo, Egypt

(TM places ID: 389)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Genizah of the Ben Ezra Synagogue, Cairo, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 389)
Present Location:

Cambridge, University Library

Collection History:

Donated in 1898 by Solomon Schechter and his patron Charles Taylor as part of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection (Collection website 20/2/2019).

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 79
Collection website: https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-TS-K-00024-00021/1

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:
Translations:
General:

Trismegistos ID:

874267

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 (20/2/2019); EL (26/3/2019); MPS (11/06/2019); MPS (19/8/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M736," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m736. Accessed on 07/05/2025

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