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KYPRIANOS M741

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

P. Heid. Inv. Kopt. 184
Heidelberg, Institut für Papyrologie P. Kopt. 561 (previous)

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

Magical (applied ?)

Contents:

1. Ro ll. x+1-11: Psalm LXX 90.11-16.

See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)

Script(s):

Coptic

Dialect:

Fayumic

Language/dialect notes:

Quecke (1979: p. 334); TM (29/3/2019); Bélanger Sarrazin (2017: p. 404). 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 – 700
Date notes:

7th century at the earliest (Quecke 1979: p. 333); TM (29/3/2019)

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

Published (collection website states it is unpublished 21/2/2019).

Image: https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/p_kopt_184

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 20 Width: 7 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

c. 20cm in height and 6-7cm in width (Quecke 1979: p. 333); Collection Website (29/3/2019)

Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Fragmentary, damage along top, left, and right, although bottom margin is preserved (two thirds of the text lost, so Quecke 1979: p. 333).

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 surviving lines.

Hand:

Findspot:

Middle Egypt, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 2800)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Middle Egypt, Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 2800)
Present Location:

Heidelberg, Institut für Papyrologie

Collection History:

Purchased by K. Reinhardt in 1897 (coll. website, 21/2/2019).

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 156
Collection website: https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/p_kopt_184

Notes/Discussion:

Quecke does not think the sheet was folded, but instead was hung in a house as a protective amulet (1979: p. 333)

Bibiliography
Editions:

Quecke, Hans. “Ein Faijumisches Fragment aus Ps 90 (91).” In Festschrift Elmar Edel, 12. März 1979, edited by Manfred Görg and Edgar Pusch. Bamberg: M. Görg, 1979, p. 332-337.


Translations:
General:

Trismegistos ID:

112398

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 (21/2/2019); EL (29/3/2019); MPS (17/6/2019); MPS (19/8/2020); EL (31/8/2020) (2/9/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M741," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m741. Accessed on 06/05/2025

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