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KYPRIANOS M750

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PGM XIb
London, British Library Pap 147

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

Magical (formulary)

Contents:

1. Ro ll. ?: Healing spell (?)
2. Ro ll. ?: Healing spell for bleeding
4. Ro ll. 1-5; Trick (paignion) to make guests at a party appear to have donkey snouts.

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Language(s):

Greek

Script(s):

Greek

Dialect:
Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 201 – 300
Date notes:

TM (9/3/209); 2nd or 3rd century (Kenyon 1898: p. xiv).

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Archive name:
State of edition:

Partially published.

Image: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=papyrus_147_f001r

Form:

Sheet

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 14.5 Width: 12.5 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Collection website (25/9/2020); Preisendanz 1974: p. 56.

Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Incomplete (?); Fragment (Kenyon 1898: p. xiv); right side is missing.

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 (→), 16 lines and triangular image on bottom.

Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt

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

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

London, British Library

Collection History:

Acquired on 2 February 1891. Purchased as part of a lot of Papyri 139-176 from the Reverend Greville John Chester (Collection website 25/9/2020).

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 192
Collection website: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Papyrus_147

Notes/Discussion:

First four recipes not published by Preisendanz or Betz, but edited in GEMF.

Bibiliography
Editions:

Preisendanz, Karl, and Henrichs, Albert. Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die Griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol. 2. Stuttgart: Teubner, 1974, p. 56, no. 11b.


Translations:

Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, p. 151, no. PGM 11b.


General:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1888-1893. London: British Museum 1894, p. 398.

Kenyon, Frederick G. Greek Papyri in the British Museum. Catalogue, with Texts. Vol. 2. London: British Museum 1898, p. xiv, no. CXLVII (description).


Trismegistos ID:

64086
28007

PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

11b

SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum GEMF: question mark icon Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) 33 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 (9/3/209); MPS (25/9/2020); KD (9/6/2022)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M750," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m750. Accessed on 06/05/2025

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