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KYPRIANOS M775

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

PGM XLII
Vienna, Nationalbibliothek G 331 + Rainer 8

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

Magical (unclear)

Contents:

Original use:

1. Fragmentary protocol.

Re-use:

2. Vo ll. 1-10: Unclear; series of vowels, voces magicae and kharaktēres.

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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. 501 – 600
Date notes:

Preisendanz (1931: p. 179); TM (25/8/2020); Collection Website (18/3/2019).

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Archive name:
State of edition:

Published

Image: https://digital.onb.ac.at/RepViewer/viewer.faces?doc=DOD_%2BZ120292203&order=1&view=SINGLE

Form:

Sheet (?)

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 9.3 Width: 4.8 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Col. website (9/9/2020)

Folding pattern:

1 vertical crease.

State of preservation:

Fragment., broken on all sides.

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, verso (→?). 10 surviving lines and a drawing. Traces of protokollon recto.

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: https://search.onb.ac.at/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=ONB_alma21324536510003338&context=L&vid=ONB&lang=de_DE

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Preisendanz, Karl. Papyri Graecae Magicae: Die Griechischen Zauberpapyri. Vol. 2. Leipzig/Berlin: Teubner, 1931, p. 179, no. 42.

Wessely, Carl. Neue griechische Zauberpapyri. Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Classe 42.2 (1893): p. 70, no. R 7.


Translations:

Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992, p. 280, no. 42.


General:

Horak, Ulrike. Illuminierte Papyri, Pergamente und Papiere. Pegasus Oriens. Vol. 1. Wien: Holzhausen, 1992, p. 248, ViP 216.


Trismegistos ID:

65111

PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

42

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 (18/3/2019); ST (25/8/2020); KD (9/9/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M775," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m775. Accessed on 05/05/2025

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