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KYPRIANOS M837

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

PGM CXIXa-b
SM 82
Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana PL II 52

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

Magical (formulary)

Contents:

Original Use:

1. Ro ll. 1-7: Document

Re-use:

2. Fr. A vo l. 1: Love spell/dream-sending ritual (?)
3. Fr. A vo ll. 2-3: Love spell through touch
4. Fr. A vo ll. 4-6: Love spell
5. Fr. A vo ll. 7-9: Subjection ritual
6. Fr. A vo ll. 10-11: For favour/victory (?)
7. Fr. B vo ll. 1-3: For healing wounds
8. Fr. B vo l. 4: Unclear
9. Fr. B vo l. 5: Against daily and nightly fever (healing)

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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:

Daniel & Maltomini (1992: 167)

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

Published

Image: http://www.psi-online.it/images/orig/P.%20Laur.%20III%2057%20r.jpg?1401531020

Form:

Sheet (?)

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 11.5 Width: 9 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Fr. A: 8 (W) x 8.5 (H); fr. B: 9 (W) x 3 (H). Dimensions given are minimum.

Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Fragmentary; two fragments.

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 (↓) (magical re-use). 1 column recto (→) (original use).

Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt (?)

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

Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana

Collection History:

No acquisition information.

Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 128
Collection website: http://www.psi-online.it/documents/plaur;3;57

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Daniel, Robert W., and Franco Maltomini. Supplementum Magicum. Vol. 2. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1992, p. 166-169, no. 82.

Pintaudi, Rosario. Dai Papiri della Biblioteca Medicea Lauenziana. Vol. 3. Florence: Libreria Gonnelli, 1979, no. 57.

Pintaudi, Rosario. “Mixtura papyrologica”, Analecta Papyrologica, XXVI (2014): 257-260. [documentary text]


Translations:

Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, p. 315, no. 119a-b.


General:

Trismegistos ID:

64047
653697

PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae

119a-b

SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum

82

GEMF: question mark icon Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) 38 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

06005.000

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 (15/5/2019); KD (24/9/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M837," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m837. Accessed on 05/05/2025

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