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KYPRIANOS M900

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

SM 91
P. Laur. IV 149
Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana PL III 508

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. 1-4: Invocation to Iao Adonai (purpose unclear).
2. Ro ll. 5-8: Unclear (paignia?).

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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. 301 – 400
Date notes:

TM (4/12/2020); Daniel & Maltomini 1992: p. 202.

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.%20IV%20149%20r.jpg?1401531071

Form:

Sheet (?)

Material:

Papyrus

Dimensions (cm): Height: 6.8 Width: 5.9 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Collection website (4/12/2020); 5.9 x 7 cm (Daniel & Maltomini 1992: p. 202)

Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Incomplete; fragmentary, very damaged.

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 (→), 8 lines.

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:
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;4;149

Notes/Discussion:

Palaeographic comparison with P.Herm. Rees 5 (ca. 325 A.D.) in E.G. Turner, “Greek Manuscripts of the Ancient World”, 2nd ed. rev. and P.J. Parsons, London, 1987, p. 118, table 70. (Collection webiste 4/12/2020).

Bibiliography
Editions:

Daniel, Robert W., and Franco Maltomini. Supplementum Magicum. Vol. 2. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1992, p. 202-203, no. 91.

Pintaudi, Rosario. Dai papiri della Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana. Vol. 4. Firenze: Gonnelli, 1983, no. 149.


Translations:
General:

Trismegistos ID:

64422

PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum

91

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 (18/5/2019); MPS (4/12/2020)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M900," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m900. Accessed on 01/11/2024

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