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KYPRIANOS M944

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

Berlin P. 3262
SB Kopt. II 1043

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

Medical (recipes)
Contents:

1. Ro ll. 1-8: Medical recipe.
2. Ro l. 9: Name of scribe.
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Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Script(s):

Coptic
Dialect:

Fayumic
Language/dialect notes:
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 601 – 800
Date notes:

Richter 2014: p. 190; 501-800 (Hasitzka 2004: 135)
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Published.
Image:

Form:

Sheet (?)
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 10 Width: 10 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Stern 1885 p. 41.
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Complete.
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 with 9 lines.
Hand:

Findspot:

Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt

(TM places ID: 332)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Arsinoites (Fayum), Egypt

(TM places ID: 332)
Present Location:

Berlin, Staatliche Museen
Collection History:

G. Travers, German consul in Cairo, acquired a number of fragments from the Fayum between 1877-1879, which he sent to the Egyptian Museum in Berlin. This manuscript belonged to this collection (Stern 1885: p. 23).
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Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

Hasitzka, Monika R. M. Koptisches Sammelbuch. Vol. 2. Vienna: Verlag Brüder Hollinek, 2004 (=SB Kopt II, MPER XXIII.2), p. 135-136, no. 1043.

Stern, Ludwig. “Faijumische Papyri im ägyptischen Museum zu Berlin”. Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 23 (1885): p. 41, no 11.
Translations:
General:

Ägypten Schätze aus dem Wüstensand. Kunst und Kultur der Christen am Nil, Wiesbaden, 1996, no. 283.

Beltz, Walter. Katalog der koptischen Handschriften, Archiv 26, 1978, 91, no. I 522.

Buschhausen, H., U. Horak, and H. Harrauer, Der Lebenskreis der Kopten. Dokumente, Textilien, Funde, Ausgrabungen. Katalog zur Ausstellung im Prunksaal der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek (MPER N.S. XXV). Wien: 1995, p. 280-281, no. 300.

Richter, Tonio Sebastian. “Neue koptische medizinische Rezepte”, Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 141.2 (2014): 190, no. 19.

Trismegistos ID:

85321

 PAThs:
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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 (19/3/2019); MPS (14/10/2019); MPS (22/9/2022); MPS (23/9/2022)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief editors). "KYP M944," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m944. Accessed on 07/05/2024

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