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KYPRIANOS M945

Sigla:

SB Kopt. I 6
Vienna, Nationalbibliothek K 5595

Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical.	Medical (recipes)
Contents:	1. Ro ll. 1-3: Medical recipe 2. Ro ll. 4-7: Medical recipe 3. Ro ll. 8-16: For spleen 4. Ro ll. 17-27: Medical recipe 5. Ro ll. 28-30: Healing of the mouth (?) 6. Ro ll. 31-32: Medical recipe 7. Ro ll. 33-36: Medical recipe 8. Vo ll. 1-3: Medical recipe 9. Vo ll. 4-6: Medical recipe 10. Vo ll. 7-10: Medical recipe 11. Vo ll. 11-13: Medical recipe 12. Vo ll. 14-17: Medical recipe 13. Vo ll. 18: Medical recipe 14. Vo ll. 19-22: Medical recipe 15. Vo ll. 23-24: Healing of the mouth (?) 16. Vo ll. 25-28: Medical recipe 17. Vo ll. 29-33: Medical recipe 18. Vo ll. 34-35: Kollyrium (?)
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Language(s):	Egyptian (Coptic)
Script(s):	Coptic
Dialect:
Language/dialect notes:
Date: Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE.	501 – 700
Date notes:	Richter 2014: p. 190; 601-700 (Hasitzka 1993: p. 5).
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:	Published.
Image:	http://data.onb.ac.at/dtl/2169146

Form:	Rotulus
Material:	Papyrus

Dimensions (cm):

Height: 28

Width: 8.5

Depth:

Dimensions (notes):	Collection website (14/10/2019); Till 1951: p. 70
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:	Fragmentary; left and right margins survive in places.
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.	2
Pages/Columns (notes):	1 column each, recto (→) and verso. Kollesis on longer side of left edge (Till 1951: p. 70).
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:
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript.	357
Collection website:	http://data.onb.ac.at/rec/RZ00003327

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography

Editions:	Hasitzka, Monica R. M. Koptisches Sammelbuch. Vol. I. (MPER n.s. XXIII/1) (SBKopt I) Vienna: 1993: no. 6 Till, Walter C. “Eine koptische Rezeptensammlung”. Le Muséon 64 (1951): 69-81.
Translations:	Till, W.C. Die Arzneikunde der Kopten (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1951), p. 129-130, no. KW 4-21 (German).
General:	Buschhausen, H., Horak, U., Harrauer, H. Der Lebenskreis der Kopten. Dokumente, Textilien, Funde, Ausgrabungen. Katalog zur Ausstellung im Prunksaal der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek. Vienna, Hollinek in Kommission: 1995 (MPER N.S.), p. 280-281, no. 300. Froschauer, Harald, and Cornelia E. Römer (editors). Zwischen Magie und Wissenschaft. Ärzte und Heilkunst in den Papyri aus Ägypten. Wien: Phoibos Verlag, 2009, p. 107, no. 36. Richter, Tonio Sebastian. “Neue koptische medizinische Rezepte.” Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 141.2 (2014): p. 190, no. 13.

Trismegistos ID:

101353

PAThs:

PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae	SM: Supplementum Magicum	GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming)	ACM: Ancient Christian Magic
Bélanger Sarrazin: Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes”	AKZ: Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte	CBd: Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database	Mert.-Pack: Mertens-Pack online database
Van H: van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires	Bruyn-Dijkstra: de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)"	TheDefix: Thesaurus Defixionum	To Zodion:

Edit History:

KD (19/3/2019); KD (20/3/2019); MPS (5/3/2020); MPS (23/9/2023)

How to cite:

Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M945," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m945. Accessed on 05/11/2025

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