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KYPRIANOS M945

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SB Kopt. I 6
Vienna, Nationalbibliothek K 5595

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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: question mark icon 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).

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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: question mark icon 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: question mark icon 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: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae 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 (19/3/2019); KD (20/3/2019); MPS (5/3/2020); MPS (23/9/2023)


How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo, Edward O.D. Love & Markéta Preininger (chief 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 08/05/2024

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