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KYPRIANOS M96

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

Strasbourg K 257

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

Magical (applied ?)
School exercise (?)
Contents:

Original use:

1. Ro: Text in Arabic (only one line survives)

Re-use:

2. Vo: Christ (ⲭⲥ), omega (ⲱ) and creature (? ⲥⲱⲛ = ζῷον) written out several times in columns. Applied amulet for healing/protection (?).
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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. 642 – 1200
Date notes:

Placeholder date as manuscript is unpublished and so undated, original use in Arabic shows it must be later than 642 CE.
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs.
Archive name:
State of edition:

Unpublished.
Image:

Form:

Sheet
Material:

Parchment
Dimensions (cm): Height: Width: Depth:
Dimensions (notes):
Folding pattern:

1 horizontal crease.
State of preservation:

Fragmentary, text of original use is incomplete, text of re-use is complete.
Pages/Columns: question mark icon Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.

4
Pages/Columns (notes):

Number of columns varies, difficult to state definitively; several text formations.
Hand:

Findspot:

Egypt

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

Egypt

(TM places ID: 49)
Present Location:

Strasbourg, Bibliothèque Nationale
Collection History:

No acquisition information.
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 322
Collection website:

Notes/Discussion:

Richter (2014: p. 110) compares this to Gr. 546.

Bibiliography
Editions:
Translations:
General:

Richter, Tonio Sebastian. “Magical Texts in the Papyrus Collection of the Université de Strasbourg.” In Coptica Argentoratensia (Strasbourg, 18-25 juil 2010) (CBCo 19), edited by A. Boud’hors, A. Delattre, C. Louis, T. S. Richter. Paris: Éditions de Boccard, 2014, p. 110.

Trismegistos ID:

874185

 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 (22/3/2019); MPS (3/7/2019); EL (1/8/2019); KD (9/4/2020); EL (17/8/2020)

How to cite:
Korshi Dosoo & Markéta Preininger (principal editors). "KYP M96," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m96. Accessed on 08/12/2025

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