KYP T-865

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KYPRIANOS T865

Manuscript:	M9
Sigla:	P. Mich. Inv. 593
Text no. Position of the text within the manuscript.	4
Coptic Scriptorium:
Date:	401 – 700

Text position:	p. 6 ll. 5-7
Type of text:	Healing of swelling (magical, formulary)

Original title:	ⲉⲧⲃⲉ ⲟ̣[ⲩⲁ] ⲉ̣[ϥ]ϣⲏϥⲉ
Original title (translated):	For one who is swollen
Conventional title:	For one who is swollen

Language:	Egyptian (Coptic)
Dialect:	Sahidic (non-standard)
Script:	Coptic
Image:	https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?id=S-APIS-X-2601%5D593_1R.TIF

Text:	Translation:
p. 6 (↓) 5. ⲉⲧⲃⲉ ⲟ̣[ⲩⲁ] ⲉ̣[ϥ]ϣⲏϥⲉ ⲧⲁⲩⲟⲩⲁⲥ ⲉϫⲛ̣̅ 6. ⲟⲩ[ⲙ]ⲟⲟⲩ ⲛ̣̅ⲧⲱⲃⲉ ⲛ̅ⲅⲧⲥⲟϥ ⲁⲩⲱ ⲛ̅ⲅ̣- 7. ϫⲁⲕⲙⲉϥ · [following text]	[5] For one who is swollen. Recite it over [6] some water ⟨from the month⟩ of Tobi and give it to drink and [7] wash him.

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Apparatus:

5. ⲟ̣[ⲩⲁ] ⲉ̣[ϥ]ϣⲏϥⲉ : translate “one who is swollen” Worrell, Mirecki 1994 & 1999 | ⲧⲁⲩⲟⲩⲁⲥ i.e. Sahidic ⲧⲁⲩⲟ⸗ⲥ
6–7. ⲧⲱⲃⲉ : translate “brick-water” Worrell, Mirecki 1994 | ⲛ̅ⲅ̣ϫⲁⲕⲙⲉϥ i.e. Sahidic ⲛ̅⸗ⲅ-ϫⲁⲕⲙ⸗ϥ

Notes:

Parallel text: P. Mich. inv. 594 ro ll. 3-4 (KYP M15, KYP T907)

6. ⲟⲩ[ⲙ]ⲟⲟⲩ ⲛ̣̅ⲧⲱⲃⲉ “water ⟨from the month⟩ of Tobi” Water blessed during the feast of Epiphany on 11th Tobi (19th January) in a ritual called the “Sanctification of the Waters” and used for baptisms (Basset 1915: 573–574; Drescher 1958: 60–61; Burmester 1967: 250–256; Grossmann 1991; Denysenko 2016). For other examples in the Coptic magical corpus, see BKU I 8 l. 33 (KYP M81, T148); BL Ms. Or. 6796 (2), (3) back ll. 104–105 (Kropp 1931: I no. H; KYP M118, T1300) ; P.CtYBR inv. 1791 front l. 20 (PCM I 17; KYP M284, T329).
7. ϫⲁⲕⲙⲉϥ The base of the initial ϫ extends into the left margin.

Bibliography:

Basset, René. “Le Synaxaire arabe Jacobite 3: Les mois de Toubeh et d’Amchir.” Patrologia Orientalis 11, no. 5 (1915): 505–825.

Burmester Oswald H.E. The Egyptian or Coptic Church: A Detailed Description of her Liturgical Services and the Rites and Ceremonies Observed in the Administration of her Sacraments. Cairo: The French Institute of Oriental Archaeology, 1967.

Denysenko Nicholas E. The Blessing of Waters and Epiphany: The Eastern Liturgical Tradition. London: Routledge, 2016

Drescher, James. “Two Coptic Magical Ingredients.” Bulletin de la Société d’Archéologie Copte 14 (1958): 59–61.

Grossmann “Epiphany Tanks.” In The Coptic Encyclopedia 3, edited by Aziz S. Atiya. New York: Macmillan, 1991.

Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 304–310, no. 133.

Mirecki, Paul. “The Coptic Wizard’s Hoard.” The Harvard Theological Review vol. 87 no. 4 (1994): 435–460.

Worrell, W. H. “A Coptic Wizard’s Hoard.” The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures 46 no. 4 (1930): 239–262.

Editor:

EL’s transcript from Worrell (29/1/20); preliminary translation by KD (31/1/2020); KD, MPS, RBS (23/7/2026)

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