| Manuscript: | M9 |
| Sigla: | P. Mich. Inv. 593 |
Text no. 
Position of the text within the manuscript. | 9 |
| Coptic Scriptorium: | |
| Date: | 401 – 700 |
| Text position: | p. 6 ll. 15-16 |
| Type of text: | Healing from fever (magical, formulary) |
| Original title: | [ⲉⲧⲃ]ⲉ ⲟⲩ[ⲁ̣ ⲉ]ϥ̣ϩⲏ̣ⲙ︦ |
| Original title (translated): | For one who is feverish |
| Conventional title: | For one who is feverish |
| 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 (↓) 15. [ⲉⲧⲃ]ⲉ ⲟⲩ[ⲁ̣ ⲉ]ϥ̣ϩⲏ̣ⲙ︦ ⲧⲁⲩⲟⲥ ⲉϫⲛ︦ ⲟⲩ- |
[15] For one who is feverish. Recite it over some [16] oil of [the first fruits] and anoint him. |
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| Apparatus: | 16. ⲁ̣[ⲡⲁⲣⲭⲏ] i.e. Greek ἀπαρχή : translate “first-pressed” Meyer/Smith, Mirecki, Worrell |
| Notes: | Parallel text: P. Mich. inv. 594 ro l. 9 (KYP M15, KYP T912) 16. ⲛ̣ⲉ̣ϩ̣ ⲛ̣ⲁ̣[ⲡⲁⲣⲭⲏ] “oil of the first fruits” The first fruits are the first products of the harvest. According to canonical collections, first fruits offerings (typically of oil, grain, and wine) were to be taken to the church and blessed by the bishop and were used for the production of the communion bread and wine, as well as for the care of the sick; cf. PCM I, p. 476-77. For oil of the first fruits in the Coptic magical corpus, see e.g., P.Heid.inv.Kopt. 686 (PCM I 26; KYP M166) p. 16 ll. 7, 13; Leiden F 1964/4.14 (PCM I 37; KYP M21) back l. 12; P. Mich. inv. 593 (KYP M9) p. 6 l. 17 – p. 7 l. 1 (KYP T871), p. 9 l. 8 (KYP T886); P. Mich. inv. 594 (KYP M15) ro l. 15 (KYP T913), vo l. 6 (KYP T928). |
| Bibliography: |
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. |
| Editor: | EL’s transcript from Worrell (29/1/20); preliminary translation by KD (31/1/2020); KD, MPS, RBS (23/7/2026) |
How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP T870: For one who is feverish," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, Korshi Dosoo, Markéta Preininger, & Roxanne Bélanger Sarrazin (principal editors), www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/text/kyp-t-870. Accessed on 11/10/2026For the "editor names", see the abbreviated names in the field "Editor", and to resolve the abbreviations, see the help page.