| Manuscript: | M9 |
| Sigla: | P. Mich. Inv. 593 |
Text no. 
Position of the text within the manuscript. | 17 |
| Coptic Scriptorium: | |
| Date: | 401 – 700 |
| Text position: | p.7 ll. 14-17 |
| Type of text: | Healing from gout (magical, formulary) |
| Original title: | ⲉⲧⲃⲉ ⲡⲉⲧⲟ̅ ⲙ̅ⲡⲟⲧⲁⲕⲣⲁⲙ̣̅ ⲛⲛⲁⲑⲣⲟⲛ |
| Original title (translated): | For the one who has gout in the joints |
| Conventional title: | For the one who has gout in the joints |
| 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. 7 (→) 14. [preceding text] ⲉⲧⲃⲉ ⲡⲉⲧⲟ̅ |
[14] For the one who has [15] gout in the joints. Recite [16] it over some ibis blood and [17] some wine, and rub them ⟨with the mixture⟩. |
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| Apparatus: | 15. ⲡⲟⲧⲁⲕⲣⲁⲙ̣̅ i.e. Greek ποδάγρα : ⲡⲟⲧⲁⲕⲣⲁ Worrell | ⲛⲁⲑⲣⲟⲛ i.e. Greek ἄρθρον : ⲛⲛⲁⲑⲣⲟⲛ Worrell |
| Notes: | Parallel text: P. Mich. inv. 594 ro ll. 16-17 (KYP M15; KYP T920) 15. ποδάγρα “gout” is described as a disease of the joints by Greek medical writers, e.g., in Hippocrates, On Affections 31, Prophetic II, 8; Galen, Method of Medicine XI, 803K-804K; cf. Byl 1988. It appears as ⲡⲟⲧⲁⲕ̅ⲣ̅ in C.Pharm.Copt. 32 (KYP M941) l. 250. In Greek magical and pharmacological prescriptions, we find titles such as πρὸς ποδάγραν (“for gout”), in, for example, P. Mich. inv. 1455 (SB XIV 12141) ro ll. 3-4; P. Mich inv. 136 (MYP M128; KYP T1384) p. 2 l. 10. Perhaps here the Greek accusative was preserved in the Coptic text and we should read ⲙ̅ⲡⲟⲧⲁⲕⲣⲁⲛ (with the final ⲙ miscopied from ⲛ). |
| Bibliography: |
Byl, Simon. “Rheumatism and Gout in the Corpus Hippocraticum.” L’Antiquité Classique 57 (1988): 89-102. |
| 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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[Editor names]. "KYP T878: For the one who has gout in the joints," 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-878. 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.