KYP T-907

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KYPRIANOS T907

Manuscript:	M15
Sigla:	P. Mich. Inv. 599 + 594 + 603 + 596 + 598 + 597 + 595
Text no. Position of the text within the manuscript.	4
Coptic Scriptorium:
Date:	501 – 700

Text position:	p. 3 (P. Mich. Inv. 594, Ro) ll. 3-4
Type of text:	Healing of swelling (magical, formulary)

Original title:	ⲉⲧⲃⲉ ⲟⲩ̅ⲁ ⲉϥϣⲏϥⲉ
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:	http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2616/599r.tif & http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/apis/x-2616/599v.tif

Text:	Translation:
p. 3 (P. Mich. Inv. 594, Ro) → 3. [end of previous text] ⲉⲧⲃⲉ ⲟⲩ̅ⲁ ⲉϥϣⲏϥ- 4. ⲉ ⲧⲁⲩⲟⲥ ⲉϫⲛ̅ ⲟⲩⲙⲟⲟⲩ ⲛ̅ⲧⲱⲃⲉ ⲛ̅ⲅⲧⲥⲟϥ ⲁⲩⲱ ⲛ̅ⲅ̅ϫⲁⲕⲙⲉϥ	[3] For one who is swollen. [4] Recite it over some water ⟨from the month⟩ of Tobi and give it ⟨to him⟩ to drink and wash him.

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Apparatus:

4. ⲛ̅ⲅϫⲁⲕⲙⲉϥ i.e. Sahidic ⲛ̅⸗ⲅ-ϫⲁⲕⲙ⸗ϥ

Notes:

Parallel text: P. Mich. inv. 593, p. 6 ll. 5-7 (KYP M9, T865)

4. ⲟⲩⲙⲟⲟⲩ ⲛ̅ⲧⲱⲃⲉ “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).

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.

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