| Manuscript: | M15 |
| Sigla: | P. Mich. Inv. 599 + 594 + 603 + 596 + 598 + 597 + 595 |
Text no. 
Position of the text within the manuscript. | 9 |
| Coptic Scriptorium: | |
| Date: | 501 – 700 |
| Text position: | p. 3 (P. Mich. Inv. 594, Ro) l. 9 |
| Type of text: | Healing from fever (magical, formulary) |
| Original title: | ⲉⲧⲃⲉ ⲟⲩ̅ⲁ ⲉϩⲏ̅ⲙ |
| 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: | 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) |
[9] For one who is feverish. Recite it over oil of the first fruits and anoint him. |
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| Apparatus: | 9. ⲉϩⲏ̅ⲙ i.e. Sahidic ⲉ⸗ϥ-ϩⲏⲙ | ⲛ̅ⲉϩ : ⲟⲩⲛⲉϩ Worrell | ⲛⲛⲁⲡⲁⲣⲭⲏ ⲛⲛⲁ perhaps corrected from ⲛⲁⲡ̣ i.e. Greek ἀπαρχή : ⲛⲁⲡⲁⲣⲭⲏ Worrell |
| Notes: | Parallel text: P. Mich. inv. 593, p. 6 ll. 15-16 (KYP M9, T870) 9. ⲛ̅ⲉϩ ⲛⲛⲁⲡⲁⲣⲭⲏ “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: | KD, MPS, RBS (23/7/2026) |
How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP T912: 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-912. Accessed on 10/10/2026For the "editor names", see the abbreviated names in the field "Editor", and to resolve the abbreviations, see the help page.