Prayer of Cyprian (generic record)
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- Prayer of Cyprian (General record)
General description
As a converted magician, a number of magical prayers are attributed to Cyprian of Antioch↗ . The Prayer of Cyprian is the main prayer, known in Greek, Latin, Syriac, Armenian and Georgian versions, cp. Bausi 1998b and Simon 1936. Both Arabic and Ethiopic traditions have a long and a short recension of this prayer, see Ṣalot za-qǝddus Qoṗrǝyānos and Ṣalot za-Qoṗrǝyānos ba-za-yǝśǝʿʿǝr manāfǝst rǝkusān wa-ba-za-yāwaggǝz sayṭānāt.
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- BnF Éthiopien 57Prayer of Mary on Bārtos, Names of Jesus Christ, Hymn to Mary, Prayer of St Cyprian4
- Fols 59r–85r Aeth. 21Bartos, Prayer of Cyprian, Prayers of Mary, Māḥtam ʾaḥātam, Wǝddāse wa-gǝnāy
- Fols 71r–80v
- Fols 17–36
- Fols 8r–12v Aeth. 7Magic formulas, Prayer of Cyprian, Hymn to Mary, Hymn to the Cross
- Fols 62–64 BL Additional 16247ʿAwda nagaśt, Ṣalot baʾǝnta maftǝḥe śǝrāy, Text on the twelve signs of the zodiac, Maṣḥafa maqdǝma kaśāte mǝśṭir, various prayers and magic formulas
Work of the literatures of Ethiopia and Eritrea
Secondary Bibliography
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Bausi, A. 2003. ‘Cyprian of Antioch’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, I (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003), 841a–842a.
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Bausi, A. 1998. ‘L’Epistola 70 di Cipriano di Cartagine in versione etiopica’, Aethiopica, 1 (1998), 101–130.
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Simon, J. 1936. ‘Review of Bilabel - Grothmann: Griechische, koptische und arabische Texte zur Religion und religiösen Literatur in Ägyptens Spätzeit’, Orientalia, 5 (1936), 152–160.
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Strelcyn, S. 1955. Prières magiques éthiopiennes pour délier les charmes (maftǝḥe šǝrāy), <Rocznik orientalistyczny>, 18 (Warszawa: Państwowe wydawnictwo naukowe, 1955). page XLIX-L
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Alessandro Bausi, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, Dorothea Reule, ʻPrayer of Cyprian (generic record)ʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 30.3.2017) https://betamasaheft.eu/works/LIT2179Prayer [Accessed: 2024-05-04+02:00]
Revisions of the data
- Dorothea Reule Dorothea Reule: Added keywords on 30.3.2017
- Dorothea Reule Dorothea Reule: Added informations on 9.8.2016
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Pietro Maria Liuzzo: Created file from google spreadsheet on 21.3.2016
- Eugenia Sokolinski Eugenia Sokolinski: CREATED: text record on 9.2.2016
Attributions of the contents
Pietro Maria Liuzzo, contributor
Eugenia Sokolinski, contributor
Dorothea Reule, contributor