Title: A Coptic handbook of ritual power (P. Macq. I 1) /
Authors: Choat, Malcolm,; Gardner, Iain; Macquarie University.
Year: 2013
Subjects: Macquarie University. Catalogs.; Coptic magic Early works to 1800.; Incantations Early works to 1800.; Charms Early works to 1800.; Coptic manuscripts (Papyri) Australia Sydney (N.S.W.); Coptic language Texts.; Manuscripts (Papyri) Australia New South Wales.; Koptische handschriften.
Abstract: "This volume publishes a new Coptic handbook of ritual power, comprising a complete 20 page parchment codex from the second half of the first millennium AD. It consists of an invocation including both Christian and Gnostic elements, ritual instructions, and a list of twenty-seven spells to cure demonic possession, various ailments, the effects of magic, or to bring success in love and business. The codex is not only a substantial new addition to the corpus of magical texts from Egypt, but, in its opening invocation, also provides new evidence for Sethian Gnostic thought in Coptic texts."--