A Coptic handbook of ritual power (P. Macq. I 1)
By: [edited by] Malcolm Choat and Iain Gardner
Contributors: Macquarie University. Ancient Cultures Research Centre
Series: The Macquarie Papyri -- volume I; Macquarie papyri -- v. 1.
Publisher: Brepols
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Turnhout; NSW Australia; Ancient Cultures Research Centre, Macquarie University
Language: eng; cop
Number of pages: 131
ISBN-13: 9782503531700
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Coptic manuscripts (Papyri); 18.78 Afro-Asiatic languages: other; Charms; Ritual; Koptische handschriften; Literatur; Incantations; Early works to 1800; Koptisch; Besvärjelser; Koptiska handskrifter; Coptic magic; Ritualbuch
Other titles: P. Macq. I 1
Description: "The codex published here as P. Macq. I 1 is P. Macq. inv. 375, housed in the Museum of Ancient Cultures at Macquarie University, Sydney ... It is a complete twenty-page parchment codex, containing the handbook of a ritual practitioner. Typical of such handbooks, it starts with a lengthy series of invocations that culminate with drawings and words of power. These are followed by a number of prescriptions or spells to cure possession by spirits and various ailments, or to bring success in love and business ... There is also an evident Sethian stratum to the invocations, which can in substantial part be recovered."--Page [1].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Main text in Coptic with English translation; introduction, commentary and notes in English.