The Coptic Wizard's Hoard
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Issue Date
1994-10-01Author
Mirecki, Paul A.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Article
Article Version
Scholarly/refereed, publisher version
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Within the large collection of ancient manuscripts at the University of Michigan there is a group of Coptic papyri which appears to have been a hoard or library of ancient magical texts. Produced by five copyists sometime in the fourth through seventh centuries and originating from a now unknown location in Egypt, the collection was brought to the British Museum by Sir E. A. Wallis Budge in February 1921 for restoration by C. T. Lamacraft; in August of that year, it underwent philological examination by the Coptic lexicographer Walter E. Crum, and was later forwarded to the University of Michigan.
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Mirecki, Paul A. (1994). "The Coptic Wizard's Hoard." Harvard Theological Review, 87(4):435-60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0017816000030224
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