Description
Book SynopsisPresents essays by scholars involved in a project to reedit and translate the various magical handbooks that were inscribed in the Roman period in the Greek or Egyptian languages. These papyrus rolls and codices reveal important information about the production of books in Egypt, scribal culture, and the traffic in single recipes copied from them.
Table of Contents
- Introduction (Faraone and Torallas Tovar)
- Alphabetical List of Contributors
- Concordances
- Libraries, Codices, and Rolls:
- 1) Korshi Dosoo and SofÍa Torallas Tovar: “Anatomy of the Magical Archive”
- 2) Korshi Dosoo and SofÍa Torallas Tovar: “Roll vs. Codex: The Format of the Magical Handbook”
- 3) Alberto Nodar: “The Paleography and Dating of the Magical Formularies from Roman Egypt”
- Compositional and Redactional Patterns:
- 4) Lynn R. LiDonnici: “Compositional Patterns in the Paris Magical Codex (GEMF 57 = PGM IV)”
- 5) Korshi Dosoo: “The Composition of the Demotic Magical Papyrus of London and Leiden (GEMF 16 = PGM/PDM XIV)”
- 6) Richard Gordon and Rachel Yuen-Collingridge: “GEMF 60 (PGM XIII): A Study of Material, Scribal, and Compositional Issues”
- Distribution of Texts and Their History:
- 7) Richard Gordon and Raquel MartÍn HernÁndez: “GEMF 74 (PGM VII): Reconstructing the Textual Tradition”
- 8) Panagiota Sarischouli: “GEMF 15 (= PGM/PDM XII): Production and Use of a Bilingual Magical Formulary”
- Individual Recipes:
- 9) Christopher A. Faraone: “Two Composite Recipes in GEMF 57 (= PGM IV) and How They Grew”
- 10) Richard Gordon: “The Rationale of Multi-purpose Praxeis in the Formulary Tradition”
- 11) Christopher A. Faraone: “The Traffic in Magical Spells: Single-Sheet Formularies as Prompts for Oral Performance”
- Abbreviations and Bibliography
