The Coptic Wizard's Hoard

Bibliographic Data

ID20292013
AuthorsPaul Mirecki (University of Kansas, corresponding author)
Year1994
Volume87
Issue4
Pages435-460
Publication date1994-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHarvard Theological Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0017-8160 • E-ISSN: 1475-4517
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0017816000030224
OpenAlexW2116381492
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited24

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

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Hoard · Lexicography · Linguistics · Philology · Sociology · Wizard · African history and culture analysis · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Classics · Computer Science · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Philosophy

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