By Jacco Dieleman
This booklet is an research into the field of creation and use of 2 comparable bilingual magical handbooks chanced on as a part of a bigger selection of magical and alchemical manuscripts round 1828 within the hills surrounding Luxor, Egypt. either handbooks, courting to the Roman interval, include an collection of recipes for magical rites within the Demotic and Greek language. The library which includes those handbooks is these days higher often called the Theban Magical Library. The booklet strains the social and cultural milieu of the composers, compilers and clients of the extant spells via a mixture of philology, sociolinguistics and cultural research. To anyone engaged on Greco-Roman Egypt, historic magic, and bilingualism this examine is of important value.
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52 It is evident that both sets encrypt the Greek alphabet, because the first set contains the corresponding Greek letter above each sign as a transcription key and the second set consists of 24 signs, the total number of signs of the Greek alphabet. 53 50 See on the development of the Coptic language and script out of ancient Egyptian: Daniel R. McBride, ‘The Development of Coptic: Late-Pagan Language of Synthesis in Egypt’ JSSEA 19 (1989) 89–111; Jan Quaegebeur, ‘De la préhistoire de l’écriture copte’ OLP 13 (1982) 125–136; David Frankfurter, Religion in Roman Egypt.
LondonLeiden and P. 13 Whatever the case was, the scribe wrote also the Greek glosses above the voces magicae in the Demotic spells and it is clear that he had initially difficulties in finding a suitable method to transcribe the Demotic names, which are written from right to left, in Greek script which is read in the opposite direction, from left to right. Janet H. Johnson has argued convincingly that he decided from line 15 of Demotic column IV* of P. 14 Since this method is persistently applied in the following columns and in P.
Introduction P. London 121 P. BM 10588 P. Louvre 3229 magical handbook magical handbook magical handbook 15 PGM VII PGM LXI/PDM lxi PDM Suppl. Upon their arrival in Europe the magical handbooks did not produce general enthusiasm among scholars of the day. C. 42 Most scholars, however, were not impressed by the find, since they regarded the texts to be the barbaric products of superstition and of a bastardised society in which not much was left of the standards and ideals of either classical Greek or pharaonic culture.