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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Greco-Egyptian magical formularies
    sub title: libraries, books, and individual recipes
  name:
    name part: Faraone, Christopher A.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Torallas Tovar, Sofía
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan)
    role:
      role term: publisher.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: miu
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xxviii, 534 pages) : illustrations.
  abstract: In Greco-Roman Egypt, recipes for magical undertaking, called magical formularies, commonly existed for love potions, curses, attempts to best business rivals--many of the same challenges that modern people might face. In The Greco-Egyptian Magical Formularies: Libraries, Books, and Individual Recipes, volume editors Christopher Faraone and Sofia Torallas Tovar present a series of essays by scholars involved in a multiyear project to reedit and translate the various magical handbooks that were inscribed in the Roman period in the Greek or Egyptian languages. For the first time, the material remains of these papyrus rolls and codices are closely examined, revealing important information about the production of books in Egypt, the scribal culture in which they were produced, and the traffic in single recipes copied from them. Especially important for historians of the book and the Christian Bible are new insights in the historical shift from roll to codex, complicated methods of inscribing the bilingual papyri (in which the Greek script is written left to right and the demotic script right to left), and the new realization that several of the longest extant handbooks are clearly compilations of two or more shorter handbooks, which may have come from different places. The essays also reexamine and rethink the idea that these handbooks came from the personal libraries of practicing magicians or temple scriptoria, in one case going so far as to suggest that two of the handbooks had literary pretensions of a sort and were designed to be read for pleasure rather than for quotidian use in making magical recipes.
  note: edited by Christopher A Faraone and Sofía Torallas Tovar.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-513) and indexes.
  subject:
    geographic code: f-ua---
  subject:
    topic: Magic, Egyptian
  subject:
    topic: Magic, Greek
  subject:
    topic: Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri)
  subject:
    topic: Egyptian language
    genre: Papyri, Demotic
  subject:
    geographic: Egypt
    topic: History
    temporal: Greco-Roman period, 332 B.C.-640 A.D
    genre: Sources
  classification: BF1591
  related item:
    title info:
      title: New texts from ancient cultures
  identifier: 9780472220786
  identifier: 0472220780
  identifier: 9780472133277
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: EYM
    record creation date: 220927
    record change date: 20221129150615.5
    record identifier: in00004605679
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng