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China --- Chine --- Epigrafie --- Epigraphie --- Iconografie --- Iconographie --- Syrie --- Syrië --- Inscriptions --- S03/0450 --- S13B/0300 --- China: Geography, description and travel--Silk route --- China: Christianity--Nestorianism (incl. Christianity before 17th century)

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Mani, a third-century preacher, healer and public sage from Sasanian Mesopotamia, lived at a pivotal time and place in the development of the major religions. He frequented the courts of the Persian Empire, debating with rivals from the Judaeo-Christian tradition, philosophers and gnostics, Zoroastrians from Iran and Buddhists from India. The community he founded spread from north Africa to south China and lasted for over a thousand years. Yet the genuine biography of its founder, his life and thought, was in good part lost until a series of spectacular discoveries have begun to transform our knowledge of Mani's crucial role in the spread of religious ideas and practices along the trade-routes of Eurasia. This book utilises the latest historical and textual research to examine how Mani was remembered by his followers, caricatured by his opponents, and has been invented and re-invented according to the vagaries of scholarly fashion.

Mani, --- Manes, --- Manichaeus, --- مانى --- Manichaeism --- Dualism (Religion) --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Christianity

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This volume publishes a new Coptic handbook of ritual power, comprising a complete 20 page parchment codex from the second half of the first millennium AD. It consists of an invocation including both Christian and Gnostic elements, ritual instructions, and a list of twenty-seven spells to cure demonic possession, various ailments, the effects of magic, or to bring success in love and business. The codex is not only a substantial new addition to the corpus of magical texts from Egypt, but, in its opening invocation, also provides new evidence for Sethian Gnostic thought in Coptic texts.

Coptic magic --- Early works to 1800 --- Incantations --- Charms --- Coptic manuscripts (Papyri) --- Australia --- Sydney (N.S.W.) --- Coptic language --- Manuscripts (Papyri) --- Koptische handschriften. --- Macquarie University. --- Coptic manuscripts --- Manuscrits coptes --- Magie copte --- Coptic magic - Early works to 1800 --- Incantations - Early works to 1800 --- Charms - Early works to 1800 --- Coptic manuscripts (Papyri) - Australia - Sydney (N.S.W.)

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Volume 2 of the series "Manichäische Handschriften" presents a critical edition of the remains of Mani's Letters as preserved in Berlin P.15998, together with pages now housed in Warsaw. The Coptic text is provided with an English translation, and the volume includes an introduction to the codex, its history and selected photographs of the papyrus. A link to the latest multispectral images will be given.