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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.)