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The Hay Archive of Coptic Spells on Leather - A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Materiality of Magical Practice (Paperback)
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The Hay Archive of Coptic Spells on Leather - A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Materiality of Magical Practice (Paperback)
Series: British Museum Research Publications, 233
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The Hay archive of Coptic manuscripts consists of seven fragmentary
sheets of leather bearing spells for divination, protection,
healing, personal advancement, cursing and the satisfaction of
sexual desire. Purchased from the heir of the Scottish Egyptologist
and draughtsman, Robert Hay (1799–1863), the manuscripts arrived
at the British Museum in 1868. Since they were first published in
the 1930s, they were understood to be the work of a single copyist
writing around AD 600 in the Theban region of Upper Egypt. The
present volume has confirmed, nuanced or challenged these
assessments on the basis of scientific analysis and close study of
the manuscripts. Prompted by the urgent conservation needs of the
corpus, this study seeks to provide a model, integrated approach to
the publication of ancient texts as archaeological objects by
providing a full record of provenance and collection history;
scientific analysis; conservation approach and treatment; a new
complete edition and translation of the Coptic texts; and an
extended discussion of the cultural context of production. Written
on poorly processed calf, sheep and goat skin, the manuscripts were
copied by multiple non-professional writers in the 8th–9th
centuries. Employing a striking combination of ancient Egyptian,
Graeco-Roman, biblical and extra-biblical motifs, their contents
represent a Christian milieu making use of the mechanics of earlier
‘magical’ practice in a period well after the arrival of Islam.
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