Magical handbook in Coptic (P.Duk.inv. 460)

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Catalogue Record

Title: Magical handbook, [not before 400]
Subject: Magic --Egypt --Handbooks, manuals, etc. --30 B.C.-640
	A.D.
	Magic, Coptic --Handbooks, manuals, etc. --30 B.C.-640
	A.D.
	Magic, Ancient --Handbooks, manuals, etc. --30 B.C.-640
	A.D.
	Sexual disorders --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Ink --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
	Ointments --30 B.C.-640 A.D.        
	Subliterary papyri --Egypt --30 B.C.-640 A.D.
Material: 1 item : papyrus, mounted in glass, top part is broken
	off ; 24 cm.
Note: Actual dimensions of item are 23.5 x 15.0 cm.
	26 lines.
	Written across the fibers on the recto in an unpractised
	hand.
	Small lower margin; left margin of 1 cm.; small right
	margin.
	P.Duk.inv. 460 was formerly P.Miss. 26.
	Papyrus magical handbook from Egypt. Has recipes for
	sexual and social problems. Each recipe is numbered.
	Recipes 42-47 are preserved. Recipes are relatively
	simple, using ink and ointment.
	In Coptic.
	Descriptive database available in repository.     

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