It has been a busy year for the Coptic Magical Formularies project. We have been working hard towards the publication of the second volume of Papyri Copticae Magicae. We estimate that this will be about four hundred pages long, and consist of three major archives – the British Library Portfolio, the Michigan Coptic ‘Wizard’s Hoard’, and the Collège de France Coptic magical archive. These archives give us an excellent range of perspectives on what different types of magical handbooks looked like, and the ways in which their copyists and users produced and interacted with them. We hope that the full draft of the volume will be finished in 2027, with…
