MS Drower 43
{{Short description|Mandaic manuscript}}
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| Also known as = DC 43
| Type = Scroll
| Date = 1270 A.H. (1853 A.D.)
| Place of origin = Lower Mesopotamia
| Language(s) = Mandaic
| Scribe(s) = Yahya Bihram
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| Contents = Qmaha texts used for exorcism and magic
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MS Drower 43 (typically abbreviated as DC 43) is a Mandaic manuscript that contains over a dozen qmaha texts (i.e., amulet formulae) used for exorcism and protection against evil. It is part of the Drower Collection in the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford.{{cite book|last=Buckley|first=Jorunn Jacobsen|title=The great stem of souls: reconstructing Mandaean history|publisher=Gorgias Press|publication-place=Piscataway, N.J|year=2010|isbn=978-1-59333-621-9}}Morgenstern, Matthew (2013). [https://www.academia.edu/35447858/New_Manuscript_Sources_for_the_Study_of_Mandaic New Manuscript Sources for the Study of Mandaic]. In: V. Golinets et. al (eds.), Neue Beiträge zur Semitistik. Sechstes Treffen der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Semitistik in der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft vom 09.–11. Februar 2013 in Heidelberg. AOAT, Ugarit Verlag.
History
The manuscript was purchased by E. S. Drower from Sheikh Nejm bar Zahroon in 1939{{cite journal|last=Müller-Kessler|first=Christa|title=A Mandaic Incantation Against an Anonymous Dew Causing Fright: Drower Collection 20 and Its Variant 43 E|journal=ARAM|publisher=Peeters|issue=22|year=2010|isbn=9789042929579|pages=453–476}} and was copied in 1270 A.H. (1853 A.D.) in the marshlands in the territory of the Kit bin Sa'ad, by Yahia Bihram br Adam Yuhana. DC 23b contains a variant of one of the qmahas.{{cite web | editor-last=Morgenstern | editor-first=Matthew | website=The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon | url=https://cal.huc.edu/get_a_chapter.php?file=74709 | title=Qmaha ḏ-Gastata | access-date=2024-07-27}}
A brief study of the manuscript has been published by Bogdan Burtea (2005).Bogdan Burtea, 'Ein mandäischer magischer Text aus der Drower Collection', in B. Burtea, J. Tropper, H. Younansardaroud, Studia Semitica et Semitohamitica. Festschrift Rainer Voigt zum sechzigsten Geburtstag, (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 317. Münster, 2005), pp. 93–123.
Contents
Also known as the Poor Priest's Treasury,{{cite book|last=Buckley|first=Jorunn Jacobsen|title=The Mandaeans: ancient texts and modern people|publisher=Oxford University Press|publication-place=New York|year=2002|isbn=0-19-515385-5|oclc=65198443}} the manuscript is a Mandaic-language scroll consisting of qmahas used for exorcism and magic. The contents are as follows, with links also provided to transliterated texts in the Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon (CAL).
- Qmaha ḏ-Ṣir Sahria (DC 43A). [https://cal.huc.edu/get_a_chapter.php?file=74715 CAL text of DC 43A].
- Qmaha ḏ-Šiul (DC 43B)
- three related texts (DC 43C; see DC 33). [https://cal.huc.edu/get_a_chapter.php?file=74720 CAL text of DC 43C].
- Šuba libišna
- ʿSirna hthimna
- Yawar Ziwa nišimtai (see DC 33)
- Šalhafta ḏ-Mahria (DC 43D; see DC 19). [https://cal.huc.edu/get_a_chapter.php?file=74719 CAL text of DC 43D]
- Qmaha ḏ-Dahlulia (DC 43E; see DC 20)
- Qmaha ḏ-Gastata (DC 43F). [https://cal.huc.edu/get_a_chapter.php?file=74709 CAL text of DC 43F].
- Qmaha ḏ-Br ʿngaria (DC 43G)
- Qmaha ḏ-Br ʿngaria (DC 43G I). [https://cal.huc.edu/get_a_chapter.php?file=74717 CAL text of DC 43G I].
- Qmaha ḏ-Br ʿngaria Zuṭa (DC 43G II). [https://cal.huc.edu/get_a_chapter.php?file=74718 CAL text of DC 43G II].
- Qmaha ḏ-Yurba (DC 43H). [https://cal.huc.edu/get_a_chapter.php?file=74722 CAL text of DC 43H].
- Qmaha ḏ-Šuba (DC 43I). [https://cal.huc.edu/get_a_chapter.php?file=74721 CAL text of DC 43I].
- Qmaha ḏ-Qaština (DC 43J; see DC 39 and its copy in Bodleian, and also MS Syr. G 2 (R)).
See also
References
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