Coptic magical papyri

[3][4] Although the texts are collectively known as papyri and the majority are written on papyrus, the corpus as studied and published includes texts on parchment, rag paper, wooden tablets, ostraca and limestone flakes.

[5] Generally, older texts are on papyrus and younger ones on paper.

[6] "Virtually all" its texts were produced by Coptic Christians in Egypt.

[9][10] The Coptic magical papyri have been the subject of two research projects at the University of Würzburg: Vernacular Religion in Late Roman and Early Islamic Egypt (2018–2023) and the ongoing Corpus of Coptic Magical Formularies (2024–2027).

[11] All known Coptic magical texts may be found in the projects' online Kyprianos database.