The demotic magical papyrus of London and Leiden
Historical edition · 1904 · 75,329 words
A historical occult studies text by Griffith, F. Ll. (Francis Llewellyn). This 1904 edition is presented in searchable text, transcribed from a library scan.
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The glosses were undoubtedly written by the same scribe who wrote the demotic text. And it seems that he wrote the glosses before he filled in the rubrics. For the handwriting of the demotic text and of the rubrics is unquestionably the same ; and in filling up in red the empty spaces he had left for rubrication, the scribe took occasion to fill in with his red ink occasional lapses in the black writing. In the text this can be observed in e.g. 24/1, the omitted g— of the second sir (?) has been filled up in red, and also the omitted determinative in the last word of 28/8, an omitted letter …
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