The London Papyrus and Egyptian love-magic and divination recipes
- Date of account
- Nineteenth-century scholarly publication of an ancient manuscript
- Location
- Egypt; London and Leiden collections
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
The London Papyrus, often discussed alongside Leiden material, preserves ancient Egyptian recipes involving love, protection, divination, and ritual manipulation. Its nineteenth-century publication made a concrete magical handbook available to European philologists and later occult interpreters. The lead is important for testing claims that Egyptian magic was a single secret system: the manuscript instead reflects practical recipes, scribal compilation, and historically specific religious language. Identification can be complicated because related pieces and editions use different catalogue numbers, titles, and reconstructions.
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