This volume comprises a new edition, commentary, and translation of thirty nine medical prescription texts in Coptic language, written on papyri, parchment, and paper, as well as ostraka and dipinti. An extensive introduction presents the reader with the specific features of this text corpus before the following edition part provides profound insights into Egyptian medicinal practice in the first century CE.

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Anne Grons, Institute of the History of Pharmacy and Medicine, Philipps University Marburg, Marburg, Germany.