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9 months ago just to be sure - for ms_i2 - you surely checked LIT4566MagicPr LIT4575MagicPr LIT4599Salot LIT4619Prayer LIT4702MagicPr LIT5075MagicPrayer LIT5076MagicPrayer LIT5688MagicPrayer LIT5826MagicPrayer LIT5827MagicPrayer LIT5875MagicPrayer LIT5887MagicPrayer LIT6484PPAynaTela LIT6497PPAynat and they are all different, right?
for ms_i5 - sure, go ahead
for the names of demons - (1) I am not sure that we should mark up demons as persons; we could use keyword term demon for the moment (2) I would really concentrate on cataloguing manuscripts and NOT on marking up the texts contained in them, so I would not suggest to lose time on creating records for all persons and places mentioned in the texts; this should be a separate task apart from the primary cataloguing; we only must create records for persons and places relevant for the manuscript production/storage.
CarstenHoffmannMarburg
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@DenisNosnitsin1970 @eu-genia @thea-m
In BMLacq756, I encoded a number of protective prayers and magical texts. Most of them have correlation to existing LIT, but none of them (but one) can be identified precisely with an existing LIT. I propose therefore to create new LIT and mark the possible relations.
ms_i1 (First column, line 1 to 34) Prayer against Bāryā, Tǝgrǝtyā and Belsibā - written mostly in Gǝʿǝz and partly in Amharic with invocations of magical names, mostly unintelligible and therefore problematic. ጸሎት፡ በእንተ፡ ባርያ፡ ወትግርትያ፡ ቤልሲባ፡ ... ለሰይጣና
ms_i2 (First column, line 34 to 107) Prayer against Bāryā and Lǝgewon and against various diseases as colic, pleurisy, pleuralgia; with invocation of the names of the nails of the cross (sador, ʾalādar, dānāt, ʾadarā, rodās) and other magical names. They could probably be counted as two, but Marrassini however defined it as one protective prayer: ጸሎት፡ በእንተ፡ ባርያ፡ ወልጌዎን፡ ርኩስ፡ ዘይሰልብ፡ ልበ፡ ሰብእ፡ ወይጸልም፡ አእይንት፡ ወይመጽእ፡ ከመ፡ ጽለሎት፡ ወሕልም፡
ms_i3 (Left column, lines 107 to 133) Prayer to Jesus Christ - with invocation of the names of the nails of the cross, and other magical names: በስመ፡ እግዚእነ፡ ኢየሱስ፡ ክር(ስ)ቶስ፡ ዘከተሮ፡ ለሠይጣን፡ በ፭ቅንዋተ፡ ሳዶርቋ፡
This prayer is probably related to LIT6796PPIllnesses, what is not possible to check, because the only referenced witness is in the British library, where images are not available.
ms_i4 (Left column, lines 133 to 155) Prayer against Bāryā and Šatolāy - Prayer for the healing of vaginal bleeding and for the protection of newborn babies through the invocation of magic names similar to LIT6845PPSatolay and the Christ's blood, his sharp sword similar to LIT2295Sayfam and through the six words of the Gospel.
ms_i5 (Left column, lines 155 to 183) Mark 5,25-29 - A passage from LIT1882MarkGo about the healing of haemorrhoids, easy to identify in the edition of the Gospel. I suggest to single this portion out to a new own ID as it is the case with LIT6783MarkFive. I think, it is established here, that also Mark 5,25-29 has its own circulation.
ms_i7 (Right column, lines 160 to 189) Prayer against Šatolāy and Šatolāwit - Prayer for healing from vaginal bleeding and for protection of newborn babies through the invocation of magic names and through the binding of demons with the bonds of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Once again similar to LIT6845PPSatolay.
It is necessary to decide, whether these portions of text should be encoded as independent works with their own LIT ID or, if these texts are too fluid, whether they shall be encoded under the existing IDs with their similar texts.
Furthermore I want to ask, whether it may be useful to encode the names of the demons, that occur in these texts. I did not find them as PRS ID except for Legewon.
Bāryā (name probably related to the Bāryā people, but as a demon should get its own ID) Tǝgrǝtyā Belsibā Šatolāy Šatolāwit Lǝgewon is recorded as PRS6242Legewon, but the record has no indication about the nature as a demon.