| MS Drower 43 | |
| Location: | Bodleian Library |
| Also Known As: | DC 43 |
| Type: | Scroll |
| Date: | 1270 A.H. (1853 A.D.) |
| Place Of Origin: | Lower Mesopotamia |
| Language(S): | Mandaic |
| Scribe(S): | Yahya Bihram |
| Script: | Mandaic |
| Contents: | Qmaha texts used for exorcism and magic |
MS Drower 43 (typically abbreviated as DC 43) is a Mandaic manuscript that contains over a dozen qmaha texts (i.e., amulet formulae) used for exorcism and protection against evil. It is part of the Drower Collection in the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford.[1] [2]
The manuscript was purchased by E. S. Drower from Sheikh Nejm bar Zahroon in 1939[3] and was copied in 1270 A.H. (1853 A.D.) in the marshlands in the territory of the Kit bin Sa'ad, by Yahia Bihram br Adam Yuhana. DC 23b contains a variant of one of the qmahas.[4]
A brief study of the manuscript has been published by Bogdan Burtea (2005).[5]
Also known as the Poor Priest's Treasury,[6] the manuscript is a Mandaic-language scroll consisting of qmahas used for exorcism and magic. The contents are as follows, with links also provided to transliterated texts in the Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon (CAL).