The manuscript was purchased byE. S. Drower from SheikhNejm 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, byYahia Bihram br Adam Yuhana. DC 23b contains a variant of one of the qmahas.[4]
A brief study of the manuscript has been published byBogdan Burtea (2005).[5]
Also known as thePoor Priest's Treasury,[6] the manuscript is a Mandaic-language scroll consisting ofqmahas used for exorcism and magic. The contents are as follows, with links also provided to transliterated texts in theComprehensive Aramaic Lexicon (CAL).
^Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2010).The great stem of souls: reconstructing Mandaean history. Piscataway, N.J: Gorgias Press.ISBN978-1-59333-621-9.
^Morgenstern, Matthew (2013).New Manuscript Sources for the Study of Mandaic. In: V. Golinets et. al (eds.),Neue Beiträge zur Semitistik. Sechstes Treffen der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Semitistik in der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft vom 09.–11. Februar 2013 in Heidelberg. AOAT, Ugarit Verlag.
^Müller-Kessler, Christa (2010). "A Mandaic Incantation Against an Anonymous Dew Causing Fright: Drower Collection 20 and Its Variant 43 E".ARAM (22). Peeters:453–476.ISBN9789042929579.
^Morgenstern, Matthew (ed.)."Qmaha ḏ-Gastata".The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon. Retrieved2024-07-27.
^Bogdan Burtea, 'Ein mandäischer magischer Text aus der Drower Collection', in B. Burtea, J. Tropper, H. Younansardaroud,Studia Semitica et Semitohamitica. Festschrift Rainer Voigt zum sechzigsten Geburtstag, (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 317. Münster, 2005), pp. 93–123.
^Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2002).The Mandaeans: ancient texts and modern people. New York: Oxford University Press.ISBN0-19-515385-5.OCLC65198443.
