Tomewipe
(Alteration)(Divination)
Reversible

Range:  0
Components:  V, S, M
Duration:  Special
Casting Time:  1 turn
Area of Effect:  Tome touched
Saving Throw:  Negates

Tomewipe can be a very powerful spell and is similar to spells that erase a wizard's memory, but it instead erases all magical language from a scroll or tome. 1d8+1 pages per level can be erased in this manner. This spell has no effect if any magical wards are in place to protect the tome and gives no indication of any such wards: the spell simply fizzles out in the normal fashion of failed magic. If tome, scroll, or whatever the magic is written on fails a saving throw versus spell, the normal effect takes place. The reverse of this spell, tomerestore, is the only way the magic can be returned to the tome. This suggests that even though dispel magic would have no effect on a book or blank piece of paper that magic has already acted upon, the magic is still there or has been made invisible somehow. What actually happens to the words in the tome is probably something like this: the words are transformed into magical energy and stored on another plane, dimension, or similarly other world.
The material components of this spell are a flaming staff of at least 2 feet length and 50 gp value, that must be waved over the tome or scroll during casting, and an ornate sphere of any light coloured material of at least 150 gp in value and able to withstand shock considerably well. The material component of the reverse is either the original sphere (which may be where the magic is stored, but no way to transfer it has yet been found) which must be shattered or cracked in half or a handful of rare herbs that must be burned as incense in the same airspace as the original tome. This action also releases the magic from its holding area if the sphere was lost or destroyed. This second method is quite unreliable and has only a 60% chance of success, plus 5% per caster level over the spell level.

