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1431. Papyrus 1784

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1784
Title:
Tax Receipt (P.Lond. V 1665, TM 19681)
Scope & Content:
Receipt acknowledging the payment of 3 carats and 1/6 made by Apollos, son of Dioscorus, through Phoebammon on account of village taxes for the village of Phthla, issued by the pagarchs through their assistant Victor.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
557-558 (?)
Extent:
Two fragments of a papyrus slip, not contiguous, with a loss of at least 6 letters between the fragments; damaged at the top and sides and with surface damage; written on one side, the back being blank. The front bears 3 lines written along the fibres, incomplete. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

1432. Papyrus 1785

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1785
Title:
Receipt for Repayment of Money (P.Lond. V 1717, TM 19733) and Metrological Tables and Problems (P.Lond. V 1718, TM 65048, LDAB 6289, MP3 354)
Scope & Content:
Recto: Receipt for the repayment of a debt of money, given by a woman whose name is lost, accompanied by two people, Calotychus, son of Stephanus, and Theodosia, daughter of Ioannes; with subscriptions at the end. The document was written in Antinoopolis. The fragments preserve the left-hand sid...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
2nd half 6th century
Extent:

Three fragments of a papyrus roll of various sizes, housed in two glass frames; written on both sides and preserving further portions of the texts contained in Papyrus 1667.

- 1785 (1) Ro: the lower fragment, wrongly placed at the bottom, contains the beginning of the first six lines of the document; after one line in lacuna, the top fragment contains the beginning of the following 7 lines, with only a few traces for line 7;

- 1785 (2) Ro: beginning of the remaining lines of the document. The ending of the lines is to be found in Papyrus 1667, but the mid strip of the papyrus is missing. The text on the recto is also broken at the top and bottom.

- 1785 (1) Vo: the fragment on the right-hand side, misplaced in the frame, contains lines 1-7 of column 1; the fragment on the left-hand side contains the endings of those lines of column 1 and the beginning of the first seven lines of column 2;

- 1785 (2) Vo: endings of the first lines of column 2 and the first lines of columns 3-6. The continuation of columns 1-4 is to be found in Papyrus 1667, but the mid portions of the columns between Papyrus 1785 and 1667 are lost.

1433. Papyrus 1786

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1786
Title:
Scope & Content:
LEATHER BINDING of a papyrus codex, backed with papyrus containing traces of writing, apparently of the 7th cent. 6½ in.x 5 in. Bindings EGYPTIAN: Brown leather cover of papyrus codex: 7th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7th century
Extent:
1 item

1434. Papyrus 1787

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1787
Title:
Conveyance of Reversion of Property (P.Lond. V 1729, TM 19744)
Scope & Content:
The monk Ioannes bestows upon Patermouthis all his personal possessions (lines 40-42) as well as a hereditary house-share which has yet to be removed from the control of others (lines 32-33), presumably 'the sons of Kostantios' (lines 23-24). Isakios son of Kostantios was the husband of Tsone (P...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
12 March 584
Extent:
Papyrus roll, complete, all margins are extant, 53 lines on recto, written across the fibres, 1 line on the verso written along the fibres; housed in a glass frame.

1435. Papyrus 1788

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1788
Title:
Loan Contract (P.Lond. V 1736, TM 19749)
Scope & Content:
Patermouthis and Kako borrow from the boatman Ioannes four solidi repayable on demand at 8% per annum interest (1 solidus per year) and pledge all their property as guarantee of payment.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
25 February 611
Extent:
Papyrus, incomplete, broken off at the top, margins preserved at left, right and bottom; 34 lines on recto, written along the fibres, 1 line on verso written along the fibres. Housed in a glass frame.

1436. Papyrus 1789

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1789
Title:
Loan Contract (P.Lond. V 1737, TM 19750)
Scope & Content:
Patermouthis acting alone borrows 3 and 1/3 solidi, repayable on demand at an interest of 2% per year, from the same Ioannes from whom he and Kako had borrowed 4 solidi two years earlier (P. Lond. V 1736). Kako's absence from this transaction may suggest her death or disability; it is some 35 yea...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
25 February 611
Extent:
Papyrus, incomplete, broken at the top, margins preserved at left, right and bottom; 27 lines on recto, written along the fibres; 1 line on verso written along the fibres. Housed in a glass frame.

1437. Papyrus 1790

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1790
Title:
Cession (Transfer of House-Share) (P.Lond. V 1730, TM 19745)
Scope & Content:
Ioannes assigns to his sister Kako (here called Tkako) and her husband Patermuthis (here Patermuthios) his share of their grandmother Tlou's house (inherited from their recently deceased father Iakobos) in return for the couple's promise to fully maintain the aged woman. Any attempt to revoke the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
22 August 585
Extent:
Papyrus, complete, all margins preserved; 30 lines on recto, written across the fibres, 1 line on verso written along the fibres; housed in a glass frame.

1438. Papyrus 1791

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1791
Title:
Surety Bond (P.Lond. V 1732, TM 19747)
Scope & Content:
Iakob, an otherwise unknown boatman, guarantees to Patermouthis that two other persons will appear at an arbitration hearing before a judge and will accept his decision. He supports his guarantee with a pledge of three gold solidi. Presumably Patermouthis was a party in the arbitration.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
16 August 586
Extent:
Papyrus, complete, all margins preserved; 10 lines on recto, written across the fibres, 1 line on verso written along the fibres; housed in a glass frame.

1439. Papyrus 1792

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1792
Title:
Settlement of a Dispute (P.Lond. V 1728, TM 19742)
Scope & Content:
Settlement relating to the estate of Iakobos, between Ioannes and Kako, both children of Iakobos; this document follows P. Münch. 7 in time and refers to the securities and boat mentioned there and possibly to the same house (lines 11-12; P. Münch. 7.20-40 and 47-51). Lacunae hinder full understa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
8 March 584
Extent:
Papyrus, incomplete, broken off at left, margins preserved at top, right and bottom; 29 lines on recto, written along the fibres, verso blank; mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

1440. Papyrus 1793

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1793
Title:
Receipt (P.Lond. V 1720, TM 19735), and Statement as to Pledged Articles (Crum ST 439, TM 47601)
Scope & Content:
The recto, in Greek, contains a receipt for the full price of an earring deposited as security for a debt. Dated: 3 February 549. Nonna had borrowed an unknown amount of money from Maria and had left a pair of earrings with her as security. She now sells them to Maria for 8 solidi in cash. The r...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Coptic and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
6th century
Extent:
Papyrus sheet of light colour, written on both sides, folded from right to left. On recto, written along the fibres in Greek. 1 column of text, 18 lines. On the verso written against the fibres in Coptic. The surface of the papyrus on verso side is abraded and damaged at the vertical foldlines and a hole interrupts the lower centre; 1 column of text; the Coptic text has 15 lines.

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