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Papyrus 3124
- Record Id:
- 040-003390064
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100051838863.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100058108285.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 3124
- Title:
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Bilingual Latin-Arabic Private Letter (TM 397934)
- Scope & Content:
- A private letter in Latin and Arabic languages, written in Latin alphabet, in which a certain Sati writes to an acquaintance named Iohanne, asking for news about Iohanne’s health and some economical matters concerning merchandise and trading of linen. A third man, named Custantin, is mentioned. The back records the sender's name.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-003390064 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 3124 : Bilingual Latin-Arabic Private Letter (TM 397934) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0579]/040-003390064
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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One papyrus sheet, fully preserved, with damages presumably due to folding; written on both sides, with 22 lines across the fibres on the recto, and 2 lines along the fibres on the verso. In the first six lines of the recto, the language used is Latin, but then it switches to Arabic, still written in Latin alphabet (rest of recto and verso). Mounted in one glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100058108285.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Arabic
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0600
- End Date:
- 0899
- Date Range:
- 7th century-9th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 295 x 240 mm, mounted in one glass case measuring 360 x 330 mm.
Script: Elementary form of Latin new Roman cursive; written across the fibres on the recto, along the fibres on the verso. Interpunction signs are used to signal pauses or interrogative tones.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Unknown.
Provenance: Probably Egypt. Formerly part of the collection of George Anastase Michaelidis (b. 1900, d. 1973); acquired with other Michaelidis material together with Papyri 3100-3132 and transferred from the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books in May 1979.
- Publications:
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D. Internullo, ‘Un unicum per la storia della cultura. Su un papiro latinoarabo della British Library (P.Lond. inv. 3124)’, Mélanges de l’École Française de Rome. Moyen Âge 128/2 (2016).
D. Internullo, A. D’Ottone Rambach: One Script for Two Languages: Latin and Arabic in an Early Allographic Papyrus, in A. D’Ottone Rambach (ed.), Palaeography Between East&West. Proceedings of the Seminars on Arabic Palaeography held at Sapienza University, Supplement nr. 1 to the «Rivista degli Studi Orientali», n.s. XC (2017), pp. 53-72.
Metadata provided by the PLATINUM project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement nº 636983), University of Naples 'Federico II'.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)