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Papyrus accounts: the cloth merchant

Title	Papyrus accounts: the cloth merchant
Publication Date:	800-900 (undated)
Type	Document
Language	Arabic
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	305 mm x 305 mm (height x width)
Library:	Chester Beatty
Record ID	Is Pp9
Library Location	Islamic Collection
Date	800-900 (undated)
Notes	Papyrus accounts of the cloth merchant. Folio fragment, ink on medium brown papyrus, mounted on paper and framed under glass, original cutting lines preserved on the right and lower edges (recto) with some text loss at top and left, Arabic text, written in medium thick pen perpendicular to the fibres (on recto) and parallel to the fibres (on verso), accounting sheet for a cloth merchant business, recording separate accounts (min al-ḥisāba), each with columns for (1:) lists of personal names, including identifiable Christian Egyptian (Coptic) and ethnic or professional nisba surnames, (2:) textile goods reckoned in robes, cloth and bales, and (3:) prices in dinars, qīrāṭs and fractions of ‘current’ coins (jawāz), or purses, unsigned, Egypt, undated, c. 800-900.
Materyal	Papyrus (material), Ink (material)
Nesne Adı	Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)
Müstensih ve Üretim Yeri	Unknown, Egypt
Yazı Tipi	Naskh script

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Papyrus accounts: the cloth merchant

Publication Date 800-900 (undated)

Type Document

Language Arabic

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions 305 mm x 305 mm (height x width)

Library Chester Beatty

Record ID Is Pp9

Library Location Islamic Collection

Date 800-900 (undated)

Notes Papyrus accounts of the cloth merchant. Folio fragment, ink on medium brown papyrus, mounted on paper and framed under glass, original cutting lines preserved on the right and lower edges (recto) with some text loss at top and left, Arabic text, written in medium thick pen perpendicular to the fibres (on recto) and parallel to the fibres (on verso), accounting sheet for a cloth merchant business, recording separate accounts (min al-ḥisāba), each with columns for (1:) lists of personal names, including identifiable Christian Egyptian (Coptic) and ethnic or professional nisba surnames, (2:) textile goods reckoned in robes, cloth and bales, and (3:) prices in dinars, qīrāṭs and fractions of ‘current’ coins (jawāz), or purses, unsigned, Egypt, undated, c. 800-900.

Materyal Papyrus (material), Ink (material)

Nesne Adı Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)

Müstensih ve Üretim Yeri Unknown, Egypt

Yazı Tipi Naskh script