Papyrus letter and agricultural lease: sowing wheat

Title Papyrus letter and agricultural lease: sowing wheat
Publication Date: 884-911 (271-299H)
Type Document
Language Arabic
Digital Yes
Manuscript Yes
Physical Dimensions 205 mm x 229 mm (height x width)
Library: Chester Beatty
Record ID Is Pp11
Library Location Islamic Collection
Date 884-911 (271-299H)
Notes Papyrus letter and agricultural lease . Folio fragment, ink on dark brown papyrus, mounted on paper and framed under glass, broken off on all sides with text loss of text at top, left and right edges, Arabic text, written in a practiced cursive hand perpendicular to the fibres (on recto), and in a large hand with a thicker pen parallel to the fibres (on verso), two un-related documents, (recto:) agricultural lease (qabāla), witnessed document leasing one faddān of land for the cultivation of wheat, issued to Muḥammad son of `Abdullāh, (verso:) probably a letter, unsigned, Egypt, dated (on recto) between 271-279H or 291-299H, c. 884-911.
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 letter and agricultural lease: sowing wheat

Publication Date 884-911 (271-299H)
Type Document
Language Arabic
Digital Yes
Manuscript Yes
Physical Dimensions 205 mm x 229 mm (height x width)
Library Chester Beatty
Record ID Is Pp11
Library Location Islamic Collection
Date 884-911 (271-299H)
Notes Papyrus letter and agricultural lease . Folio fragment, ink on dark brown papyrus, mounted on paper and framed under glass, broken off on all sides with text loss of text at top, left and right edges, Arabic text, written in a practiced cursive hand perpendicular to the fibres (on recto), and in a large hand with a thicker pen parallel to the fibres (on verso), two un-related documents, (recto:) agricultural lease (qabāla), witnessed document leasing one faddān of land for the cultivation of wheat, issued to Muḥammad son of `Abdullāh, (verso:) probably a letter, unsigned, Egypt, dated (on recto) between 271-279H or 291-299H, c. 884-911.
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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