Coptic Legal Documents: Law as Vernacular Text and Experience in Late Antique Egypt: Volume 377 (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies) - Hardcover
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This volume contains annotated English translations of fifty selected legal documents originally written in the Coptic language, dating from the mid-sixth to the mid-eighth centuries. They include land transfers, sales, wills, property divisions, and intergenerational disputes. The choice of which language to use in recording their transactions was significant for the documents' framers, and the introduction sets these Coptic texts in their historical contexts of the changing society of Egypt, first under Byzantine rule, then under Islamic rule. Since the originals are in a language not known to most classicists or medievalists, making the documents available in English will enable them to be read, studied, and appreciated by a wider audience.
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LESLIE S.B. MACCOULL is a papyrologist specializing in Coptic documents and in the social and cultural history of late antique Egypt. She is Senior Research Scholar of the Society for Coptic Archaeology (North America) and an Academic Associate of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
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Condition: as new. Tempe, Ariz. : ACMRS, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2009. Hardcover. xxxiv, 214 pp. map. 24 cm. (Medieval and renaissance texts and studies, 377 / Arizona studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, 32). - This volume contains annotated English translations of fifty selected legal documents originally written in the Coptic language, dating from the mid-sixth to the mid-eighth centuries. They include land transfers, sales, wills, property divisions, and intergenerational disputes. The choice of which language to use in recording their transactions was significant for the documents' framers, and the introduction sets these Coptic texts in their historical contexts of the changing society of Egypt, first under Byzantine rule, then under Islamic rule. Since the originals are in a language not known to most classicists or medievalists, making the documents available in English will enable them to be read, studied, and appreciated by a wider audience. Contents : Documents P. Cair. Masp. II 67176r + P. Alex. inv. 689, cession of land, 4 November 569 -- P. Lond. V 1709, arbitration of inheritaNCE, CA. 570 -- PKRU 105 donation of village land for a monastic foundation 576-578 -- P. Mich. inv. 6998 mutual cession of land 632 -- PKRU77 preamble to a will 4 December 634 -- P.Vat. Copti Doresse 2 sale of house property 639 -- P.Vat. Copti Doresse 5 sale/transfer of landed property 640 -- P. Vat.Copti Doresse 3 division of house and land 624 or 654 -- P.Vat.Copti Doresse 1 sale/cession of part of a wheeled vehicle, 625/26 or 640/41 (?) -- PKRU 75. testament 7th c. -- PKRU 65 testament late 7th c. -- PCLT 1 document of release 13 November 698 -- PCLT 4 document of release 18 November 702 -- PCLT 2 agreement concerning a monastic donation, 25 November 703(?) -- PCLT 5 legal relief concerning money dispute 24 November 711 -- PKRU 34 sale of silver object 15 January 713 -- PKRU 9 sale of part of a courtyard 4 March 715 -- PKRU 35 settlement of inherited-property division 6 October 719 -- PKRU 55 business agreement 7 October 720 (or 735?) -- PKRU 66/76 testament before 722 -- PKRU 45/46 division of a house 24 April 725 (or 740?) -- PKRU 3 sale of inherited landed property 728/29 -- PKRU 13 sale of house property 30 November 733 -- PKRU 54 acknowledgement of receipt of donation 24/25 September 748. Condition : as new copy. ISBN 9780866984256. Keywords : ROMAN LAW, *2006-100 roman law. Seller Inventory # 304950
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