Egypt
Collection material from Egypt includes manuscripts written on papyrus, parchment and paper covering almost 3,000 years of the human experience. These range from c. 1160 BC to the modern period, surveying Pharaonic, Roman, Christian and Islamic life in Egypt.
Two angels from a Coptic manuscript
Egypt
CBL Cpt 823
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Four horsemen taking part in a contest, from Manual on the Arts of Horsemanship
1366 (767 AH)
Mamluk Cairo (Egypt)
CBL Ar 5655.1181 / 9
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Gospel of Luke
Four Gospels and Acts
200-250 AD
Egypt
CBL BP I ff.13-142 / 9
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Detail from tooled leather bookbinding
1400-1500
Cairo (Egypt)
CBL Is Bb793 / 9
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Pauline Epistles and Gospel of John
c. 600
Apa Jeremias (Egypt)
CBL Cpt 8134 / 9
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Official correspondence of the Strategus of Panopolis concerning the preparations for the forthcoming visit of Diocletian
298 AD
Panopolis (Egypt)
CBL PapPan I.125 / 9
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Contentings of Horus and Seth
c. 1160 BC
Egypt
CBL Pap 1.26 / 9
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Qur’an
1332-1336
Mamluk Cairo (Egypt)
CBL Is 14767 / 9
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Two angels from a Coptic manuscript
Egypt
CBL Cpt 8238 / 9
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Treasure binding
3rd or 4th century AD
Egypt
CBL Cpt 8019 / 9
