Papyrus & Palm Leaf
Papyrus was the primarily writing material in Egypt from at least c. 2900 BC until c. 1000 AD. Surviving remarkably well in the desert sands, documents and manuscripts written thousands of years ago continue to be uncovered revealing much about the beliefs and everyday lives of ancient civilisations and the Chester Beatty Collection includes texts written in Hieroglyphics, Hieratic, Demotic, Greek, Coptic, Latin and Arabic.
Palm leaf folded book
CBL InE 1504
Highlights
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Book of Joshua
300-350 AD
Dishna (Egypt)
CBL Cpt 2019.81 / 7
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Greek Grammar and Graeco-Latin Lexicon
300-400 AD
Dishna (Egypt)
CBL BP XXI ff.10&132 / 7
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Numbers
c. 150 AD
Egypt
CBL BP VI f.103 / 7
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Papyrus and leather bookbinding
c. 300-350 AD
Dishna (Egypt)
CBL Cpt 20204 / 7
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Papyrus fragments
6th-8th century
Aphrodito (Egypt)
CBL Cpt 2177.93-965 / 7
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Judgement of the soul from the Book of the Dead for Lady Neskons
c. 300 BC
Egypt
CBL Pap XXI.46 / 7
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Lease of a linen-weaving workshop
355 AD
Panopolis (Egypt)
CBL PapPan V7 / 7