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2. Crosby–Schøyen Codex MS 193 - Wikipedia

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   Manuscript specialist for Christie's, Eugenio Donadoni describes the text as the "earliest witnesses to development in cultural and textual transmission" that "would not be rivalled in significance until Gutenberg's printing press" and that the "earliest monks in Upper Egypt, in the earliest Christian monastery were using this very book to ...

3. One Thousand and One Nights - Wikipedia

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   Two main Arabic manuscript traditions of the Nights are known: the Syrian and the Egyptian. The Syrian tradition is primarily represented by the earliest extensive manuscript of the Nights, a fourteenth- or fifteenth-century Syrian manuscript now known as the Galland Manuscript. It and surviving copies of it are much shorter and include fewer ...

4. Kirtland Egyptian papers - Wikipedia

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   The most complete manuscript with 5 leaves comprising Abraham 1:1–2:18. William W. Phelps and Warren Parrish: July–November 1835: 1 Book of Abraham Manuscript and Explanation of Facsimile I [34] 29 cm × 19 cm (11.4 in × 7.5 in) Written in Nauvoo, 13 leaves comprising Abraham 1:1–2:18. Willard Richards: February 1842: Explanation of ...

5. Nag Hammadi library - Wikipedia

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   The Nag Hammadi library (also known as the Chenoboskion Manuscripts and the Gnostic Gospels [a]) is a collection of early Christian and Gnostic texts discovered near the Upper Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi in 1945. Thirteen leather-bound papyrus codices buried in a sealed jar were found by a local farmer named Muhammed al-Samman. [1]

6. Egyptian National Library and Archives - Wikipedia

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   The Egyptian National Library and Archives are a non-profit government organization. [1] The National Library houses several million volumes on a wide range of topics. [1] It is one of the largest in the world with thousands of ancient collections. It contains a vast variety of Arabic-language and other Eastern manuscripts, the oldest in the ...

7. Nash Papyrus - Wikipedia

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   Nash papyrus. The Nash Papyrus is a collection of four papyrus fragments acquired in Egypt in 1902, [1] inscribed with a Hebrew text which mainly contains the Ten Commandments and the first part of the Shema Yisrael prayer, [2] in a form that differs substantially from the later, canonical Masoretic text and is in parts more similar to the chronologically closer Septuagint.

8. Decipherment of ancient Egyptian scripts - Wikipedia

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   Emmanuel de Rougé, who began studying Egyptian in 1839, was the first person to translate a full-length ancient Egyptian text; he published the first translations of Egyptian literary texts in 1856. In the words of one of de Rougé's students, Gaston Maspero , "de Rougé gave us the method which allowed us to utilise and bring to perfection ...

9. Abu al-Husn and His Slave-Girl Tawaddud - Wikipedia

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   Christine Chism summarises the uncertain origins of the story, from tenth-century Iran to thirteenth-century Egypt. [2] The tenth-century CE Ibn al-Nadīm's famed catalogue of Arabic books, the Kitāb al-Fihrist, includes a chapter on 'the names of fables known by nickname, nothing more than that being known about them', among which al-Nadīm lists 'The Philosopher Who Paid Attention to the ...