Letter - Yale University Library

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Description

Title: Letter
Published / Created: Medieval CE viii [NA]
Abstract: "Seeing you is my wish before death.": A man writes to a female relative; Letter offering condolence
Description: Arabic
Provenance: Acquired by gift and purchase, 1889-2005. Acquisition information is recorded in each individual description and on the Library’s Web site, here: https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/research-teaching/doing-research-beinecke/introduction-yale-papyrus-collection/guide-yale-papyrus#Acquisition, The Yale Papyrus Collection was held by the Yale University Library from 1899 to 1930, when it was moved to the Department of Classics. The collection was transferred from the Department of Classics to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library gradually between 1964 and 1967. A group of items including wax tablets and mummy tags (P.CtYBR inv.4971-4985) was transferred from the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History to the Beinecke Library in 1996., 1965c
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Arabic

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box P.CtYBR inv. 2607

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Access: Public
Citation: P.CtYBR inv. [#]. Yale Papyrus Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

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Object ID (OID): 33167235

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