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The Papyrus Collection in Vienna is the largest of its kind in the world. The Austrian National Library owns about 180,000 papyri written in Greek, Egyptian, Coptic, Arabic, Hebrew, Latin, Demotic and Pahlevi, dating from the 2nd millennium BC to the 15th century AD. The first volume of Corpus Papyrorum Raineri (CPR) appeared in 1895.
The thirteen, previously unpublished Arabic letters held in the Austrian National Library, Vienna, and presented in this volume provide broad insights into the social and economic history of Egypt in the eighth to the tenth centuries. Among other things, they reveal the strong negotiating position of wet nurses and describe a farmer's escape to the capital al-Fus, a violent incident in a village, and a boycott by Christians.
Andreas Kaplony, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Germany.


