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Al-Bardiyyat البرديات Newsletter of the International Society of Arabic Papyrology No al-Bardiyyat البرديات newsletter of the international society of arabic papyrology no. 1 (2002-2003) in this issue The Consul-Collector and the Orientalist: ISAP conference to be held in Granada Drovetti, Silvestre de Sacy, and the Beginnings (24-27 March 2004): of Arabic Papyrology "Documentary Evidence and the History of the by Lennart Sundelin (page 3) Early Islamic Mediterranean" North American Papyrus Collections Revisited by Petra M. Sijpesteijn (page 11) After the success of last year's Cairo conference, a second meeting has been scheduled to take place in Granada, Spain on 24-27 March 2004. A Database of Documents from Early Medieval Organized by ISAP and hosted by Escuela de Egypt by M. Lesley Wilkins (page 19) Estudios Arabes (CSIC-Granada), this conference will once again focus on the use of documents (Greek, Coptic, and Arabic) in the The Arabic Documents of the University of study of early Islamic Egypt, but will also Utah Collection by Leonard Chiarelli (page 20) include comparative sessions devoted to the rich documentary cultures of Islamic Spain and Recent Publications of Interest (page 22) elsewhere in the medieval Near East and Mediterranean. ISAP Member News (page 23) Proposals for papers and text workshops to be given at the Granada conference must be submitted by 15 September 2003. Please send beta version of the Checklist of Arabic Papyri these by email to [email protected]. Proposals should be no longer than 500 words now available on-line and should make note of any audio-visual equipment the presenter will require. A beta version of the Checklist of Arabic Papyri, Notification of the acceptance of proposals will compiled by John F. Oates and Petra M. be made by 15 October. Further information Sijpesteijn, is now available online at: about the conference may be found at: scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/papyrus/texts/clist_arab www.princeton.edu/~petras/isap/Granada.html ic.html Modelled on the Checklist of Editions of Greek, or by contacting a member of the ISAP-Granada Latin, Demotic, and Coptic Papyri, Ostraca, and 2004 organizing committee: Tablets, it is designed to provide both a standardized system for reference to published Petra Sijpesteijn ([email protected]) Arabic documents, and a convenient bibliographical resource for the study of such Lennart Sundelin ([email protected]) texts. Any comments, additions, or corrections to the Checklist should be sent to: Sofía Torallas Tovar ([email protected]) [email protected] Amalia Zomeño ([email protected]) 1 ISAP, Inc.! epigraphy and numismatics) with the historical study of medieval Egypt and the Islamic Near ISAP is now officially registered as a non-profit East. It was also hoped that such an organization corporation headquartered at the Department of would promote interchange with historians, Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University (110 archaeologists, and papyrologists working on Jones Hall, Princeton NJ, 08544, USA). other languages and societies of the late antique and medieval Near East and Mediterranean, and To view the Articles of Incorporation and By- especially Greek and Coptic papyrologists Laws of ISAP, go to: working on texts from the early Islamic period. www.princeton.edu/~petras/isap/statutesisap.htm Membership in ISAP is open to all scholars and l students involved in, or interested in, Arabic papyrology. Membership benefits include the ISAP newsletter al-Bardiyyat, substantially reduced fees for attendance at ISAP-sponsored ISAP website conferences and seminars, as well as free or discounted copies of occasional ISAP A website with bibliographies, information about publications. Membership in ISAP costs document collections, links to a variety of online $25/€25 per annum for regular membership or resources, as well as ISAP news (and Granada $15/€15 for students. A signup form and further conference updates), can be found at: information about your application for ISAP membership is available at: www.princeton.edu/~petras/isap/ www.princeton.edu/~petras/isap/signupisap arabicpapy e-mail list Board of Directors Petra M. Sijpesteijn (Princeton) A moderated email list devoted to the discussion President of Arabic papyrology and related disciplines (the Georg Schmelz (Heidelberg), history of late Byzantine and early Islamic Secty.-Treas. Europe/Mid-East Egypt, Greek and Coptic papyrology, Islamic Lennart Sundelin (Princeton), archaeology, numismatics, and epigraphy) is Secty.-Treas. North America being maintained by ISAP. To subscribe to the Adam Sabra (W. Michigan Univ.) list, please send a short message containing your Andreas Kaplony (Zurich) name, e-mail address, and a brief description of your research interests to: Oversight Committee Werner Diem (Köln) [email protected] Gladys Frantz-Murphy (Regis Univ., Denver) Wadad Kadi (Chicago) Geoffrey Khan (Cambridge) Raif Georges Khoury (Heidelberg) International Society for Arabic Papyrology Saied Moghawery (Dar al-Kutub, Cairo) (ISAP) A. L. Udovitch (Princeton) Klaas A. Worp (Amsterdam/Leiden) The International Society for Arabic Papyrology was officially founded on 24 March 2002 at a Arabic Papyrology website meeting held during the Cairo conference Petra M. Sijpesteijn "Documentary Evidence and the History of Early Islamic Egypt." It was felt that such an ArabicPapy email list organization was necessary to encourage, Lennart Sundelin and Petra M. Sijpesteijn facilitate, and publicize individual and cooperative research in the field of Arabic Newsletter editor papyrology, and to encourage interdisciplinary Lennart Sundelin work which more fully integrates Arabic papyrology (and related disciplines like 2 submissions for future issues of al-Bardiyyat collecting was driven by commercial considerations, yet there is no indication that Articles and essays relevant to Arabic these documents were bought or sold. We do papyrology, as well as notices about current know that Drovetti had been shopping around a research, recent or forthcoming publications, and major collection of antiquities at this time, his conferences, seminars, or exhibits, which would "Second Collection," which in 1827 would be of interest to the ISAP membership, should be finally be sold to the French king, Charles X. It sent to: is possible that this gift to Silvestre de Sacy was part of Drovetti's campaign to gain supporters in [email protected] Paris for the purchase of that collection, a campaign which involved quite a lot of gift- The deadline for submission is June 1st of every giving. And there really was no market at the calendar year. time for Arabic papyri, so the gift might have seemed an inexpensive way to win the goodwill of one of France's most respected students of things eastern. ___________________________________ Whatever the case, when the three papyri arrived, Silvestre de Sacy had them all conserved, even though one was judged to be too The Consul-Collector and the far gone to be of much use: "De ces trois papyrus, deux ont été déroulés et fixés comme je Orientalist: Drovetti, Silvestre de le desirois; le troisième, dont la destruction est Sacy, and the Birth of Arabic presque complète, sera traité de la même manière, par respect uniquement pour son Papyrology antiquité: car je ne pense pas qu'on puisse en tirer aucun parti" [Silvestre de Sacy 1825, 462]. by Lennart Sundelin (Princeton) Then, in words that probably sound all too familiar to every new student of papyrology, the great arabist expressed a certain anxiety about In January of 1825, a group of three Arabic being able to read these documents: "En jetant un papyri were received by the eminent French premier coup d'œil sur ces papyrus, je pensai Orientalist, A. I. Silvestre de Sacy. They had qu'il seroit très-difficile de les lire, parce qu'ils come from Bernardino Drovetti, the consul offroient, l'un d'eux surtout, beaucoup de lacunes général de France en Égypte and a tireless et des parties entièrement détruites, et que collector (and marketer) of Egyptian antiquities. d'ailleurs on n'y voyoit aucun des points Later that same year Silvestre de Sacy would diacritiques…" [Silvestre de Sacy 1825, 462]. publish in the Journal des Savants an edition and Moreover, Silvestre de Sacy thought he knew commentary for two of these documents. As very well that the handwriting of these Adolf Grohmann remarked, "mit seiner den documents could not be particularly early: beiden Urkunden gewidmeten Studie, wohl ohne "D'ailleurs, comme ils étoient écrits dans le es zu ahnen, der Begründer der arabischen caractère neskhi, dont on attribue généralement Papyrologie geworden" [Grohmann 1954, 9]. l'introduction au célèbre vizir Ebn-Mokla, mort But, as was often the case, Silvestre de Sacy was en 326 (937), je conjecturois qu'ils n'étoient pas far ahead of his time. Although he would d'une très-haute antiquité…" [Silvestre de Sacy republish these papyri, and publish a few more 1825, 462]. besides, there was little immediate interest in such documents and further serious work on So, he quickly put the papyri aside, planning to Arabic papyri would have to wait half a century. come back to them at a later date, though he did write to a nephew of Drovetti to inquire further about their provenance: "…j'y donnai donc peu A Gift from Egypt d'attention, et j'en remis l'examen à un moment où j'aurois plus de loisir. Je me contentai d'écrire From Silvestre de Sacy's description it is not à M. Drovetti, neveu du consul général et clear why Drovetti sent the papyri to him résidant à Marseille, le même qui avoit rapporté [Silvestre de Sacy 1825, 462]. The consul's d'Égypte ces papyrus, pour apprendre de lui où 3 ils avoient été trouvés" [Silvestre de Sacy 1825, pharaonic Egypt, a time when Champollion's 462]. work on the Rosetta Stone aroused intense debate among scholars. The young French From his response to Silvestre de Sacy's letter, it savant's "Lettre à M. Dacier" had been published would seem that this nephew had been a in 1822, and the Précis du système participant in the excavations at Saqqara during hieroglyphique was completed in April 1824.
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