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A n d r é B a t a i l l e , Traité ďétudes byzantines I I Les papyrus (Paris, Presses universitaires de France 1955).
The book is composed f r o m 4 c h a p t e r s and 3 appendixes. C h a p t . I — The papyrological d o c u m e n t , I I — T h e i n t e r p r e t a t i o n of t h e papyrological d o c u m e n t , I I I — - T h e collections of t e x t s , I V — T h e great problems: 1. political history, 2. chronology, 3. geography a n d topology, 4. a d m i n i s t r a t i o n , 5. law (p. 51—55), 6. diplomacy (p. 55), 7. a r m y a n d police, 8. economic life, 9. religious life, 10. magic a n d occult sciences, 11. intelectual life, 12. private life. A p p . 1. The Greco-Egyptian m o n t h s , A p p . 2. List of t h e E m p e r o r s , of t h e prefects of E g y p t a n d of t h e p a t r i a r c h s of Alexandria between 297 a n d 641, A p p . 3. Some aspects suggested b y t h e letters of t h e B y z a n t i n e period.
A. G r o h m a n n , Einführung und Chrestomathie zur arabischen Papyruskunde I Bd. Einführung (Monografie Archivu Orien-tálního, P r a h a , 1955).
This f u n d a m e n t a l work is also for t h e j u r i s t of great i m p o r t a n c e . I should like t o d r a w a t t e n t i o n t o C h a p t . 7 p . 107 ff. devoted to diplomatics.
A. S t e i n w e n t e r , Das Recht der koptischen Urkunden ( H a n d -b u c h d. Altertumswissenschaft, 10 A-bt., 4 Teil, I I B d . Mün-chen 1955).
I n his t h o r o u g h s t u d y t h e a u t h o r states t h a t t h e Coptic docu-m e n t a t i o n was n o t an original achievedocu-ment b u t a very conserva-tive c o n t i n u a t i o n of the. Hellenistic a n d Byzantine documents f r o m which it borrowed the basis a n d quite a lot of different clau-ses, simply translated into the Coptic language. I n those docu-m e n t s t h e enchoric law arises n o t only fordocu-mally b u t also substan-tially w h a t is perticularly t h e case w i t h the law, geverning do-mestic relations and the law of inheritance a n d more slightly law governing t r a d e a n d commerce where t h e empire law generally prevailes. The a u t h o r investigates also t h e question how t h e en-choric law could persist t h e period of several h u n d r e d years since in E g y p t there were no documents d r a w n u p in the mother tongue. H e t a k e s two possibilities into consideration: either t h e national
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Egyptian law, although not written but actually practised by the people had been preserved and then appeared again in the docu-ments alongside with the revival of the national culture, or the enchoric law has been maintained also in Greek documents and then manifested itself stronger owing to the introduction of a ter-minology in the Coptic language.
F. P r i n g s h e i m , Zu "Reichsrecht und Volksrecht" (JJP V I I — V I I I [1954] 163—168).
Ε. R a b el, In der Schule von Ludwig Mitteis (JJP V I I — V I I I [1954] 157—161).
U. E. P a o l i , Diritto attico e diritto greco (Estr. dal volume "Scritti di diritto rornano in onore di C. Ferrini pubblicati dalla R. Uni-versita di Pavia" [Milano 1943].
The author distinguishes the Attic law and the common Greek law and asserts that the Greco-Egyptian law prior to the Roman conquest offers a compromise between two entirely different laws: the native Egyptian law and the common Greek law transplanted with the Greek cities up to the Nile valley. On the territories of the uninterrupted and original Greek civilization the common Greek law offers its genuine face free from other deformations than those caused by the external contacts with other peoples, by the changes in the political life and by the course of time.
F. P r i n g s h e i m , Geltungsbereich und Wirkung des altgriechi-schen Rechtes (S.A. aus dem Άρχεϊον 'Ιδιωτικού Δικαίου hg. von P. Zepos in Athen, Bd. X Y an Konstantin Triantapliyllopou-los gewidmet).
The author deals with the diffusion of the Greek law in Egypt pointing also to the part played by the Greek forms in the pro-ceedings. He stresses (p. 70) that particularly in Egypt the former Greek residents as well as the Greek new immigrants lived quite up according to the Greek law and that even after the grant of the Roman citizenship to all Greeks living in Egypt not much was changed. He shows many examples that the transmitted ideas
