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^J "l^iv' ^ J J^ "V ^'^ ^^J ^b ^^J ^^ W^L J 



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Va/nae hctiones : — 



«. C Jc^-lX.;, Co ^^Iri-J^^. 3. IH et IK c. ^, 



C ^u ^,:^ i J IK mox hJ!\ % {^^-- ^' ^t . c. Q et IK s.p., Co - -^^ ! 

 C mox ^^jLsX^ . d. IH om. <'. C om., IK ^^^^xJ . / C <!jjU , 

 IH^ iUaU , IH^ aj jIc , sed j loco rasurae. ^. Co ^. JL (__>J^il * 

 IK rursus h^\» . h. Co om. i. Co (^'^ . h. IH add. ^ j 

 IK haec verba inde a J^ J om. ?. IK om. m. IH add. ^icx^;. 

 ?^. IK ^^^_ et mox \)yu^ . o. IH ^^^^ \^\ . ^. IH' j-^i^j j 

 apud IH- punetum litterae • erasum est. 



Translation : — 



' In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful. 



' This is what 'Amr ibn el-'Asi granted the people of Misr 

 in pledge of security for their persons and their religion and 

 their goods, and their churches and their crosses and their lands 

 and their waters : there shall not be taken fi'om them anything of 

 this, nor diminished.* 



* Or as de Sacy renders it, more freely, ' on n'attentera a. leurs droits- 

 relativement a aucune de ces choses, et on ne leur fera eprouver aucun tort.'' 

 Memoires de VInstitiit [Acad, des inscr. et belles-lettres), v., 35 ff. (1821). 



