Sharing the written space: Contact and interaction between Arabic and other cultures and scripts

A feature linked to Late Antique book culture, and attested in the Middle East area in particular, is the complex phenomenon of absolute multi-graphism, which can be exemplified by digraphic — and bilingual — book production in the Graeco-Roman period and beyond. The aim of the present study is to examine a Christian-Arabic fragment of Psalms 118:57–125:6 — according to the numbering in the Septuagint found amongst the manuscript material found in the Qubbat al-khazna in Damascus. A palaeographical approach will be adopted.