Crum's volume prints Coptic texts and indices only. Its title page reads 'herausgegeben und übersetzt', but the preface assigns the translation to a second volume that never appeared: 'Der zweite Band soll, aus der Feder von Georg Steindorff, außer einer vollständigen Übersetzung, Ausführliches über Inhalt und Bedeutung der Texte bringen'; the archive.org record for the reprint states 'No more published' (https://archive.org/details/koptischerechtsu00crum, text checked in the OCR: https://archive.org/download/koptischerechtsu00crum/koptischerechtsu00crum_djvu.txt). No English version exists as a volume: HOLLIS query 'Koptische Rechtsurkunden' returns 9 records, none a translation of the corpus; 'Djeme papyri English translation' returns 0 (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Djeme%20papyri%20English%20translation&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 OpenLibrary returns only the German editions and German-language studies of the corpus (https://openlibrary.org/search.json?q=koptische+rechtsurkunden). Brill and Gorgias catalogue search could not be completed from this host (AWS WAF challenge / JS-only search), so the negative result rests on HOLLIS, OpenLibrary and the archive.org full text.
123 documents (84 of them first published here) from the Djeme papyri found near Deir el-Bahri: sales, leases, loans, receipts, marriage and inheritance settlements, divisions and surety deeds, mainly from the second half of the 8th century. Crum calls it the only Coptic document group of comparable coherence in date, origin, language and number. Individual documents are quoted or rendered in later scholarship, but there is no continuous translation of the archive in English or German. The OCR of the Coptic pages in the archive.org scan is largely unusable.
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