Papyrus Leningrad was written during the Middle Kingdom, probably during the early 12th Dynasty.
The papyrus contains the Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor, a fabulous tale of adventure which may be an ancestor of the story of Sinbad in the Arabian Nights. A translation is available in Ancient Egyptian Literature, vol.1 by Miriam Lichtheim. The hieroglyphic text is available in Egyptian Readingbook by Adriaan deBuck, and also (with a few omissions) is presented and used as reading material in the course of Middle Egyptian Grammar by James Hoch.
It was written in fairly clear Hieratic, whose style is close to being a norm for the Middle Kingdom. Its language is also pretty standard Middle Egyptian, with little or no evidence of Late Egyptianisms. Most of the language and vocabulary is straightforward, although there are a few passages that have scholars arguing still!
The text is written from right to left. The first nine pages are written in columns, as is the last page also. The rest is written in horizontal lines, also from right to left. The sections in columns are a little easier to decipher than those in lines.
The images are displayed at about 75% of their actual size to (almost) fit on an 800X600 screen - if you save an image on your computer, it will be displayed larger and somewhat more clearly in a graphic viewing program.
The hieroglyphic transcriptions are divided into the same pages, and with the same column or line breaks as the original, and are also written from right to left. I hope this will make it easier for you to find the corresponding symbols.
Good luck on your voyage into
Hieratic with the "Sailor"!
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