The term "documentary text" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a type of writing which is factual and presents information rather than opinion (e.g. scientific research papers, histories, biographies, etc). For example: "The writing in this documentary text is clear and concise, and presents its facts in a logical order."
They are mostly documentary texts, in Greek or Demotic.
The Princeton Geniza Lab is a collaborative space devoted to making the documentary texts of the Cairo Geniza accessible to scholars and the wider public.
Naturally, they are different experiences: with the book you get Ms. Stange's essays and more documentary texts; with the show you get the immediate impact of the pictures themselves, all modern prints.
Works by Homer, Plato, Thucydides, Demosthenes, Menander, and the Gospels, as well as documentary texts for the study of the political, administrative and social history of the Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt.
Well illustrated with images of significant objects, Her Father's Daughter is marked by Pick's wide-ranging interdisciplinary approach, which encompasses liturgy, art, manuscripts, architecture, documentary texts, historical narratives, saints' lives, theological treatises, and epigraphy.
This constantly-updated online edition provides a bibliography of all monographic volumes, both current and out-of-print, of Greek, Latin, Demotic and Coptic documentary texts on papyrus, parchment, ostraca or wood tablets.
Abnormal Hieratic was developed specifically for documentary texts while Hieratic was increasingly restricted to literary texts.
Includes the inscriptions in the PHI Packard Humanities Institutee) CD-ROM #7: Greek Documentary Texts.
By including both literary and documentary texts another fence is broken down.
Among them we find works of literature, sometimes hitherto unknown, magical texts and all kinds of documentary texts, such as private letters, contracts, tax accounts, receipts and petitions.
