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81. Add MS 33270

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Title:
Tachygraphic Commentary (TM 64313)
Scope & Content:
Tablets inscribed with shorthand symbols of a tachygraphic commentary (signs 1-785, 1-466, 278-579) and a few memoranda in Greek. Three series of the commentary are preserved in whole or in part. Each sign is written by the pupil four times to represent the tetrad, but without the addition of te...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3rd century-4th century
Extent:
A waxen book, consisting of seven wooden tablets coated with wax on both sides and two covers waxed on inner side, making nine tables. The leather thongs with which the tablets were bound and fragments of the leather laces, which formed the hinges, remain. In one of the covers, a groove is hollowed for the reception of the writing implement.

82. Add MS 33293

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Title:
Homer, Iliad III 273-285 with syllabification (TM 60833, LDAB 1961, MP3 694)
Scope & Content:
A wooden board, painted white and written along the long dimension, with thirteen lines from the third book of Homer's Iliad; on one side Iliad III 273-277, with the words separated by oblique lines. On the other Iliad III 278-285, with words and syllables distinguished with small markings, then ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3rd century
Extent:
A wooden board, painted white and inscribed in ink on both sides.

83. Add MS 33368

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Title:
Grammatical Exercises with Drawing (TM 64582, LDAB 5812, MP3 2714)
Scope & Content:
A waxen book, inscribed by the stilus with grammatical material, such as the names of the cases, and other rough notes (possibly scribblings), in Greek, apparently the work of a schoolboy. A drawing – possibly meant for the schoolmaster – appears on one of them.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
4th century-5th century
Extent:
Codex of 6 wooden tablets coated with wax on both sides and two covers waxed on the inner side only.

84. Add MS 33369

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A set of ten wooden tablets, each having from a quarter to a third of its width broken off, with inscriptions relating to debts, arrears of taxes, etc.
Scope & Content:
A set of ten wooden tablets, each having from a quarter to a third of its width broken off. Seven of them contain inscriptions, written in ink (in three cases on both sides) on a ground of drab paint; the rest are blank, and one, which formed a cover, has a groove cut in it to hold the reed or s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
7th century ?
Extent:
10 wooden tablets.

85. Add MS 33797

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Title:
Account (TM 131549)
Scope & Content:
Portion of an account for fodder, grain, etc., headed by the name of one Chaeremon, in Greek; inscribed on the waxed surface of the inner side of one of the covers of a set of waxed wooden tablets.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3rd century
Extent:

Cover of wood codex of 1 wax tablet (inner side). Writing on one side only.

86. Add MS 33999

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Add MS 33999
Title:
Documents (TM 131550)
Scope & Content:
Twelve broken portions of waxen books. One fragment refers to the testamentary dispositions of Julius Serenus, a soldier, deceased, and to his infant son. Some of the unwaxed backs bear faint writing in ink. The pieces make up one complete diptych, one fragmentary triptych, and three odd pieces.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
2nd century
Extent:

Wax tablets, consisting of twelve broken portions of waxen books, bearing Greek writing inscribed with a stylus. Some of the unwaxed backs bear faint writing in ink.

87. Add MS 34186

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Title:
School Exercises with Menander’s Sententiae, Multiplication Table and List of Words (CPF II.2 MS 16, P.Lond.Lit. 253, TM 61495, LDAB 2642, MP3 2713)
Scope & Content:
Tablet 1 (Add MS 34186(1)): A teacher wrote two iambic maxims (gnomai) on two ruled lines (Menander, Sententiae 476). A student copied them twice between ruled lines, always omitting the sigma that starts the first sententia. The last two lines are written in a very narrow space. Tablet 2 (Add ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
2nd century
Extent:

Wood codex of 2 wax tablets, complete, inventoried as Add MS 34186(1) and Add MS 34186(2). Writing on one side only.

Tablet 1: two lines, space, followed by four lines.

Tablet 2: Divided in two by a vertical line. Left: two columns of multiplication tables (11 and 10 lines); Right: five lines divided by lines.

88. Add MS 34244

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Title:
Memoranda (TM 131552)
Scope & Content:
Leaf of a wooden booklet containing memoranda, probably of expenses, with dates in theEgyptian month Mesore (August).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1st century?
Extent:
Waxed tablet, forming the last leaf of a notebook of waxed tablets.

89. Add MS 34473

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Title:
Fragments of parchment manuscripts, including fragments of Demosthenes, Herodotus, Parthenius, Lucan, an unknown Hellenistic epic poet, and a Psalter
Scope & Content:
Fragments of parchment manuscripts, including fragments of Demosthenes, Herodotus, Parthenius, Lucan, an unknown Hellenistic epic poet, and a Psalter.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
2nd century-7th century
Extent:
7 items

90. Add MS 34473, f 1

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Add MS 34473, f 1
Title:
Scope & Content:
P. Lond. Lit. 127. Portions of a manuscript of Demosthenes, De Falsa Legatione (TLG 0014.019). The MS was originally composed of leaves measuring 190x165mm, with two columns of 36 lines to a page. The fragments include the greater part of four columns and smaller portions of four more, containin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
150-250
Extent:

4 folios, mounted in glass

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