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1. Papyrus 2564

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2564
Title:
Record of Proceedings (Under publication, TM 942980)
Scope & Content:
This fragmentary text ranks among the latest datable bilingual record of proceedings from Egypt. It dates back to the reign of the emperor Phocas. The case brought before the court probably concerned debts. There is a reference to praepositi sacr(-) (sacri cubiculi?). The names Ṭheọdorus Seren...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek and Latin
Date Range:
602-609
Extent:
Fragment from a papyrus roll, written along the fibres; the text is arranged on a single column. The layout of the document displays the use of blank spaces. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

2. Papyrus 1774

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1774
Title:
Military Pay Record (?) (ChLA III 212, TM 69874)
Scope & Content:
This badly preserved document seems to be a military pay record, as suggested by the abbreviation for drachma (see col. I 2, 4, 6; col. II 2, 7). The salaries are arranged under the personal names of soldiers. However, no figure can be detected.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd century
Extent:

Fragment from a papyrus roll, written on the recto along the fibres. The verso is blank. Portions of two columns survive, separated by an intercolumn of c. 15 mm. The first column consists of 6 lines, the second of 7 lines.

The light-brown papyrus preserves only the top (15 mm) margin; it is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.

3. Papyrus 138

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 138
Title:
Deed of sale (ChLA III 199; P.Ital. II 46; TM 114822)
Scope & Content:
Deed of sale made on behalf of a woman to a purchaser (both names are lost) at the price of 30 gold solidi. Only the pertinential formula survives, namely the section in which the scribe specifies that, if there are more assets belonging to the land in question, these will become property of the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
7th century
Extent:
A fragment from a papyrus roll. Mounted in glass.

4. Papyrus 3124

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 3124
Title:
Bilingual Latin-Arabic Private Letter (TM 397934)
Scope & Content:
A private letter in Latin and Arabic languages, written in Latin alphabet, in which a certain Sati writes to an acquaintance named Iohanne, asking for news about Iohanne’s health and some economical matters concerning merchandise and trading of linen. A third man, named Custantin, is mentioned. T...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Latin
Date Range:
7th century-9th century
Extent:

One papyrus sheet, fully preserved, with damages presumably due to folding; written on both sides, with 22 lines across the fibres on the recto, and 2 lines along the fibres on the verso. In the first six lines of the recto, the language used is Latin, but then it switches to Arabic, still written in Latin alphabet (rest of recto and verso). Mounted in one glass frame.

5. Papyrus 2563

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2563
Title:
Record of Legal Proceedings (P.Thomas 25, ChLA III 217, TM 78802)
Scope & Content:
This fragmentary document reports the proceedings of a hearing held by a praeses Arcadiae. Despite its scantiness, the preserved text suggests that a procedure per libellum was followed. The plea, probably lodged by at least two people, mentions a city councilman and probably concerned matters o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
401 or 423
Extent:

Fragment of a papyrus sheet, written on one side along the fibres in Latin and Greek and broken off at the top and either side; part of the lower margin is preserved. Mounted on cardboard in one glass case.

6. Papyrus 481

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 481
Title:
Latin-Greek Glossary (P.Lond.Lit. 187, TM 64454, LDAB 5678, MP3 3005)
Scope & Content:
A Latin-Greek glossary, merging three conversational phrases and some words, and roughly lemmatised by topic. The Latin-Greek glossary was used by Greek speakers in early stage of Latin learning.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek and Latin
Date Range:
4th century
Extent:

Fragment from an opisthograph sheet; the verso is written upside down compared to the recto. The text is disposed into two narrow columns, the first with Latin and the second with Greek. The Greek script is used for the Latin words too. Traces of ink on the right side of the recto suggest the existence of another column. The papyrus is mounted in glass.

7. Papyrus 731

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 731
Title:
Military Receipt ( ChLA III 205, P.Grenf. II 110, TM 69873)
Scope & Content:
This receipt for money concerns cavalrymen of an unknown unit. Although the exact nature of the payment is not expressed in the surviving text, the word fides in line 4 points to a fiduciary transaction. Perhaps such payment was needed for food supplies.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
293
Extent:

Fragment from a papyrus roll, broken to the left. The document is written on the recto, along the fibres. The verso is blank. Portions of six lines survive. The light-brown papyrus preserves the top (18 mm), the right (7 mm), and the bottom (52 mm) margins. The black ink is faded in the right edge and is darker in lines 4-6. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.

8. Papyrus 1763

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1763
Title:
Court Proceedings (P.Lond. V 1825 descr., ChLA III 210, TM 19773)
Scope & Content:
Courts proceedings, presumably related to a debt, mentioning a workshop and possibly sailors from Panopolis.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek and Latin
Date Range:
352
Extent:

Fragment of a brown papyrus roll, of lighter colour on the left-hand side, darker on the right; written on the recto: one column, 8 lines; the upper margin (1 cm) is preserved, the other ones are broken; verso blank. Mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

9. Papyrus 993

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 993
Title:
Receipt for a Probation Letter (P.Lond. III 993 descr., P.Gascou 21, TM 22763)
Scope & Content:
The document is a receipt in epistolary form written in Greek. The bookkeeper (actuarius) of a Roman military unit, probably that of the Mauri Scutarii in Hermopolis, acknowledges that he has received the recruit’s letter of probation (epistula probatoria). The man is thus officially a member of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek and Latin
Date Range:
8 January 514
Extent:
Fragment from a papyrus sheet (12 lines). The document is written on the recto, along the fibres. The verso is blank. The papyrus is mounted on a cardboard in a glass frame.

10. Papyrus 2851

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2851
Title:
Strenght report of the cohors I Veterana Hispanorum equitata (ChLA III 219 + XLVIII 219, CPL 112, TM 69875)
Scope & Content:
This military report refers to the part-mounted cohors I Veterana Hispanorum equitata. It is a detailed inventory of personnel, with accessions, losses, soldiers absent on duty, both inside and outside the province, as well as with sick listed. The papyrus closely resembles a pridianum, a yearly ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
105 or 106
Extent:
Fragment from a papyrus roll written on one side along the fibres with the back being blank. Two columns: column 1 preserves 36 lines and column 2 has 45 lines with top (36 mm) and the bottom (40 mm) margins extant. Written with black ink. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.