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1492. Papyrus 1858
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1858
- Title:
- Account of Expenses from the Archive of Dioscorus (P.Lond. V 1670, TM 19692)
- Scope & Content:
- Portion of an account of expenses, including tax payments made from the local treasury. It may be part of P.Cair.Masp I 67056. Written after 25 May 551.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Date Range:
- c. 551
- Extent:
- Medium-dark brown papyrus fragment, another portion of which may be a papyrus now in Cairo, published as P.Cair.Masp I 67056; complete at the top, bottom and right, broken off on the left; written on one side, the back being blank. On the front, there are 2 columns of 15 and 6 lines respectively, running along the fibre;, the first column lacks its left-hand half. A sheet-join runs vertically down the centre. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
1493. Papyrus 1859
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1859
- Title:
- Miscellaneous Fragments (TM 62145, 64880, 64883, 65196-65197)
- Scope & Content:
- Upper left papyrus (A) (P.Lond.Lit. 241, TM 65196, LDAB 6438): Fragment of a Christian prayer, barely legible, assigned to the sixth or seventh century. Upper right papyrus (B) (P.Lond.Lit. 210, TM 62145, LDAB 3305): Fragment of the same papyrus codex of the Book of Job as two fragments now in ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Date Range:
- 5th century-7th century
- Extent:
-
Thirteen papyrus fragments, only some of which belong together, housed in the same glass frame.
Upper left papyrus (A): Fragment of a papyrus, with surface damage throughout; written on one side; portions of 13 lines running along the fibres, barely readable in places.
Upper right papyrus (B): Upper part of a leaf from a papyrus codex, with surface damage; from the same codex as two other fragments, now in Manchester, John Rylands Library (Gr. 2), and New York, Pierpont Morgan Library (Amherst Gr. 4). The fragment is written on both sides, along and across the fibres, and preserves portions of 10 and 11 lines, illegible in places. The upper margin measures 40 mm, the side margin measures 70 mm.
Two fragments in the centre on the left (C): Two small papyrus fragments, broken off on all sides; written on both sides across the fibres.
Right fragment in the centre (D): Papyrus fragment of light colour from a codex, broken off on all sides; written on both sides, along and across the fibres.
All other fragments (E): Eight medium-to-dark brown fragments of varying size from a papyrus codex; broken off on all sides; writing on both sides, along and across the fibres.
1494. Papyrus 1860
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1860
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of a loan of corn. 6th cent. 5¾ in. x 2¾ in.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 6th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
1495. Papyrus 1861
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1861
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
- Recto, small portion of an accompt, 7th cent.; verso, part of a protocol of the "Byzantine" type. 11½ in. x 2½ in.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 7th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
1496. Papyrus 1862(A-G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1862(A-G)
- Title:
- Miscellaneous Texts (TM 60505-60506, 61278, 63517-63518, 65532)
- Scope & Content:
- Upper left fragment (A) (P.Lond.Lit. 3, TM 60505, LDAB 1628): Fragment of a papyrus containing Homer, Iliad I 608-611, with traces of line 607. Assigned to the second century. AD Second fragment from top (B) (P.Lond.Lit. 195, TM 65532, LDAB 6783): Fragment of an elegiac poem, or possibly a comm...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Date Range:
- 1st century BC-2nd century
- Extent:
-
Seven papyrus fragments that do not belong together, housed in the same glass frame.
Upper left fragment (A): Medium-brown papyrus fragment, broken off on all sides; written on one side, the back being blank. On the front, there are portions of 4 lines written along the fibres, and traces of another line at the top. The back is dark-stained in places.
Second fragment from top (B): Medium-brown papyrus fragment, complete at the bottom (front), broken off on all sides; written on both sides. On the front, there are portions of 10 lines written along the fibres from the bottom of a column. The lower margin is extant. The back bears portions of 6 lines written across the fibres, the other way up in relation to the text on the front.
Upper right fragment (C): Medium-brown papyrus fragment, complete at the bottom and right, broken off on the other sides; written on one side; the back is blank. On the front, there are the ends of 7 lines from the foot of a column, written along the fibres. Right and lower margins survive, the lower being ample and measuring 40 mm.
Small fragment in the middle on the right (D): Light-brown papyrus fragment, broken off on all sides; the writing runs on one side, the back being blank. On the front, there are portions of 6 columns written along the fibres.
Lower left fragment (E): Medium-brown papyrus fragment, apparently broken off on all sides; written on both sides. On the front, there are portions of 9 lines written along the fibres, well-spaced; on the back, there are the beginnings of 22 lines written across the fibres.
Middle fragment at the bottom (F): Dark-brown papyrus fragment, of lighter colour on the back; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. On the front, there are a few letters from the ends of 17 lines.
Lower right fragment (G): Medium-brown papyrus fragment, complete at the bottom and right, broken off on the other sides; written on one side; the back is blank. On the front, there are the ends of 12 lines from the foot of a column, written along the fibres. Right and lower margins are minimal.
1497. Papyrus 1864
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1864
- Title:
- Order to Pay and Account (SB XX 14462, TM 14884, 14244)
- Scope & Content:
- Recto (TM 14884): Order of Alypius to Heroninus, estate manager, to deliver a quantity of vinegar to Palas, estate manager of Philoteris; with Palas’ acknowledgment of receipt. The beginning of the text is contained in P.Flor. II 164. Dated to 249-268. Verso (TM 14244): Account of wine by Heron...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Date Range:
- 249-269
- Extent:
- Papyrus sheet of light colour, broken off at the top and bottom, lacking fibres in places and displaying other surface damage; written on both sides. On the front, there are 10 lines running along the fibres, the first and last being mutilated. Blank space separates lines 9 and 10. The left margins survives, and no margin was left to the right. The back bears portions of 21 lines, abraded, written across the fibres in the left-hand side of the sheet. One word is written along the fibres in the upper right corner. The upper portion of the sheet is a fragment housed in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, and published as P.Flor. II 164. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
1498. Papyrus 1868
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1868
- Title:
- Excerpt from a Record of Proceedings (ChLA III + XLVIII 213, TM 99306), and Tax Account (TM 99307)
- Scope & Content:
- Recto (TM 99306): Excerpts from a record of proceedings in Latin according to P. van Minnen in CLTP*; letter or minute of audience according to R. Marichal in ChLA III 213 recto, probably before the governor of the Thebaid (name and title in Latin are lost). The word exempla (line 1) shows that ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Greek and Latin
- Date Range:
- 5th century
- Extent:
- Fragment from a papyrus sheet, broken off on the left and right sides; written on both sides; on the recto there is one column written along the fibres. The verso bears the top of four columns written across the fibres and portions of another column of which only the beginnings of the lines survive. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
1499. Papyrus 1869
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1869
- Title:
- Requisitions of Fodder (AfP 65 (2019), pp. 333-337, TM 837694)
- Scope & Content:
- List of requisitions of fodder from various Antinoite villages for the army or the administration; with heading stating the purpose and names of sixteen villages; the quantities of fodder may have followed; with check marks opposite most entries. On the back there are few letters of a column, p...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Date Range:
- mid 7th century
- Extent:
-
Papyrus fragment, broken off at the bottom and right and with some damage in the preserved portion; writing runs along the fibres on the front and across them on the back. On the front there are the beginnings of 19 lines; the left margin is extant and a sheet-join runs along the height of the papyrus at c. 20 mm from the left-hand edge. The back bears traces of a column, of which 1-4 letters survive; the text is written upside down in relation to the text on the front; the left margin is ample. The papyrus is housed in a glass case.
1500. Papyrus 1873
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1873
- Title:
- Homer, Iliad II (P.Lond.Lit. 6, TM 60260, LDAB 1380, MP3 643), and Other Texts (TM 113039)
- Scope & Content:
- Portions of a papyrus roll containing lines from Homer’s Iliad II, with marginal annotations and stichometry, end-title, and a prose introduction to the Iliad; other texts (further lines from the Iliad, a name, and documentary texts) are present at the end of the recto and on the verso. Papyrus...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Date Range:
- 1-87
- Extent:
-
Fragments of a medium-brown papyrus roll, darkened in places; housed in seven glass frames named Papyrus 1873(1), Papyrus 1873(2), Papyrus 1873(3), Papyrus 1873(4), Papyrus 1873(5), Papyrus 1873(6), and Papyrus 1873(7). Each sheet forming the roll is about 165 mm wide; the front of the roll has 22 columns written parallel to the fibres, with each column measuring 190 x 180 mm on average and having about 35 lines.Occasionally, there is writing on the back, running across the fibres. Seven fragments of the same roll are now in Manchester, John Rylands Library (Gr. 540 Ro), one fragment at the Library of Congress of Washington (inv. 4082 B), another at the Pierpont Morgan Library (inv. M662B(6b) + (27k)), and one at the Universitätsbibliothek in Giessen (inv. 213).
