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1. Lansdowne MS 740

Reference (shelfmark):
Lansdowne MS 740
Title:
Miscellany of historical extracts and poetry
Scope & Content:
ff. 1r–173r: A miscellany which includes extracts relating to Roman history, and poems made during the reign of King James VI and I, including several pieces by John Donne, Sir Thomas Overbury, and others. ff. 1r–6r: Extracts relating to Roman history, from Greek historians and poets. Imperfec...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1st half of the 17th century
Extent:

1 volume

2. Papyrus 485

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 485
Title:
Euripides, Antiope (P.Petr. I 1-2, P.Lond.Lit. 70, TM 59927, LDAB 1037, MP3 433)
Scope & Content:
Portion of a roll from mummy cartonnage, with the end of Euripides’ Antiope: Zetus and Amphion, sons of Zeus and Antiope, have killed Dirce; king Lycus enters, eager to capture Antiope. Hermes appears and commands Lycus to relinquish his power to Antiope’s sons.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3rd century BC
Extent:
Three larger fragments with three detached scraps from a papyrus roll, reused as mummy cartonnage, with surface damage in places; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. On the front, there are portions of four columns, each of 36-37 lines, for a total of 112 lines; the column’s height is 165 mm. Part of the upper and lower margins survive. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

3. Papyrus 486

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 486
Title:
Miscellaneous Literary Texts (TM 60165, 61233, 62771, 62675)
Scope & Content:
Upper left papyrus (A) (P.Petr. I 3(1), P.Lond.Lit. 57, 71, TM 62675): Gnomic anthology with quotations arranged by topic, quoting Ps.-Epicharmus and Euripides. Assigned to the first three quarters of the 3rd century BC. Upper right papyrus (B) (P.Petr. I 3(2), P.Lond.Lit. 79, TM 62771): Fragme...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3rd century BC-2nd century BC
Extent:

Four papyrus fragments that do not belong together, extracted from mummy cartonnage, mounted on cardboard in one glass frame.

Upper left papyrus (A): Upper portion of a papyrus, complete at the top, broken off on the other sides; written on one side along the fibres. The front bears the ends of 9 lines; the upper margin is extant. The back is blank.

Upper right papyrus (B): Papyrus fragment, written on one side along the fibres and preserving the foot of a column, with the beginnings of 18 lines. The back is blank.

Lower left papyrus (C): Papyrus fragment, broken off on all sides, written on one side along the fibres. The front bears parts of 6 lines, with traces of another line at the bottom. The back is blank.

Lower right papyrus (D): Light-brown papyrus fragment, written on one side along the fibres. The front bears parts of two adjacent columns of 20 and 19 lines respectively. The lower margin survives partly. The back is blank.

4. Papyrus 590

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 590
Title:
Euripides, Hypsipyle (P.Petr. II 49(c), P.Lond.Lit. 74, TM 59928, LDAB 1038, MP3 439)
Scope & Content:
Fragment from mummy cartonnage containing Euripides’ Hypsypyle 830-850.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3rd century BC
Extent:
Papyrus fragment, from mummy cartonnage, broken off on the sides and with surface damage; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. There is one column of 21 lines, with parts of the upper and lower margins. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

5. Papyrus 688

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 688
Title:
Tragedy (P.Grenf. II 1, P.Lond.Lit. 80, P.Lond. III 688 descr., TM 65748, LDAB 7002, MP3 1708)
Scope & Content:
Fragments from the same roll as Papyrus 1822, containing trimeters from a tragedy: post-classical? or Euripides’ Oeneus?
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3rd century BC
Extent:

Three fragments of varying size from the same papyrus roll as Papyrus 1822, reused as mummy cartonnage; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank; mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

Upper left fragment (A.1): Portions of 6 lines, with traces of another line at the bottom; lacking beginnings and ends; no margin extant.

Upper right fragment (A.2): Small fragment with few letters from three lines, wanting beginnings and ends; part of the upper margin survives.

Lower fragment (B): Layer of horizontal fibres lost at the top; traces of two columns; of the first, the ends of 8 lines survive; of the second column, only scant traces from the beginnings of few lines.

6. Papyrus 783

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 783
Title:
Euripides, Phoenissae (P.Oxy. II 224, P.Lond.Lit. 76, TM 59843, LDAB 948, MP3 421)
Scope & Content:
Fragment of a roll with Euripides’ Phoenissae. Column 1: Phoenissae 1017-1043. Column 2: Phoenissae 1064-1071. Another fragment of the same roll, published as P.Ryl. III 547 and housed in the John Rylands Library, Manchester, contains lines 646-657.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
mid 2nd century-mid 3rd century
Extent:

Fragment of a papyrus roll, written on one side along the fibres, with the back being blank. It preserves parts of two columns; the first column has 29 lines; of the second, few traces of 7 lines remain. Each column would have contained 29-30 lines.The column is 120 mm wide and 154 mm high; the intercolumn measures 60 mm. The surface is damaged in places. The upper and lower margins survive to 46 and 40 mm respectively; the side margins are lost. The number in red refers to the publication in P.Oxy. II. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case. Another fragment of the same roll is housed in the John Rylands Library, Manchester.

7. Papyrus 1524

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1524
Title:
Hypothesis of Euripides’ Electra and Account (P.Oxy. III 420, P.Lond.Lit. 72, TM 59860, LDAB 966, TM 111095)
Scope & Content:
Fragment of a summary (hypothesis) of Euripides’ Electra, lines 341-584, on the recognition of Orestes by Electra. The back was reused to host an account from the late third century.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3rd century
Extent:

Medium-brown papyrus fragment, written on both sides. On the front, there are 22 lines from the top of a column, written along the fibres and abraded in places. The upper margin survives. On the back, there are portions of one column written across the fibres, of which 13 lines survive. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.

8. Papyrus 1822

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1822
Title:
Tragedy (P.Hib. I 4, P.Lond.Lit. 80, TM 65748, LDAB 7002, MP3 1708)
Scope & Content:
Fragments from the same roll as Papyrus 688, containing trimeters from a tragedy: post-classical? or Euripides’ Oeneus?
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3rd century BC
Extent:

Six fragments of varying size from the same roll as Papyrus 688, reused for mummy cartonnage; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank; mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

Fragment A: Portions of 2 columns, of 9 and 7 lines respectively, broken off at the bottom;

Fragment B: Portions of 5 lines;

Fragment C: Portions of 10 lines;

Fragment D: Portions of 11 lines;

Fragment E: Portions of 6 lines;

Fragment F: Portions of 4 lines.

9. Papyrus 2652

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2652
Title:
Account, Archilochus and Euripides (Pap.Lugd.Bat. XX 14-15, P.Lond.Lit. 54, 73, TM 1845-6, 91989)
Scope & Content:
Upper papyrus (A) (Pap.Lugd.Bat. XX 14, P.Lond.Lit. 54, TM 91989, TM 1845, LDAB 333, MP3 130): On one side (verso in Milne, Roberts, et al., possibly recto in Prodi 2019), Archilochus’ tetrameters, perhaps from the end of the work (Prodi 2019); on the other side (possibly verso in Prodi 2019), p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
Mid 3rd century BC
Extent:

Two papyrus fragments that do not belong together, housed in the same glass frame.

Upper papyrus (A): Medium-brown papyrus fragment, with writing on both sides along the fibres; on one side, there are portions of 8 lines lacking the beginnings; a blank space of 40 mm follows on the right; on the other side are portions of 1 column, written perpendicularly in relation to the other text.

Lower papyrus (B): Medium-brown papyrus fragment, broken off on all sides; with writing on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. On the front, portions of two columns survive, originally of 27 lines; intercolumn extant.

10. Papyrus 2952

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2952
Title:
Euripides, Heracles (P.Hib. II 179, TM 59926, LDAB 1036)
Scope & Content:
Recto Version of Euripides’ Hercules Furens, with substantial divergences from the medieval tradition. Possibly adaptation of the play for performance of reading purposes (see Meccariello, Philologus 163). Fr. 1: end of the prologue, anapaestic parodos, with the entry of the chorus of elders, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3rd century BC
Extent:
Eight fragments of varying size from a papyrus roll, extracted from mummy cartonnage, written on both sides. The roll was of small format, the height being up to 157 mm. On the front, the writing runs along the fibres and portions of 4 columns are preserved. Fragment 1 carries portions of 30 lines, lacking beginnings and ends; fragment 2 bears portions of 2 columns of 4 and 5 lines respectively; fragment 3 has the mid parts of 15 lines; fragment 4 carries the central parts of 5 lines; fragment 5 has 5 fragmentary lines; fragment 6 preserves parts of 6 lines; fragment 7 has parts of 5 lines; fragment 8, originally stuck onto fragment 4, has a few letters from 8 lines and may not belong to the other fragments. The column height was 157 mm. On the back, fragments 1, 4 and 6 bear writing across the fibres. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.