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The Bankes Homer, consisting of Iliad 24.127-804 (P. Lond. Lit. 28; TM 60500), with a colophon at the end: Ἰλίαδος Ω. Imperfect, lacking the first 126 lines of Iliad 24 (and possibly also all of Iliad 23). Includes, in the margins, the names of characters to indicate passages of direct speech, a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
2nd century
Extent:
1 papyrus roll, writing on one side only, mounted in glass.
Hyperides’ Pro Lycophrone and Pro Euxenippo (P.Lond.Lit. 132, TM 61281, LDAB 2423, MP3 1233)
Scope & Content:
48 columns from the same papyrus roll as Papyrus 108, of which this papyrus is the continuation; the layout and arrangement of the columns is very regular; kollêsis joins are visible throughout, and there are alignment dots; punctuation is marked by spacing and sometimes by using paragraphoi as ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
75-125
Extent:
Fragments of various sizes from a papyrus roll, written on one side along the fibres and preserving 48 columns; the papyrus, housed in three glass frames and mounted on cardboard, is part of the same roll as Papyrus 108. When complete, the roll must have been over 7 metres long. Further fragments are to be found in the papyrus of Cambridge, St John’s College Aa 5.1 Ardenianus, and in P.Louvre inv. 7169.
Register of Contributors for Tax on Land (Geometria) (P. Lond. I 119, TM 20001)
Scope & Content:
Official register of contributors for the geometria, a tax on land, arranged according to districts and alphabetical order. Each entry would have contained the name of the individual, details concerning the property, the tax rate.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
143-144
Extent:
Fragments from a long papyrus roll written on one side along the fibres. Most of the columns that survive are mutilated, but where it is preserved the writing is in good condition. A further portion of the text is to be found in Papyrus 109A (= SB XIV 11704). The fragments are mounted on cardboard in two glass frames; an additional glass frame contains unpublished fragments.
Aristotle's Constitution of the Athenians (P.Lond.Lit. 108) and Other Texts: Scholia on Callimachus’ Aetia (P.Lond. Lit. 181), Farm Accounts (SB VIII 9699, P.Lond. I 131*), Commentary on Demosthenes’ In Midiam (P. Lond. Lit. 179)
Scope & Content:
Recto: - Papyrus 131 (1): Scholia on Callimachus’ Aetia (P. Lond. Lit. 181, TM 59363, LDAB 462, MP3 197). Three columns at the beginning of the roll, the first and the third with only a few lines, of fragments of scholia on Callimachus's Aetia (Σ Lond. = frr. 1d, 2a, and 2e Harder), copied in ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
78-c 100
Extent:
Four papyrus rolls, one of which was divided into two pieces, now separately framed; written on both sides, with two texts being upside down in relation to the other texts written on the same side.
Demosthenes, Epistula III (P.Lond.Lit. 130, TM 61289, LDAB 2431, MP3 337)
Scope & Content:
Demosthenes’ Epistula III.1-38, addressed to the council and assembly and concerning the children on Lycurgus, from the same papyrus roll as Papyrus 134 (Hyperides, Against Philippides), but in a different hand.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1st century BC
Extent:
Continuation of the same roll as Papyrus 134, with blank space of about 300 mm to separate the texts and in a different hand; each sheet of the roll has a width of 185 mm; broken off to the right, with three columns missing from the text; well preserved, with slight abrasion in few places; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. There are 12 columns, sloping to the right, each measuring 170 x 58 mm and having between 29 and 36 lines; the intercolumn measures 12 mm on average; the upper margin measures between 29 and 38 mm, the lower between 33 and 40 mm. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
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...
List of names divided into groups, some of which with headings, with totals of men drawn beneath. One group has a cancelled title. Presumably the document is a list of men available for service rather than a roster of incumbents. At least four people may be identified with the men mentioned in S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
2nd half of the 2nd century
Extent:
Fragment of a papyrus roll, written on one side along the fibres and well preserved, although the first column lacks its left-hand side; mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.
Sale of one third of a house in Apollonopolis by Pistois, head of the monastery of Abba Cyrus, to Zacharias and some other person whose name is lost. The house had been bequeathed to the monastery by Tachymia, daughter of Sansnotus. At the end are nine autograph subscriptions of Pistois and witn...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
630-641
Extent:
Fragment from a papyrus roll containing one column written on one side, lacking the beginning and the right-hand ends of the lines. Mounted in one glass frame.
Sale by Ioannes and Martha, his mother, to Aurelius Victor and his wife Heraëis, of the half belonging to them of a house in Apollonopolis; with autograph subscriptions of the vendors and witnesses. Dated to the 8th Tybi in the 6th indiction, in the reign of the emperors Flavius Heraclius and Fl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3 January 618
Extent:
Fragments from a papyrus roll forming one column, written on one side across the breadth of the papyrus, lacking the beginning.
