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141. Papyrus 696

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 696
Title:
Scope & Content:
FRAGMENTS of an account, consisting of proper names followed by sums of money, but with nothing to indicate their purport. 2nd cent. B.C. Four fragments, measuring about 9.5 in. x 121 in., 9 in. x 10 in., 9 in. X 7 in., and 9 in. x 6.5 in. Written in a small hand.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd century BC
Extent:
1 item

142. Papyrus 1848

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1848
Title:
Scope & Content:
THREE fragments, 7th~8th centt., one in a hand very similar to those of the letters of Kurrah b. Sharik [cf. 1558-1560], perhaps from the same collection.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7th century-8th century
Extent:
1 item

143. 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

144. Papyrus 965

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 965
Title:
Account (P.Lond. III 965, TM 22752)
Scope & Content:
Account of farm work, recording incomes and expenses stated in drachmas.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
after 260
Extent:

Papyrus sheet, lacking part of the bottom and with insect holes in the preserved portion mostly located along the horizontal folds; the sheet exhibits minor abrasion in its lower half. Writing is on one side across the fibres, the back being blank. There are 14 lines, well preserved; few of them are indented. Upper and side margins are extant; the lower margin is somewhat damaged. In the right edge and along the height of the sheet, there are traces of one line written along the fibres, which was erased. The papyrus is housed in a glass case.

145. Papyrus 2199

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2199
Title:
List of Items, especially Jewels (TM 828814)
Scope & Content:
A list of jewels and other items: in lines 1-14 are listed jewels (bracelets, rings, necklaces, earrings, and some pendants) and the correspondent weight of the objects; in lines 15-19 a very large quantity of lentils and some rolls of papyrus are enumerated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3rd century-4th century
Extent:

Fragmentary papyrus sheet written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank.

The text lacks the beginning and the end. The left margin measures c. 25 mm. A sheet-join is visible at c. 25 mm from the left.

There is a paragraphus between lines 14 and 15.

Under the same glass two more little fragments are preserved: whether they are further scraps of the same sheet remains unclear.

The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.

146. Papyrus 3110

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 3110
Title:
Private Letter (P.Michael. 38, TM 37343)
Scope & Content:
Private letter concerned with the purchase of a cloak on credit for the recipient from a certain Iulianus, for which the author of the letter will pay upon his arrival; with endorsement on the back.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
6th century
Extent:

Medium-brown papyrus sheet, lacking part of the bottom and damaged throughout; with writing on both sides. On the front, there are 14 lines written across the fibres; of the last, only a few traces survive; left and upper margins are extant, no margin was left to the right and the lower margin is partly damaged. On the back, there is one line written along the fibres at the top of the sheet. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.

147. Papyrus 644

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 644
Title:
Scope & Content:
FRAGMENTS Of a business document of uncertain nature, from the same mummy-case as the preceding. 2nd cent. B.C. Written across the papyrus-fibres in a rather large semi-cursive hand.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd century BC
Extent:
1 item

148. Papyrus 2912

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2912
Title:
Sale of a House (TM 653735)
Scope & Content:
Contract of sale of a building, possibly a house; the sellers are a group of individuals and the buyer one single man; only the subscription to the contract survives.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
2nd half of 5th century
Extent:

Three fragments of varying size from a papyrus sheet, containing the ends of nine lines; the upper fragment is upside down in the frame and a smaller fragment was incorrectly attached to it; the mid and bottom fragment were originally contiguous. Writing is on one side across the fibres. An average of 30 letters is lost on the left; the lower margin measures approximately 70 mm. Housed in one glass case, wrongly labelled as Papyrus 2912(2).

149. Papyrus 2039

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2039
Title:
Scope & Content:
SHEET of papyrus, very much stained and defaced, taken from Or. MS. 7027 and containing a Copic text only occasionally legible and, on the right half of the verso, a portion of a in Greek, probably of the 7th cent. 11 in. x 71/2 in. ferred from the Department of Orientals Printed Books and MSS. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7th century
Extent:
1 item

150. Papyrus 887

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 887
Title:
Petition (P.Lond. III 887, TM 78481)
Scope & Content:
Fragmentary petition, with the names of the writer and of the recipient being lost; the petitioner complains that his neighbour having dwellings in the same house-property had offered the petitioner’s property to another Egyptian for profit and had forcibly expelled him from his units; he asks t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3rd century BC
Extent:

Papyrus sheet, imperfect at the top and damaged by small insect holes throughout. The front bears 14 lines running across the fibres, some of which are damaged; lower and side margins are extant, the upper margin survives at the top right; very faded traces of ink are visible on the back. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.

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