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51. Papyrus 51(A)

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 51(A)
Title:
Fragment of a Petition (UPZ II 152, P.Lond. I 51(a), TM 3553)
Scope & Content:
Fragment of a petition to the King from the priests (pastophoroi) of the god Amenophis, who are apparently being wronged by a police officer (phylakites); reference to rent is made; with further writing on the left margin and on the back.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3rd century BC
Extent:
Left-hand portion of medium-brown papyrus sheet, bearing writing on both sides. On the front, there survives the left-hand portion of one column of text, running along the fibres; the upper and left margins are generous; at the bottom of the left margin there are the beginnings of 9 lines, which may not belong to the same text. A sheet-join runs along the left edge. On the back, there are portions of 6 lines running across the fibres. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame, with a small opening for the text on the back.

52. Papyrus 52

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 52
Title:
Scope & Content:
TWELVE fragments of Coptic Papyri, laid down on goldbeater's skin, which were previously formed into a roll.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

53. Papyrus 53

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 53
Title:
Scope & Content:
FRAGMENT of a roll on leather, measuring 14 inches in height by 7 inches in width, containing twenty-seven lines in Arabic, being the names of witnesses to a deed of sale; probably of the xiiith century.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[13th century]
Extent:
1 item

54. Papyrus 75

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 75
Title:
Account (SB I 5316, TM 26063)
Scope & Content:
Account with names and quantities of unknown items.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1st century-2nd century
Extent:
1 Papyrus, incomplete, broken off at left, bottom and right, margins preserved at top; 12 lines on recto, written along the fibres, verso blank, housed in a glass frame.

55. Papyrus 76

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 76
Title:
Scope & Content:
Pap. LXXVI. A GRANT of land to the abbat of St. Phœbammon, near Thebes; in Coptic. Probably of the ixth century. Purchased in the year 1854. Djeme, Thebes, Egypt: Grant of land to the Abbat of St. Phobammon at: 9th cent.: Coptic. Coptic Language: Deeds of gift, wills, etc.,: 8th, 9th centt. P...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Coptic and English
Date Range:
[9th century]
Extent:
1 item

56. Papyrus 77

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 77
Title:
The Will of Abraham, Bishop of Hermonthis (P. Lond. I. 77; TM 39851)
Scope & Content:
The Will of Abraham, Bishop of Hermonthis, or Harment, anchoret of the Memnonium [Djeme, near Thebes], son of Sabinus and Rebecca, bequeathing the cell of St. Phoebammon and all his property to Victor, priest and monk. Attested by the Bishop; by the scribe, Joseph son of John, who wrote the docu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
600-625
Extent:
1 sheet, writing on one side only, mounted in glass.

57. Papyrus 98

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 98
Title:
Greek and Old Coptic Horoscope (P.Lond. I. 98; P.Copt. 366, TM 23938), and Hyperides' Funeral Oration over Leosthenes (P.Lond.Lit. 133, TM 61282)
Scope & Content:
Recto: lines 1-115 - Greek horoscope for the year 95CE lines 116-18 - The Old Coptic Horoscope Verso: The Funeral Oration of Hyperides over Leosthenes (TLG 0030.006)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Coptic and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
95-199
Extent:

15 fragments of a roll, written on both sides, framed and glazed.

58. Papyrus 99

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 99
Title:
Accounts (P.Lond. I 99 + BL I pp. 228-229, TM 33212)
Scope & Content:
Accounts arranged in columns damaged throughout, listing places in the Memphite nome and people with sums stated in artabas; an eight year of an unnamed emperor is mentioned at the beginning (possibly 370-371). On the recto, at the end of columns 1-2 a different hand, which is to be found on the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
4th century
Extent:

Fragments of varying size from a papyrus roll, with broken columns both on recto and verso, written along and across the fibres respectively; on the back is also a line written along the fibres. Additional fragments of varying size are housed in a separate frame, named Papyrus 99*.

59. Papyrus 106

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 106
Title:
Petition to the King (P.Lond. I 106, UPZ II 151, TM 2975)
Scope & Content:
A petition addressed to the king Ptolemy by Areus, complaining about an act of violence perpetrated by Cephalon in front of witnesses. Areus asks for the matter to be investigated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
After 9 August 259 BC
Extent:

Papyrus sheet, with detached fragment at the bottom, lacking the right upper edge and broken off at the bottom; with surface damage in the preserved portion. Writing runs along the fibres on one side, the back being blank. Upper and left margins are preserved, no margin was left to the right and the lower margin is lost. A sheet-join runs across the fibres and along the lower half of the right edge. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in glass.

60. Papyrus 107

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 107
Title:
The ‘Harris Homer Roll' (P.Lond.Lit. 25, TM 60340, LDAB 1461, MP3 953)
Scope & Content:
The papyrus, known as the ‘Harris Homer’, contains nearly the entire book XVIII of the Iliad; 12 columns are preserved, 5 in Papyrus 107 (1), the fifth only having the beginning of the lines, and 7 in Papyrus 107 (2). Of the lines omitted by the original scribe, vv. 200, 201, 381, 427 and 441 we...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1st-2nd century
Extent:

Two portions of a dark papyrus roll, written on one side along the fibres and preserving 12 columns, one of which only has the beginning of the lines; each column has between 41-45 lines, with one column of 49 lines; with protokollon (first sheet of the roll) of 50 mm and agraphon (blank space) of 180 mm; with corrections and additions by a later hand; housed in two glass frames, the second being mounted on glassine.

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