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1621. Papyrus 2017

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2017
Title:
Settlement of a Dispute (SB VI 8988, TM 17841)
Scope & Content:
Settlement through Aquilian stipulation of a dispute over possession of a parcel of a house-property in Apollonopolis between Ioannes, deacon from Apollonopolis, and Philemon and his wife Thekla, resolved in favour of the latter. The share had been previously mortgaged by a certain Thekla, Ioann...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
16 July 647
Extent:
Papyrus roll, complete and well preserved, written on one side; mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

1622. Papyrus 2018

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2018
Title:
Sale of Part of a House (SB VI 8987, TM 17840)
Scope & Content:
Deed of sale drawn up in Oxyrhynchus, in which Philemon and Thekla purchased part of a house in Apollonopolis from Elisabeth and Iustina, heirs and successors of a certain Thekla, who had mortgaged part of the house as security for a loan. With autograph subscriptions of the witnesses; tachygraph...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
644-645
Extent:
Two fragments of the same document from a papyrus roll, the first containing lines 1-31, the second lines 32-52; written on one side and well preserved, although lacking a few letters on the left-hand side. Mounted on cardboard and housed in two glass frames.

1623. Papyrus 2019

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2019
Title:
Marriage Contract (SB VI 8986, TM 17839)
Scope & Content:
Marriage contract between a certain Heraclides from Apollonopolis and the daughter of Philemon and Thecla from Apollonopolis. Dated to the 31st year of Heraclius and Heraclius Neos Constantinus, Mecheir, 14th indiction. The papyrus belongs to the archive of Philemon and Thecla.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
26 Jan-24 Feb 641
Extent:

Fragment from a papyrus roll written on one side, lacking the left-hand side; the preserved portion is in good condition. Mounted on cardboard in one glass frame.

1624. Papyrus 2020

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2020
Title:
Testamentum Vetus (Theodotion), Daniel (P.Lond.Lit. 211, TM 62329, LDAB 3493)
Scope & Content:
Parchment fragment containing Theodotion’s version of Daniel I:17-18. A few variants occur.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1st half of the 4th century
Extent:

Fragment of a parchment roll or codex, reused for the binding of Or. 7594. Writing is on one side only. 8 lines from a column survive; they are almost complete, lacking 1-3 letters to the left and occasionally 1-2 letters to the right. The fragment is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.

1625. Papyrus 2037

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2037
Title:
Hymn in Honour of Patriarch Severus (P.Lond.Lit. 237, TM 65199, LDAB 6441), Evening Hymn (P.Lond.Lit. 244, TM 65200, LDAB 6442), Homer, Iliad IX (P.Lond.Lit. 18, TM 60830, LDAB 1958, MP3 836) Pseudo-Eusebius, Sermo 17 (P.Lond.Lit. 245, TM 62677, LDAB 3865, MP3 2638), Anaphora of St. Mark and Prayer of Thanksgiving (P.Lond.Lit. 232, TM 65198, LDAB 6440)
Scope & Content:
A (P.Lond.Lit. 237, TM 65199, LDAB 6441): Metrical hymn in honour of Patriarch Severus of Antioch (5-6th c.). The preserved part mentions the singers of the hymn as praising Severus. 8th century. B (P.Lond.Lit. 244, TM 65200, LDAB 6442): Fragment of an evening hymn known since the 4th century a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
3rd century-8th century
Extent:

The frame contains five fragments: two come from a papyrus sheet, one from a papyrus codex, one from parchment codex and another from a parchment sheet or rotulus.

A: Fragment of a papyrus sheet, writing on one side only across the fibres, mounted in glass. Complete on the left and right margin, incomplete on the top and the bottom.

b: Fragment of a papyrus sheet. Incomplete on all sides. Two fragmentary lines written along the fibres.

c: Fragment of a papyrus codex. Written in black ink along the fibres on the front and across them on the back.

d: Fragment of a parchment codex written on both sides with a brownish ink.

E-F: Two joined fragments of a parchment sheet or rotulus, complete only at the bottom. Written on both sides in black ink.

1626. Papyrus 2038

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2038
Title:
Fragment of an Official Document (SB IV 7380, TM 36233)
Scope & Content:
A fragment of a document issued by Flavius(?) Aineias, praeses of the Lower Thebaid.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
c. 316
Extent:

Papyrus fragment, broken on all sides. Writing runs on the front along the fibres, the back having one trace. A few letters of 5 lines are preserved on the front. The papyrus is housed in a glass case.

1627. 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

1628. Papyrus 2040

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2040
Title:
Julius Africanus’ Cesti (P.Oxy. III 412, P.Lond.Lit. 174, TM 61406, LDAB 2550, MP3 53), and Will of Hermogenes (P.Oxy. VI 907, TM 20370)
Scope & Content:
Recto (P.Oxy. III 412, P.Lond.Lit. 174, TM 61406, LDAB 2550, MP3 53): Two columns numbered as 35 and 36 at the top, containing the ending of Book 18 of Sextus Julius Africanus’ Cesti, quoting passages of the Odyssey and Iliad and discussing the authenticity of some verses containing a spell. Wit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
225-276
Extent:

Fragment of a papyrus roll, which was re-used for the text on the verso. Writing runs along the fibres on the recto and across them on the verso. Vertical folds are visible.

The recto preserves two columns of different length, the first, mutilated to the left, with 43 lines, the second, complete, with 28 lines. The columns were numbered on top as 35 and 36. The intercolumn measures 20-27 mm, the lower margin 43 mm, the upper 24 mm, and the right 25 mm.

The back has one column written upside down in relation to the text on the front, with long lines mutilated to the right. The upper, left and lower margins measure 20, 20, 60 mm respectively. The number in red refers to the publication in P.Oxy. VI.

The papyrus is housed in a glass case.

1629. Papyrus 2041

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2041
Title:
Acts of Peter (P. Oxy. 6 849; P. Lond. Lit. 221; van Haelst 603; CANT 190.II; TM 64453)
Scope & Content:
Acts of Peter (chapter 25-26 of the long Latin recension in the original Greek)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1st half of 4th century
Extent:
1 leaf of a parchment codex, written on both sides.

1630. Papyrus 2042

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2042
Title:
Copy of a Birth Declaration (P.Oxy. VI 894, Chrest.Wilck. 213, CPL 158; ChLA III + XLVIII 214, TM 20356)
Scope & Content:
The document is a copy of a birth declaration of a legitimate Roman child, whose name is almost completely lost (line 6: ]num). As the piece was found in Oxyrhynchus and the declaration (professio) took place at the prefect’s office in Alexandria, we can surmise that this is the copy given to th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek and Latin
Date Range:
195-196
Extent:

Fragment from a papyrus sheet, complete on the right and broken off on all other sides. Written on both sides: on the front, there are lines written along the fibres in one column, on the back, there are traces of Latin writing, perhaps figures. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.

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