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Fragment of a medium-brown papyrus, another fragment of which now at the Sackler Library, Oxford, inventoried as 89A/45(d). Writing runs on both sides. The front contains one column running along the fibres and lacking the left-hand side. Upper, lower and right margins are extant, the right being ample. The back bears one complete column and portions of another column written across the fibres. Upper, lower and left margins are extant. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.

Fragments of a papyrus roll, another portion of which is preserved in a papyrus of the collection in Heidelberg, inventoried as P. G. 1288; broken off to the left and damaged at the bottom and along the vertical folds.Two columns survive, the first lacking the right-hand half, and the second almost complete. Right, upper and lower margins measure 45-60 mm, 30 mm, and 45-60 mm respectively. The intercolumn measures 13-30 mm. There are two lines, rubbed off, in the lower right corner. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

Four fragments of varying size from a papyrus of good quality, further fragments of which are in Cairo (P.Gr. inv.no. 10349) and Heidelberg (P.Gr. inv.no. 1285). The fragments bear writing on one side along the fibres, the back being blank, but the Cairo fragment has four lines in a different hand on the back. The original text on the front consisted of one broad column of 33 lines. The BL fragments preserve the upper margin (25 mm), the lower (90 mm), and the right (10 mm), where a sheet-join is visible at c. 5-10 mm from the right edge. They are mounted on cardboard in a glass case.

Fragment of a light-brown papyrus sheet, broken off at the left and with minor surface damage in the preserved portion. Writing runs across the fibres on one side, the back being blank. There are 6 lines lacking the beginnings; upper, right and lower margins are extant. Folding lines are visible. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.

Papyrus sheet, bearing writing on both sides, along the fibres on the recto and across them on the verso. On the recto, strips of horizontal fibres are missing; the lower margin measures 105 mm. Traces of 10 lines are preserved, but the original text was washed off and the papyrus was re-used for the text on the verso. The verso originally hosted a Greek text, written along the fibres, which was washed out to host the second text running across the fibres. Strips of vertical fibres are missing. The upper margin survives to 40 mm. The papyrus is mounted in a glass case.

Fragment of a papyrus sheet of poor quality, broken off at the top and left and damaged at the bottom, especially along the vertical folds. The sheet lacks some horizontal fibres on the recto. Writing is on both sides: the recto has an original text, of which only the bottom right portion survives, written along the fibres; the original lower margin of the sheet, measuring 70 mm, hosts a second text, written across the fibres at the right angle to the first. The verso contains a third text, written across the fibres and complete. The side margins are minimal, the upper and lower measure 19 mm. The papyrus is housed in a glass case.

The upper left portion of a papyrus sheet, the top left part of which is preserved in a Heidelberg papyrus inventoried as 1280. The lower half of the sheet is lost. The BL fragment bears writing on one side along the fibres, the back being blank, but the Heidelberg fragment has the docket on the back. In the BL fragment there are six more lines than the Heidelberg piece. The BL papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.

Papyrus sheet, fully preserved although damaged by holes along the horizontal and two vertical folds. Writing is on both sides, along the fibres on the recto and across them on the verso. On the recto, all margins are extant, with the upper margin of 32 mm, the lower of 55 mm and the left of 20 mm; the right margin is minimal. A sheet-join runs across the fibres at c. 6 mm from the right edge. The verso has a docket arranged in two columns, the first with two lines and the second with three lines. The papyrus is housed in a glass case.

Three fragments of varying size of a papyrus sheet, the first two from the upper part and the third from the lower portion of the sheet. Other fragments of the same sheet are a papyrus in Cairo, inventoried as 10354, and a papyrus in New York, Piermont Morgan Library, inventoried as 166. Writing runs across the fibres on the recto; only the upper fragment bears writing on the back, with the text running along the fibres, upside down in relation to the text on the front. The fragments are housed in a glass case.