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Project / Collection Papyri Collections Name Demosthenes, statesman and orator, 384 BC-322 BC Digitised Content Platform BL Digitised Manuscripts (2024-)

1. Papyrus 108

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 108
Title:
Hyperides, Orations Against Demosthenes and in Defense of Lycophron (P.Lond.Lit. 132, TM 61281, LDAB 2423, MP3 1233)
Scope & Content:
Papyrus 108 is now in 13 frames labelled from Papyrus 108 (1) - Papyrus 108 (13), each of which houses one or more numbered fragments. Contents of the separate frames are described against the edition of Jensen (Jensen, Hyperidis, (1917)). Papyrus 108 (1) Fragment 1 = Hyperides: In Demosthene...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
75-125
Extent:

39 fragments of a papyrus roll now mounted in 13 glass cases. Other portions of the same roll are now Papyrus 115 (1-2) and Cambridge, St John's College Aa 5.1; Paris, Louvre 1169 and Rossale School (Fragmenta Tancockiana).

2. Papyrus 131

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 131
Title:
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.

3. Papyrus 133

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 133
Title:
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.

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