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92. Papyrus 123
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 123
- Title:
- Magical Text (P.Lond. I 123, PGM (2) II 9, 30, TM 64577, LDAB 5807)
- Scope & Content:
- Magical text containing an invocation to the Gnostic deity Bainchoch; the first line, then repeated in line 12, is iambic. On the back there is a sketch of two figures: a baboon and a divinity (Horus or Harpocrates?) with hawk head holding an ‘ankh’ in his hand.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Date Range:
- 4th century-5th century
- Extent:
-
A light-brown papyrus sheet, fully preserved, containing writing on one side across the fibres and a drawing on the other side; mounted in glass.
93. Papyrus 124
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 124
- Title:
- Magical Spells (P.Lond. I 124, Pap.Graec.Mag.(2) II 10, TM 64532, LDAB 5760)
- Scope & Content:
- Magical spells serving various purposes: Column 1: Love spell; Column 2, lines 1-5: Spell to restrain anger, with drawing of the metal leaf (lamella) to be inscribed with charakteres and letters. Column 2, line 6-end: Spell of submission of Apollon, with the inscribed metal leaf (lamella) con...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Date Range:
- 4th century-5th century
- Extent:
-
Sheet of light-brown papyrus, lacking the left hand-side, damaged along the vertical folds; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. It preserves two columns, the first lacking the beginnings of the lines. Upper, right and lower margins are extant. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
94. Papyrus 125
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 125
- Title:
- Account of Expenses (P.Lond. I 125 ro., TM 33213), and Magical Text (P.Lond. I 125 vo., Pap.Graec.Mag. (2) II 11a, TM 64578, LDAB 5808)
- Scope & Content:
- Recto (P.Lond. I 125 ro., TM 33213): Account of expenses of an estate, recording payments made to various individuals and stated in artabas of wheat; dated to July 336. Verso (P.Lond. I 125 vo., Pap.Graec.Mag. (2) II 11a, TM 64578, LDAB 5808): Magical text, Apollonius of Tyana’s old serving wom...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Date Range:
- 4th century
- Extent:
-
A fragment of a light-brown papyrus roll, bearing writing on both sides, along the fibres on the front and across them on the back. Damage is located along the vertical folds. The front preserves three columns, the third of which is mutilated; upper and lower margins are extant. The back contains two columns, which are complete; all margins are extant. The intercolumn is irregular. The papyrus is housed in a glass case.
95. Papyrus 126
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 126
- Title:
- ‘Harris Homer Codex’ (P.Lond.Lit. 5 ro., TM 61277, LDAB 2419, MP3 634), Tryphon, Ars grammatica (P.Lond.Lit. 5 vo., P.Lond.Lit. 182 TM/LDAB 110341, MP3 1539), and Accounts (TM 91831)
- Scope & Content:
- Single-quire codex of 18 folios, containing Iliad II 101-493; III 1-491; IV 1-40 on the right-hand pages, with end-titles, additions and corrections, and numbers of lines to the page and of lines of the books at the bottom. Some of the pages originally left blank were reused to host Tryphon’s Ar...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 3rd century
- Extent:
-
9 sheets of a papyrus codex, dark-stained, housed in 9 glass frames named Papyrus 126(1), Papyrus 126(2), Papyrus 126(3), Papyrus 126(4), Papyrus 126(5), Papyrus 126(6), Papyrus 126(7), Papyrus 126(8), Papyrus 126(9). The sheets were folded in half to form two leaves, making a single-quire codex of 18 folios (36 pages); the holes of the binding are still visible. The codex belong to Turner’s group ‘aberrant I’ (‘much higher than broader’). The codex was at first only written on the right-hand pages, and later reused to host additional writing on the left-hand pages. Each of the right-hand pages bear one column of 48-54 lines, the column measuring 255 x 125 mm. Upside-down in relation to the first text on the right side, further texts were added on the left-hand pages of Papyrus 126(1) recto, Papyrus 126(2) recto, Papyrus 126(3) recto; 21 additional lines were written upside down in relation to the text on the right-hand page in Papyrus 126(5)verso.
96. Papyrus 127
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 127
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
- Pap. CXXVII. HOMER'S ILIAD; fragments of books v., vi., xviii. Each book is in a different hand, and probably belonged originally to a different MS. The portions of the text contained in the fragments are as follows, but in no case is a complete line preserved :- (a) Il. v. 731-734, 815-818, 8...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Date Range:
- 2nd century
- Extent:
- 1 item
97. Papyrus 128
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 128
- Title:
- Scope & Content:
- Pap. CXXVIII. HOMER'S ILIAD; fragments of books xxiii., xxiv. The following lines are preserved, in whole or in part: xxiii. 1-79, 402-633, 638-897, xxiv. 1-83 (ll.1-40 in a different hand), 100-144, 150-243, 248-282, 337-341, 344-351, 382-387, 402-479, 490-520, 536-548, 559-579, 596-611, 631-65...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 1st century
- Extent:
- 1 item
98. Papyrus 129
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 129
- Title:
- Accounts and Homer, Iliad I (P.Lond.Lit. 1, TM 60504, LDAB 1627, MP3 567)
- Scope & Content:
- Recto: Portions of accounts. Unpublished. Verso: Homer, Iliad I: ends of Iliad I 37-54, with traces of further lines at top and bottom; Iliad I 62-67; first letters of Iliad I 72-79; ends of Iliad I 207-229.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Date Range:
- 2nd century
- Extent:
-
Three fragments of varying size from a papyrus roll, with surface damage; written on both sides, along the fibres on the front and across them on the back. Each side bears portions of 3 columns. On the back, the text was written upside down in relation to the text on the front. Each column would have had an average of 35 lines; the intercolumn is of varying width. The fragments are mounted in two glass frames bound as a booklet.
99. Papyrus 130
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 130
- Title:
- Horoscope (P.Lond. I 130, TM 23940)
- Scope & Content:
- Horoscope, cast for 31 March 81, the third hour of the night, written by Titus Pitenius, with an introductory letter addressing a certain Hermon. Pitenius has calculated the astrological data for the Sun, Moon and five planets basing his computations on the “perpetual tables”; detailed expositio...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Date Range:
- after 13 September 81
- Extent:
-
Papyrus roll, with a detached fragment, written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank; mounted on cardboard in two glass frames named Papyrus 130(1) and Papyrus 130(2).
Papyrus 130(1): 7 columns, of 22-30 lines, each line having an average of 15-18 letters, and another short column of 7 lines in the left-hand margin; with some breaks along the vertical folds, and a couple of small insect holes; abraded in places; upper and lower margins extant.
Papyrus 130(2): with surface damage and mutilated in the right-hand side; one column and two additional lines on the right-hand side.
100. Papyrus 130(1)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 130(1)
- Title:
- Part 1 of the horoscope
- Scope & Content:
- Part of the horoscope, cast for 31 March 81, the third hour of the night, written by Titus Pitenius, with an introductory letter addressing a certain Hermon. Pitenius has calculated the astrological data for the Sun, Moon and five planets basing his computations on the “perpetual tables”; detail...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Date Range:
- c. 81
- Extent:
-
Portion of a papyrus roll, written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank; mounted on cardboard in a glass frame. On the front, there are 7 columns, of 22-30 lines, each line having an average of 15-18 letters, and another short column of 7 lines in the left-hand margin; with some breaks along the vertical folds, and a couple of small insect holes; abraded in places; upper and lower margins extant.