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1261. Papyrus 1840

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1840
Title:
Loan of Seed-Corn (P.Hib. I 150 descr., TM 2830)
Scope & Content:
The priest Pasis acknowledges that he has received from Paris, agent of the nomarch Harimouthes, wheat, barley and olyra (emmer wheat), for a total value of 90 artabas of wheat, as seed for the royal holding he is renting. He undertakes to return the seed he has received and deliver the rent at ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
22 September-21 October 261 BC
Extent:

Dark-brown papyrus sheet reused as mummy cartonnage, broken off at the bottom, with plaster residue and surface damage; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. There are 21 lines, some of which badly damaged. Upper and side margins are minimal. The modern annotation in red refers to the publication in P.Hib. I. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

1262. Papyrus 1841

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1841
Title:
Fragment of a Contract (P.Hib. I 171, TM 2831)
Scope & Content:
Fragment extracted from mummy cartonnage containing the beginning of a contract, with the date including the list of eponymous priests.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
October-November 243 BC
Extent:

Medium-brown papyrus fragment recovered from mummy cartonnage; the writing runs on one side across the fibres; portions of 7 lines from the top of a column remain. The back is blank. The number in red refers to the publication in P.Hib. I. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

1263. Papyrus 1843

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1843
Title:
Land-Survey Register (P.Oxy. VI 918, TM 28335) and ‘Hellenica Oxyrhynchia’ (P.Oxy. V 842, TM 59483, LDAB 583, MP3 2189)
Scope & Content:
Recto (P.Oxy. VI 918, TM 28335): Land-survey register, arranged in several columns, some of which very damaged, and containing a list of plots of crown land in an unspecified village located in the south-west of the Arsinoite nome, near Ibion Argaiou. Individual holdings are grouped in larger pl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
2nd century-3rd century
Extent:

Fragments of varying size from a long papyrus roll, written on both sides and damaged throughout; originally consisting of approximately 230 fragments, some of which remain unplaced (those numbered as 16-72 and those unnumbered, housed in frame 4; fr. 65 does not belong here); housed in four glass frames, named Papyrus 1843(1), Papyrus 1843(2), Papyrus 1843(3), and Papyrus 1843(4).

1264. Papyrus 1847(A-C)

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1847(A-C)
Title:
(Pseudo-)Lucian, Lucius sive asinus (P.Lond.Lit. 194, TM 61437, LDAB 2582, MP3 1284.4) and History or Novel? (P.Lond.Lit. 116, TM 64452, LDAB 5676, MP3 2253)
Scope & Content:
Left fragment: A (P.Lond.Lit. 194, TM 61437, LDAB 2582, MPk3 1284.4: Containing a portion of the novel Lucius sive asinus, 47, 2-7, 4th c.). Right fragments: B-C (P.Lond.Lit. 116, TM 64452, LDAB 5676, Mertens-Pack3 2253): Fragments of unknown literary texts in prose, perhaps history or novel.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
4th century
Extent:

Mounted in glass; three codex-fragments, two of which belong together, written on both sides.

A: Dark parchment, the recto shows the left side of a column, the right side is broken off; the verso has the right side of a column.

B-C: Two smaller fragments on lighter parchment of the same codex.

B: Broken off at the top, bottom and right, 21 lines fragmentarily preserved on the recto, 20 on the verso.

C: Broken off at the top, 4 complete and 3 fragmentary lines preserved on the recto, 3 complete and 5 fragmentary lines on the verso.

1265. Papyrus 1858

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1858
Title:
Account of Expenses from the Archive of Dioscorus (P.Lond. V 1670, TM 19692)
Scope & Content:
Portion of an account of expenses, including tax payments made from the local treasury. It may be part of P.Cair.Masp I 67056. Written after 25 May 551.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
c. 551
Extent:
Medium-dark brown papyrus fragment, another portion of which may be a papyrus now in Cairo, published as P.Cair.Masp I 67056; complete at the top, bottom and right, broken off on the left; written on one side, the back being blank. On the front, there are 2 columns of 15 and 6 lines respectively, running along the fibre;, the first column lacks its left-hand half. A sheet-join runs vertically down the centre. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

1266. Papyrus 1862(A-G)

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1862(A-G)
Title:
Miscellaneous Texts (TM 60505-60506, 61278, 63517-63518, 65532)
Scope & Content:
Upper left fragment (A) (P.Lond.Lit. 3, TM 60505, LDAB 1628): Fragment of a papyrus containing Homer, Iliad I 608-611, with traces of line 607. Assigned to the second century. AD Second fragment from top (B) (P.Lond.Lit. 195, TM 65532, LDAB 6783): Fragment of an elegiac poem, or possibly a comm...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1st century BC-2nd century
Extent:

Seven papyrus fragments that do not belong together, housed in the same glass frame.

Upper left fragment (A): Medium-brown papyrus fragment, broken off on all sides; written on one side, the back being blank. On the front, there are portions of 4 lines written along the fibres, and traces of another line at the top. The back is dark-stained in places.

Second fragment from top (B): Medium-brown papyrus fragment, complete at the bottom (front), broken off on all sides; written on both sides. On the front, there are portions of 10 lines written along the fibres from the bottom of a column. The lower margin is extant. The back bears portions of 6 lines written across the fibres, the other way up in relation to the text on the front.

Upper right fragment (C): Medium-brown papyrus fragment, complete at the bottom and right, broken off on the other sides; written on one side; the back is blank. On the front, there are the ends of 7 lines from the foot of a column, written along the fibres. Right and lower margins survive, the lower being ample and measuring 40 mm.

Small fragment in the middle on the right (D): Light-brown papyrus fragment, broken off on all sides; the writing runs on one side, the back being blank. On the front, there are portions of 6 columns written along the fibres.

Lower left fragment (E): Medium-brown papyrus fragment, apparently broken off on all sides; written on both sides. On the front, there are portions of 9 lines written along the fibres, well-spaced; on the back, there are the beginnings of 22 lines written across the fibres.

Middle fragment at the bottom (F): Dark-brown papyrus fragment, of lighter colour on the back; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. On the front, there are a few letters from the ends of 17 lines.

Lower right fragment (G): Medium-brown papyrus fragment, complete at the bottom and right, broken off on the other sides; written on one side; the back is blank. On the front, there are the ends of 12 lines from the foot of a column, written along the fibres. Right and lower margins are minimal.

1267. Papyrus 1864

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1864
Title:
Order to Pay and Account (SB XX 14462, TM 14884, 14244)
Scope & Content:
Recto (TM 14884): Order of Alypius to Heroninus, estate manager, to deliver a quantity of vinegar to Palas, estate manager of Philoteris; with Palas’ acknowledgment of receipt. The beginning of the text is contained in P.Flor. II 164. Dated to 249-268. Verso (TM 14244): Account of wine by Heron...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
249-269
Extent:
Papyrus sheet of light colour, broken off at the top and bottom, lacking fibres in places and displaying other surface damage; written on both sides. On the front, there are 10 lines running along the fibres, the first and last being mutilated. Blank space separates lines 9 and 10. The left margins survives, and no margin was left to the right. The back bears portions of 21 lines, abraded, written across the fibres in the left-hand side of the sheet. One word is written along the fibres in the upper right corner. The upper portion of the sheet is a fragment housed in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, and published as P.Flor. II 164. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.

1268. Papyrus 1868

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1868
Title:
Excerpt from a Record of Proceedings (ChLA III + XLVIII 213, TM 99306), and Tax Account (TM 99307)
Scope & Content:
Recto (TM 99306): Excerpts from a record of proceedings in Latin according to P. van Minnen in CLTP*; letter or minute of audience according to R. Marichal in ChLA III 213 recto, probably before the governor of the Thebaid (name and title in Latin are lost). The word exempla (line 1) shows that ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek and Latin
Date Range:
5th century
Extent:
Fragment from a papyrus sheet, broken off on the left and right sides; written on both sides; on the recto there is one column written along the fibres. The verso bears the top of four columns written across the fibres and portions of another column of which only the beginnings of the lines survive. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.

1269. Papyrus 1869

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1869
Title:
Requisitions of Fodder (AfP 65 (2019), pp. 333-337, TM 837694)
Scope & Content:
List of requisitions of fodder from various Antinoite villages for the army or the administration; with heading stating the purpose and names of sixteen villages; the quantities of fodder may have followed; with check marks opposite most entries. On the back there are few letters of a column, p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
mid 7th century
Extent:

Papyrus fragment, broken off at the bottom and right and with some damage in the preserved portion; writing runs along the fibres on the front and across them on the back. On the front there are the beginnings of 19 lines; the left margin is extant and a sheet-join runs along the height of the papyrus at c. 20 mm from the left-hand edge. The back bears traces of a column, of which 1-4 letters survive; the text is written upside down in relation to the text on the front; the left margin is ample. The papyrus is housed in a glass case.

1270. Papyrus 1874

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1874
Title:
Dialogue on Odyssey (P.Lond.Lit. 160, TM 61147, LDAB 2286, MP3 1214)
Scope & Content:
Fragmentary dialogue on the Odyssey between Theophanes and another speaker, referring to the episode of the beggar Irus in Book XVIII. P.Giss.Lit. 2.9 (=P. BUG inv. 361, LDAB 2382) of the third century BC contains the same work.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1st century BC
Extent:
Five fragments of varying size from a papyrus roll, darker and with surface damage in places; written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. Fragment 1 bears portions of 2 columns of 12 and 11 lines respectively and part of the upper margin; fragment 2 preserves few letters of 6 and 10 lines from 2 columns; on fragment 3, remains of 4 lines survive; fragment 4, which is the largest, contains portions of 4 columns and the lower margin; fragment 5 bears traces of 2 lines. The column width is 70 mm. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

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