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1. Papyrus 2237

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2237
Title:
Memorandum for a Trip to Constantinople (TM 381317)
Scope & Content:
recto: "Memorandum (Hypomnestikon) for Constantinople, to Menas of Oxyrhynchus" verso: "Memorandum from the comes Philias"
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
5th-6th century
Extent:
1 papyrus sheet, main text written transversa charta, address on the other side.

2. Papyrus 2293

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2293
Title:
Xenophon: Recollections of Socrates (Memorabilia) III, 6. 11-14 (TM 702957, LDAB 702957)
Scope & Content:
Fragment of a roll containing Xenophon's Memorabilia preserving III, 6. 11-14 in two fragmentary columns.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
2nd century
Extent:
Fragment of a papyrus roll, broken off at all sides, written on one side along the fibres, the back being blank. Parts of two columns are preserved. The papyrus is mounted in a glass frame.

3. Papyrus 1405

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1405
Title:
Miscellaneous Accounts (P.Lond. IV 1416A-G, TM 19861-19867)
Scope & Content:
Recto: - End of a column containing figures and followed by blank space; - (P.Lond. 1416A = TM 19863) Account concerning money taxes, of which the last lines and the total are lost. There is one introductory line under which several columns are arranged, mentioning names of places and various ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
732-733
Extent:

Long fragment of a papyrus roll, not fully preserved, written on both sides; on the verso, the texts are parallel partly to the length of the roll and partly to its breadth; an additional detached fragment has writing on the recto only. Housed in one glass frame.

4. Papyrus 189

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 189
Title:
List of Names (P.Lond. II 189, TM 28019)
Scope & Content:
List of names divided into groups, some of which with headings, with totals of men drawn beneath. One group has a cancelled title. Presumably the document is a list of men available for service rather than a roster of incumbents. At least four people may be identified with the men mentioned in S...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
2nd half of the 2nd century
Extent:

Fragment of a papyrus roll, written on one side along the fibres and well preserved, although the first column lacks its left-hand side; mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

5. Papyrus 1409

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 1409
Title:
Register of Taxes (P.Lond. IV 1414, TM 39747)
Scope & Content:
Register of taxes paid in money and kind, arranged on the basis of places: after the epoikia, monasteries are also mentioned. Taxes are both ordinary and extraordinary. Fol. 1r.-1v.: Small piece with no writing; Fol. 2r.: Taxes from Aphrodito: single taxes with deductions, quota and balance; ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
8th century
Extent:

Book of 14 wide folios, consisting of several fragments of various sizes; none of them is complete, and of the first only a small fragment with no writing survives. Folios 3 to 14 were mounted in separate glass frames; the fragments of folios 1 and 2 were framed together. The unwritten fragment of folio 1 is attached to the left-hand side of the larger fragment of folio 2; two additional fragments of folio 2 were acquired in 1926. Corrections are added in the interlinear space, and sometimes old figures are also underlined.

6. Papyrus 364

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 364
Title:
List of Priests (SB XVIII 13117, TM 25352)
Scope & Content:
Six fragments of a list of priests from Soknopaiou Nesos. The names of the priests, arranged on the basis of their φυλή, are followed, when preserved, by patronymic, papponymic, matronymic, age. In fr. F priests of different φυλαί aged twenty are listed.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
Mid 2nd century
Extent:

Six fragments from a papyrus roll mounted in one frame, written on one side along the fibres.

7. Papyrus 266

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 266
Title:
Accounts of Expenses (P. Lond. II 266, TM 25621)
Scope & Content:
Recto: columns 1-26: accounts with records of payments made for various purposes and arranged in sections, with several subdivisions, headed by names of persons; at the end of each section the amounts, calculated in talents and drachms, are summarised; columns 27-30: previously containing acc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Egyptian (Ancient) and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1st century
Extent:

Accounts from a papyrus roll, written on both sides: on the recto are 26 columns, besides four which were washed out to receive a Demotic text. The verso, unpublished, is the continuation of the recto, with further accounts arranged in 31 columns, of which the first 6 are so defaced as to be illegible.

The papyrus is currently mounted in a glass frame.

8. Papyrus 851

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 851
Title:
Extracts with Receipts (P.Lond. III 851, TM 22694)
Scope & Content:
Extracts of a register with receipts of payments for rent (in money and fleeces) addressed to Akouis, shepherd and tenant. The issuer is in most cases Hermias alias Apollonius, strategus of Alexandria, who has various managers and assistants. The receipts, written in different hands, date to a p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
216-219
Extent:
Long fragment of a papyrus roll, written on one side and well preserved, containing six columns, the first of which is lacking its left-hand side. Between columns 5-6 some space was left blank. Mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

9. Papyrus 2044

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2044
Title:
Petition to a Provincial Governor (P.Oxy. VI 904, TM 35311)
Scope & Content:
Petition to an unnamed provincial governor from someone having the status designation Flavius, who had replaced a certain Philoxenus in the post of riparius, but had not received the promised support in order to carry out his duties. The man is now asking to be released from this office and Phil...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
2nd half 5th century
Extent:

Long fragment from a papyrus roll, written on one side along the fibres, almost fully preserved with the exception of a gap affecting part of the left hand side of the last three lines. Mounted on cardboard in a glass frame.

10. Papyrus 138

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 138
Title:
Deed of sale (ChLA III 199; P.Ital. II 46; TM 114822)
Scope & Content:
Deed of sale made on behalf of a woman to a purchaser (both names are lost) at the price of 30 gold solidi. Only the pertinential formula survives, namely the section in which the scribe specifies that, if there are more assets belonging to the land in question, these will become property of the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
7th century
Extent:
A fragment from a papyrus roll. Mounted in glass.