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Add MS 33270
- Record Id:
- 032-001617598
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001617598
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000035.0x0001f1
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 33270
- Title:
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Tachygraphic Commentary (TM 64313)
- Scope & Content:
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Tablets inscribed with shorthand symbols of a tachygraphic commentary (signs 1-785, 1-466, 278-579) and a few memoranda in Greek. Three series of the commentary are preserved in whole or in part. Each sign is written by the pupil four times to represent the tetrad, but without the addition of tetradic syllables. Occasionally, however, the final syllable of the pentad crosses the last occurrence of the sign.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001617598
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001617598
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- A waxen book, consisting of seven wooden tablets coated with wax on both sides and two covers waxed on inner side, making nine tables. The leather thongs with which the tablets were bound and fragments of the leather laces, which formed the hinges, remain. In one of the covers, a groove is hollowed for the reception of the writing implement.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0200
- End Date:
- 0399
- Date Range:
- 3rd century-4th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Restrictions to access apply please consult British Library staff
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Wood.
Dimensions: 223 x 167 x 6-8 mm.
Script: Tachygraphy and cursive writing. The book is inscribed with documents written with a stylus in shorthand symbols.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Egypt. Purchased of Dr Lippermann, 2 April 1887.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1882-1887 (London: Trustees of the British Museum 1889), pp. 285-86 no. 33,270.
F. Foat, 'On Old Greek Tachygraphy’, Journal of Hellenic Studies, 21 (1901), pp. 238-67.
C. Johnen, Geschichte der stenographie im zusammenhang mit der allgemeinen entwicklung der schrift und der schriftkürzung (Berlin: F. Schrey 1911), p. 123.
H. Milne, Greek Shorthand Manuals, Syllabary and Commentary edited from papyri and waxed tablets in the British Museum and from the Antinoë papyri in the possession of the Egypt exploration society (London, Antrim, N.H.: Egypt Exploration Society 1934), pp. 7-8.
M. Richard, Inventaire des Manuscrits Grecs du British Museum (Paris: C.N.R.S. 1952; Publications de l’Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes 3), p. 55.
R. Pack, The Greek and Latin Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt, (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 1965), no. 2758.
K. Painter, ‘A Roman Writing Tablet from London’, British Museum Quarterly, 31 (1967), pp. 105-106, no. 11.
F. Giulietti, Storia delle scritture veloci (Firenze: Giunti G. Barbèra 1968), plate 9.
R. Büll, Das grosse Buch vom Wachs, I, II (München: Callwey 1977), ill. 580.
D. Diringer, The Book before Printing (New York: Dover 1982), p. 32.
W. Brashear, F.A.C. Hoogendijk, ‘Corpus Tabularum Lignearum Ceratarumque Aegyptiarum’, Enchoria, 17 (1990), p. 50, no. 107.
S. Tovar, K. Worp, To the Origins of Greek Stenography (P.Monts.Roca I). (Barcelona: Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat; [Madrid]: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas 2006).
K. Worp, A New Survey of Greek, Coptic, Demotic and Latin Tabulae Preserved from Classical Antiquity (Leiden-Leuven: Trismegistos Online Publications 2012; Version 1.0), p. 29, no. 175.
Metadata provided by The Center for the Tebtunis Papyri, University of California, Berkeley.
- Exhibitions:
- Writing: Making Your Mark, British Library, 26 April 2019 - 27 August 2019
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)