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032-001628746

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Add MS 34473

Title:

Fragments of parchment manuscripts, including fragments of Demosthenes, Herodotus, Parthenius, Lucan, an unknown Hellenistic epic poet, and a Psalter

Scope & Content:

Fragments of parchment manuscripts, including fragments of Demosthenes, Herodotus, Parthenius, Lucan, an unknown Hellenistic epic poet, and a Psalter.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

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Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts

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Add MS 34473, f 1 : P. Lond. Lit. 127. Portions of a manuscript of Demosthenes, De Falsa Legatione (TLG 0014.019). The MS was originally composed…
Add MS 34473, f 2 : P. Lond. Lit. 125. Fragments of a leaf of a manuscript of Demosthenes, In Aristogeitonem 1 (TLG 0014.025), containing parts…
Add MS 34473, f 3 : P. Lond. Lit. 41. Small fragment (45x60mm) of an Alexandrian hexameter poem on Heracles, containing portions of five lines on…
Add MS 34473, f 4 : P. Lond. Lit. 64. Parthenius of Nicaea, Epicedium on Timander (fr. 27 Lightfoot).Small fragment (92x50mm) of the top of a…
Add MS 34473, f 5 : P. Lond. Lit. 103. Small fragment (20x115mm) of a manuscript of Herodotus, evidently taken from the binding of another…
Add MS 34473, f 6 : P. Lond. Lit. 42. Small fragment (15x90mm) of a manuscript of Lucan, De Bello Ciuili, containing 2.247-248, 2.265-266. The…
Add MS 34473, f 7 : P. Lond. Lit. 208. Two bifolia from a Psalter, containing four folios in all, nearly perfect (Rahlfs 2016, Van Haelst 0172).…

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

7 items

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Greek, Ancient
Latin

Scripts:

Greek
Latin

Start Date:

0100

End Date:

0699

Date Range:

2nd century-7th century

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment fragments.

Dimensions: irregular. Framed in three glass cases: f 1 and f 7 in individual cases, and ff 2-6 in a single case.

Custodial History:

Provenance: Egypt, possibly the Fayum.

Purchased from Theodore Graf, 11 April 1893.

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1888-1893, London 1894, pp. 338-339.

F. G. Kenyon, 'Two new MSS. in the British Museum', Journal of Philology 22 (1894) pp. 238–261, pp. 247-261 [f 1 ed.].

A. Rahlfs, Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments, Göttingen 1914, no. 2016 [f 7].

H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum, London 1927, pp. 33-34 [f 3 ed.] 34 [f 6 ed.],47-48 [f 4 ed.], 82 [f 5 ed.], 95 [f 2 descr.], 97 [f 1 descr.], 173-176 [f 7 ed.].

E. A. Lowe, Codices Latini Antiquiores, Part 2, Great Britain and Ireland, Oxford 1935, no. 175 [f 6].

A. H. R. E. Paap, De Herodoti reliquiis in papyris et membranis Aegyptiis servatis (Papyrologica lugduno-batava 4), Leiden 1948, pp. 72-73, no. 14 [f 5 ed.].

R. Cavenaile, Corpus papyrorum Latinarum, Wiesbaden 1958, no. 36 [f 6 ed.].

H. J. Mette, 'Der sogenannte Londoner Parthenios', Rheinisches Museum 107 (1964) pp. 299–302 [f 4 ed.].

J. Van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires juifs et chrétiens (Série Papyrologie 1), Paris 1976, no. 172 [f 7].

B. Hausmann, Demosthenis fragmenta in papyris et membranis servata (Papyrologica florentina 4, 8), 2 vols, Firenze 1978-1981, vol. 1, no. 24 [f 1 ed.], no. 39 [f 2 ed.].

Supplementum Hellenisticum, ed. byH. Lloyd-Jones and P. Parsons, 2 vols, Berlin 1983-2005, vol. 1, no. 626 [f 4 ed.].

J. L. Lightfoot, Parthenius of Nicaea, Oxford 1999, pp. 114-117, 170-176, fr. 27 [f 4 ed.].

M. Perale, 'Un nuova frammento della "membrana Grafiana"', Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 172 (2010), pp. 22–26. [On f 1.]

Serena Ammirati, Sul libro latino antico. Ricerche bibliologiche e paleografiche, (Pisa-Roma, 2015), p. 81 [On f. 6]

Maria Chiara Scappaticcio, ‘Leggere epica nella Pars Orientis dell’Impero: (Lucano e) i papiri latini’, in Letture e lettori di Lucano. Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi (Fisciano 27-29 marzo 2012), ed. by Paolo Esposito and Christine Walde (Pisa 2015), pp. 255-269 [On f. 6]

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Graf, Theodore, antiquarian and academic, 1840-1903