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Egerton Papyrus 3
- Record Id:
- 040-001982505
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001982502
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000116.0x00010a
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100142973811.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Egerton Papyrus 3
- Title:
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Origen’s Commentaries? (P.Lond.Christ. 2, TM 62337, LDAB 3501)
- Scope & Content:
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Fragments of a papyrus codex perhaps containing a commentary on the Gospel of John or the Genesis attributed to Origen. Biblical quotations occur. Further fragments of the same codex are in Florence.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Papyri Collections
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001982502
040-001982505 - Is part of:
- Egerton Papyrus 1-37 : Egerton Papyri
Egerton Papyrus 3 : Origen’s Commentaries? (P.Lond.Christ. 2, TM 62337, LDAB 3501) - Hierarchy:
- 032-001982502[0003]/040-001982505
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Egerton Papyrus 1-37
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Nine fragments of varying size and colour from the same papyrus codex as some fragments housed in the Istituto Papirologico ‘G. Vitelli’, Florence (PSI inv. 2101). The British Library fragments were originally fifteen, some of which joined to form two larger fragments; they come from two pages of the codex. Writing is on both sides, along and across the fibres. Some surface damage is located especially on the side written across the fibres. Each page contained two columns; each line had an average of 19-21 letters. The intercolumn survives in some of the fragments. The fragments are housed in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100142973811.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0250
- End Date:
- 0299
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of 3rd century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Reconstructed dimensions of the leaf: 155 x 152 mm. Fragments of different sizes: larger: 153 x 85 mm. Housed in a glass case measuring 180 x 165 mm.
Script: Small, neat, sloping oval uncial; diaeresis, rough breathing and occasional punctutation occur; nomina sacra contracted.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Oxyrhynchus (?), Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt. Bought with a lot comprising Egerton Papyri 2-31 from Maurice Nahman (b. 1868, d. 1948) by the British Museum on 28 July 1934, using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829)).
- Former External References:
- P.Lond.Christ. 2
- Publications:
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H. I. Bell, T. C. Skeat, Fragments of an Unknown Gospel and Other Early Christian Papyri (London: The Trustees of the British Museum 1935), pp. 42-51, no. 2.
R. M. Grant, Second-Century Christianity: A Collection of Fragments (London: S.P.C.K. 1946), pp. 53-54.
R. M. Grant, ‘More Fragments of Origen?, Vigiliae Christianae 2 (1948), pp. 243-247.
R. Leaney, ‘The Authorship of Egerton Papyrus No. 3’, Vigiliae Christianae 9 (1955), pp. 212-217.
H. Chadwick, ‘The Authorship of Egerton Papyrus No. 3’, The Harvard Theological Review 49 (1956), pp. 145-151.
K. McNamee, ‘Origen in the Papyri’, Classical Folia 27 (1973), pp. 28-53.
J. van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires juifs et chrétiens (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne 1976), no. 691 descr.
E. G. Turner, The typology of the early codex (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 1977), p. 134 and passim.
M. Naldini, ‘Nuovi frammenti origeniani (PSI inv. 2101)’, Prometheus 4 (1978), pp. 97-108.
M. Naldini, ‘Ancora sui nuovi frammenti origeniani (PSI inv. 2101)’, Prometheus 6 (1980), pp. 80-82.
K. Treu, ‘Christliche Papyri VIII’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 28 (1982), pp. 91-98 (p. 95, n. 961).
K. Aland, Repertorium der griechischen christlichen Papyri II. Kirchenväter (Berlin-New York: W. De Gruyter 1995), pp. 449-451, KV 69.
L. W. Hurtado, The Earliest Christian Artifacts: Manuscripts and Christian Origins (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans; Edinburgh: Alban [distributor] 2006), p. 167, and no. 204.
R. Pintaudi, ‘Orig. Alex. In Psalmos (MPG XII 1261, 20-22)?’, Analecta Papyrologica 18-20 (2006-2008), pp. 23-26 (p. 24).
R. Yuen-Collingridge, ‘Hunting for Origen in Unidentified Papyri: The Case of P.Egerton 2 (= Inv. 3)’, in T. J. Kraus, T. Nicklas (eds.), Early Christian manuscripts: examples of applied method and approach (Leiden-Boston: Brill 2010), pp. 39-57.
E. Giannarelli, ‘Papiri, letteratura cristiana antica e apocrifi del Nuovo Testamento: apporti e problem vecchi e nuovi’, in G. Bastianini, A. Casanova (eds.), I papiri letterari cristiani. Atti del convegno internazionale di studi in memoria di Mario Naldini, Firenze 10-11 giugno 2010 (Studi e Testi di Papirologia, N.S. 13) (Firenze: Istituto Papirologico “G. Vitelli” 2011), pp. 107-122 (p. 116).
L. H. Blumell, T. A. Wayment, Christian Oxyrhynchus: Texts, Documents, and Sources (Waco: Baylor University Press 2015), pp. 295-307, no. 83.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)