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Papyrus 115
- Record Id:
- 040-002104495
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x000317
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100058770198.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 115
- Title:
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Hyperides’ Pro Lycophrone and Pro Euxenippo (P.Lond.Lit. 132, TM 61281, LDAB 2423, MP3 1233)
- Scope & Content:
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48 columns from the same papyrus roll as Papyrus 108, of which this papyrus is the continuation; the layout and arrangement of the columns is very regular; kollêsis joins are visible throughout, and there are alignment dots; punctuation is marked by spacing and sometimes by using paragraphoi as well; occasional use of diaeresis and line-fillers may be noticed; with corrections by the original scribe and others added later in a different hand.
Papyrus 115 (1): End of Pro Lycophrone, in 16 columns, with column 1 only having the end of the lines; with coronis at the end and end-title in two lines.
Papyrus 115 (2) – Papyrus 115 (3): Full text of Pro Euxenippo. 32 columns in total, 17 of which in Papyrus 115 (2), 15 in Papyrus 115 (3); with coronis at the end and end-title in four lines. In Papyrus 115 (2), a different hand added the title on the left-hand side of column 1 and a correction of column 2, line 2 was added above column 2.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104495 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 115 : Hyperides’ Pro Lycophrone and Pro Euxenippo (P.Lond.Lit. 132, TM 61281, LDAB 2423, MP3 1233) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0033]/040-002104495
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fragments of various sizes from a papyrus roll, written on one side along the fibres and preserving 48 columns; the papyrus, housed in three glass frames and mounted on cardboard, is part of the same roll as Papyrus 108. When complete, the roll must have been over 7 metres long. Further fragments are to be found in the papyrus of Cambridge, St John’s College Aa 5.1 Ardenianus, and in P.Louvre inv. 7169.
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100058770198.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0075
- End Date:
- 0125
- Date Range:
- 75-125
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Papyrus 115 (1): 305 x 1095 mm; Papyrus 115 (2): 305 x 1250 mm; Papyrus 115 (3): 305 x 1095 mm; housed in three glass frames measuring 470 x 1260 mm, 470 x 1410 mm and 470 x 1260 mm respectively.
Script: Fine rounded book-hand, with marginal additions in a different hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Thebes, Egypt. Bought by Joseph Arden (b. 1799, d. 1879) in 1847, and purchased from him on 26 April 1879.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond.Lit. 132
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1876-1881 (London: British Museum 1882), pp. 280-281.
H. Sauppe, ‘Die neuen Bruchstücke des Hyperides’, Philologus 3 (1848), pp.610-658.
C. Babington, Ὑπεριδου Λογοι Β. The Orations of Hyperides for Lycophron and Euxenippus (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1853).
C. G. Cobet, ‘Hyperidis oratio pro Euxenippo recens reperta rec. C.G. Cobet’, Mnemosyne 2 (1853) pp. 310-329.
J. Hogg, ‘Note on a Papyrus Greek Manuscript supposed to contain parts of orations by Hyperides (recently brought from Egypt by Mr. Arden)’, Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom 4 (1853), pp. 211-215.
F. G. Schneidewin, Hyperidis orationes duae ex papyro Ardeniano editae: post Ch. Babington ememendavit et scholia adiecit (Gottingae: In Libraria Dieterichiana 1853).
F. G. Schneidewin, ‘Hyperidea’, Philologus 8 (1853), pp. 340-354.
J. B. Lightfoot, ‘Hyperides’, The Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology 1 (1854), pp. 109-124.
C. G. Linder, Hyperidis oratoris Attici pro Euxenippo in Polyeuctum (Upsaliae: Academiae typographus 1856).
C. J. Caesar, Hyperidis Oratio pro Euxenippo et Orationis pro Lycophrone fragmenta cum adnotatione critica in usum scholarum academicarum (Marburgi: sumptibus N.G. Elwerti 1857).
D. Comparetti, Il discorso d'Iperide in favore d'Euxenippo, scoperto in Egitto e pubblicato in Inghilterra nel 1853 (Pisa: Tipografia dei fratelli Nistri 1861).
F. Blass, Hyperidis Orationes quattuor cum ceterarum fragmentis (Leipzig: Teubner 1869, 1881).
F. Blass, Hyperidis orations sex cum ceterarum fragmentis (Leipzig: Teubner,1894).
F. G. Kenyon, Hyperidis orationes et fragmenta (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1906).
C. Jensen, Hyperidis Orationes sex cum ceterarum fragmentis post F. Blass papyris denuo collatis edidit Christianus Jensen (Lipsiae: B. G. Teubner 1917).
H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: The Trustees 1927), p. 99, no. 132 descr.
A. Körte, ‘Literarische Texte mit Ausschluß der christlichen’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 10 (1932), pp. 217-237 (p. 218, no. 746).
G. Colin, Hyperide. Discours (Paris: Les Belles Lettres 1946).
V. de Falco, Iperide: Le orazioni in difesa di Eussenippo e contro Atenogene (Napoli: Libreria scientifica editrice 1947 ), pp. 45-141, 203-219.
C. H. Roberts, Greek Literary Hands 350 B.C.-A.D. 400 (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1955), p. 13, no. 13b.
U. Ardini, U. Albini, 'Iperide, Pap. Arden, III, 3', Maia 16 (1964), pp. 395-396.
F. D’Oria, ‘Osservarzioni su una locuzione in Iperide’, Le Parole e le Idee 11 (1969), pp. 325-329.
E. G. Turner, Greek Manuscripts of the Ancient World (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1971), pp. 16, 125.
G. Bartolini, 'I papiri e le edizioni dell'orazione di Iperide contro Demostene', Atene e Roma 17 (1972), pp. 103-113.
S. Salomone, 'Osservazioni sull'orazione Iperidea per Licofrone', Maia 25 (1973), pp. 55-63.
T. S. Pattie, E. G. Turner, The Written Word on Papyrus : An Exhibition [Organised by the British Library] Held in the British Museum, 30 July-27 October 1974 (London: British Museum for the British Library Board 1974), pp. 27-28, no. 33.
G. Bartolini, 'Note a tre passi di Iperide', Maia 27 (1975), pp. 207-209.
G. Bartolini, Iperide. Rassegna di problemi e di studi (1912 - 1972) (Padua: Antenore 1977).
H.-J. Martin, J. Vezin, J. Monfrin, Mise en page et mise en texte du livre manuscrit (Paris: Ed. du Cercle de la librairie-Promodis 1990), p. 53.H. Wankel, ‘Zu Hypereides 1, 14, 24-29’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 98 (1993), pp. 25-26.
J. Lenaerts, ‘Papyrus littéraires et documents’, Chronique d'Égypte 72 (1997), pp. 171-174 (p. 173).
T. Morgan, ‘Some Lost Fragments of Hyperides’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 123 (1998), pp. 75-77.
R. Kassel, ‘Babingtons Hypereidesfragmente (Bb. I-VI)’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 125 (1999), pp. 75-76.W. A. Johnson, Bookrolls and scribes in Oxyrynchus (Toronto - London: University of Toronto Press 2004), passim, with plates 16-17.
J. Radicke, ‘Völlige Straffreiheit beim Mißbrauch der Anklage? Anmerkungen zur Eisangelie (Hyperid. Lycophr. §§ 8. 12 [Mus. Brit. Pap. 108. 115])’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 147 (2004), pp. 11-14.
G. Cavallo, Il calamo e il papiro: la scrittura greca dall'età ellenistica ai primi secoli di Bisanzio. Papyrologica Florentina 36 (Firenze: Gonnelli 2005), p. 119.
M. Caroli, Il titolo iniziale nel rotolo librario greco-egizio. Con un catalogo delle testimonianze iconografiche greche e di area vesuviana (Bari: Levante Editori 2007), pp. 259-268, P 27, with plates 30-31.
W. A. Johnson, ‘The Ancient Book’, in R. S. Bagnall (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology (New York: Oxford University Press 2009), pp. 256-281 (p. 258).
E. Puglia, 'Note bibliologiche e sticometriche III', Studi di Egittologia e di Papirologia 6 (2009), pp. 99-100.
A. Capone, ‘Babington, Comparetti e le scoperte dei papiri d’Iperide’, Quaderni di storia 72 (2010) pp. 89-129.
B. Nongbri, ‘The Crocodile Pit of Maabdeh’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 54 (2017), pp. 207-217 (pp. 209-211).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)