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Papyrus 131
- Record Id:
- 040-002104511
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x000327
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100058765650.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 131
- Title:
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Aristotle's Constitution of the Athenians (P.Lond.Lit. 108) and Other Texts: Scholia on Callimachus’ Aetia (P.Lond. Lit. 181), Farm Accounts (SB VIII 9699, P.Lond. I 131*), Commentary on Demosthenes’ In Midiam (P. Lond. Lit. 179)
- Scope & Content:
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Recto:
- Papyrus 131 (1): Scholia on Callimachus’ Aetia (P. Lond. Lit. 181, TM 59363, LDAB 462, MP3 197). Three columns at the beginning of the roll, the first and the third with only a few lines, of fragments of scholia on Callimachus's Aetia (Σ Lond. = frr. 1d, 2a, and 2e Harder), copied in the 1st century. Written upside down in relation to the following farm accounts.
- Papyrus 131 (1-5): Farm Accounts (SB VIII 9699 = P.Lond. I 131 r., TM 20003; P.Lond. I 131*, TM 20004). Farm accounts arranged in columns of various lengths (SB VIII 9699, with 28 columns + 3 not edited because of damage, and P.Lond. I 131* with 4 columns), a few of which are fragmentary. The accounts, arranged according to months and days, concern an estate near Hermopolis and were written by Didymus son of Aspasius, an employee of Epimachus son of Polydeuces. Dated to 78-79.
Verso:
- Papyrus 131 (1-5): The Aristotelian Constitution of the Athenians (P.Lond.Lit. 108, TM 59294, LDAB 391, MP3 163): 37 columns of varying widths and lengths, but usually consisting of 44-50 lines. The first roll, divided into two pieces, contains eleven broad columns; the second roll contains thirteen narrower columns; the third has six broad columns; the fourth is damaged and has fragments of the remaining columns. Written c. 100 AD, this is the only extant copy of the nearly complete text.
- Papyrus 131 (2): Commentary on Demosthenes’ In Midiam (P. Lond. Lit. 179, TM 59510, LDAB 611, MP3 307). One column and a half, written upside down in relation to the Constitution; containing a commentary on Demosthenes' In Midiam (fr. 47 Hausmann), copied in the first century and crossed out by scribe 1 of the Constitution, who then continued his text.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104511 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 131 : Aristotle's Constitution of the Athenians (P.Lond.Lit. 108) and Other Texts: Scholia on Callimachus’ Aetia (P.Lond. Lit. 181),… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0049]/040-002104511
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Four papyrus rolls, one of which was divided into two pieces, now separately framed; written on both sides, with two texts being upside down in relation to the other texts written on the same side.
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100058765650.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0078
- End Date:
- 0105
- Date Range:
- 78-c 100
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Four papyrus rolls, measuring 280 x 2200 mm (roll 1), 280 x 1665 mm (roll 2), 280 x 915 mm (roll 3), 250 x 915 mm (roll 4). Mounted in five glass frames: part 1 of roll 1 (Constitution, columns 1-7) mounted in a glass frame measuring 445 x 1495 mm; part 2 of roll 1 (Constitution, columns 8-10, Commentary on Demosthenes, Constitution, col. 11) in a glass frame measuring 360 x 1005 mm; part 3 (roll 2) in a glass frame measurig 455 x 1825 mm; part 4 (roll 3) in a glass frame measuring 445 x 1075 mm; part 5 (roll 4) in a glass frame measuring 405 x 950 mm.
Script: Several hands. The farm accounts are written in a good-sized and clear semi-cursive hand. The Callimachus scholia (on the recto of roll 1) are written in a small cursive hand, as is the Commentary on Demosthenes on the verso of roll 1 (though these hands are not identical). Four hands are employed in the Constitution of the Athenians: the first (columns 1-12) and fourth (columns 25-30) are small cursive hands, though not identical. The second hand (columns 13-19 and half of column 20) is a plain medium-sized uncial, the third (the rest of column 20, columns 21-24, and 31-36) is at times an unformed uncial, at times a cursive. Corrections by the first hand within columns 1-12 and by the fourth hand for the entire text.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Hermopolis (?), Hermopolite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Hermopolis (?), Hermopolite nome, Egypt. The first three rolls were purchased with a lot comprising Papyri 130-137 from Doctor John R. Alexander of Cairo on 12 April 1890; the fourth roll was acquired later, on 12 July 1890.
- Former External References:
- P. Lond. Lit. 108
P. Lond. Lit. 179
P. Lond. Lit. 181
P.Lond. I 131*
SB VIII 9699 = P.Lond. I 131 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1888-1893 (London: British Museum 1894), p. 393.
F. G. Kenyon, Aristotle on the Constitution of Athens, 1st edition (London: the Trustees of the British Museum 1891) [Editio princeps].
F. G. Kenyon, Aristotle on the Athenian Constitution. Translated with introduction and notes (London: the Trustees of the British Museum 1891).
F. G. Kenyon, Aristotle on the Constitution of Athens, 2nd edn, ed. (London: the Trustees of the British Museum 1891).
H. van Herwerden and J. van Leeuwen, De Republica Atheniensium Aristotelis qui Fertur Liber Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία (Lugduni Batavorum: A. W. Sijthoff 1891).
F. G. Kenyon, Aristotle on the Constitution of Athens, 3rd edn (London: the Trustees of the British Museum 1892).
Greek Papyri in the British Museum I (London: British Musuem 1893) pp. 166-188, no. 131, pp. 189-191, no. 131* [Publication of the farm accounts on the recto].
F. G. Kenyon, Aristotelis Res Publica Atheniensium, in Supplementum Aristotelicum vol. 3, part 2 (Berlin: G. Reimer 1903) [Contains the fullest apparatus criticus of all of Kenyon's editions].
F. G. Kenyon, Aristotelis Atheniensium Respublica (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1920)
E. A. Wallis Budge, By Nile and Tigris: A Narrative of Journeys in Egypt and Mesopotamia on Behalf of the British Museum Between the Years 1886 and 1913, 2 vols (London: J. Murray 1920) vol. 2, pp. 148-150, including plate.
H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: The Trustees 1927), p. 84, no. 108, p. 147, no. 179, pp. 148-150, no. 181.
A. C. Johnson, An Economic Survey of Ancient Rome II. Roman Egypt to the Reign of Diocletian (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press 1936), pp. 181-207, no. 105.
R. Pfeiffer, Callimachus, 2 vols (Oxford: Oxford Univeristy Press 1949), vol. 1, pp. 3-8.
A. Świderek, La propriété foncière privée dans l'Égypte de Vespasien et sa technique agricole d'après P. Lond. 131 recto (Wroclaw : Zaklad narodowy im. Ossolinskich, Wydawn. Polskiej Akademii Nauk 1960).
Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1967) pp. 33-58, no. 9699. [Edition of the farm accounts on the recto.]
B. Hausmann, Demosthenis fragmenta in papyris et membranis servata (Papyrologica Florentina 4 & 8) (Firenze: Gonnelli 1978-1981) vol. 2, pp. 116-118, no. 47.
P. J. Rhodes, A Commentary on the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia (Oxford: Clarendon 1981) pp. 3-4.
M. Chambers, Aristotelis Athenaion Politeia (Leipzig: Teubner 1986).
M. Manfredi, 'L'Athenaion Politeia di Aristotele e i papiri', in Proceedings of the XIXth International Congress of Papyrology, Cairo 2-9 September 1989, 2 vols, ed. A. H. S. El-Mosalamy (Cairo: Ain Shams University, Center of Papyrological Studies 1992) vol. 1, pp. 447–460.
M. Chambers, Aristotelis Athenaion Politeia, 2nd edn (Leipzig: Teubner 1994).
G. Maddoli, L'Athenaion politeia di Aristotele 1891-1991. Per un bilancio di cento anni di studi (Incontri perugini di storia della storiografia e sul mondo antico VI. Acquasparta 27-29 maggio 1991) (Napoli: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane 1994).
G. Bastianini, 'Un luogo di ritrovamento fantasma', in Atti Del II Convegno Nazionale Di Egittologia e Papirologia: Siracusa, 1-3 Dicembre 1995, ed. C. Basile and A. Di Natale (Quaderni dell’Istituto Internazionale Del Papiro 7), (Siracusa: Istituto internazionale del papiro 1996), pp. 69–84.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XI (Leiden: E.J. Brill 2002), p. 203.
W. A. Johnson, Bookrolls and Scribes in Oxyrhynchus (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2004), pp. 157-158, pl. 14.
L. Del Corso, 'L'Athenaion Politeia (P. Lond. Lit. 108) e la sua 'biblioteca': libri e mani nella chora egizia', in Oltre la scrittura: variazioni sul tema per Guglielmo Cavallo, ed. D. Bianconi and L. Del Corso (Dossiers byzantins 8) (Paris: Centre d'études byzantines, néo-helléniques et sud-est européennes 2008) pp. 13–52.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten XII (Leiden: E.J. Brill 2009), p. 100.
A. Harder, Callimachus: Aetia, 2 vols (Oxford: Oxford Univeristy Press 2012), vol. 1, pp. 123-124, 127, 129, vol. 2, pp. 92, 114-115.
- Exhibitions:
- Greek Manuscripts, (online), 18 September 2016-
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)