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Papyrus 134
- Record Id:
- 040-002104515
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x00032a
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147465216.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 134
- Title:
- Hyperides, Against Philippides (P.Lond.Lit. 134, TM 61289, LDAB 2431, MP3 1234)
- Scope & Content:
- Hyperides’s Against Philippides, from the same papyrus roll as Papyrus 133 (Demosthenes, Epistula III), but in a different hand. The beginning is fragmentary.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104515 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 134 : Hyperides, Against Philippides (P.Lond.Lit. 134, TM 61289, LDAB 2431, MP3 1234) - Contains:
- Papyrus 134(1) : Part 1 of Hyperides, Against Philippides
Papyrus 134(2) : Part 2 of Hyperides, Against Philippides
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- 032-002104451[0053]/040-002104515
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Fragments of varying size from the same papyrus roll as Papyrus 133, with blank space of about 300 mm to separate the texts and in a different hand; Papyrus 133 is the continuation; broken off at the beginning, and written on one side along the fibres, with the back blank. Each sheet forming the roll is about 180 mm wide. There remain 9 complete columns, and portions from other columns, very fragmentary; each column measures150 x 43 mm and has 26 to 28 lines, with an average of 17 letters per line; lines begin progressively further to the left (Mass’s Law); the intercolumn measures about 10 mm, the upper margin 35 mm, and the lower c.50 mm. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in two glass frames named Papyrus 134(1), and Papyrus 134(2).
Papyrus 134(1): fragments of varying size;
Papyrus 134(2): few holes and breaks in places, overall well preserved; 9 columns, complete; upper, lower and right margin extant.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147465216.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- -0150
- End Date:
- -0100
- Date Range:
- mid-2nd century BC
- Era:
- BCE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Largest fragment: 240 x 493 mm; housed in two glass frames named Papyrus 134(1), and Papyrus 134(2), measuring 280 x 380 mm and 280 x 565 mm respectively.
Script: Elaborate and regular hand of small size, thin and upright, mostly bilinear, with some ligatures and serifs; blank space marks punctuation; paragraphi occur, in two hands (presumably the original is the same hand as the one responsible for paragraphi in Papyrus 133: Johnson 2004).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Hermopolite nome (?), Egypt.
Provenance: Hermopolite nome (?), Egypt. Purchased with a lot comprising Papyri 130-137 from John R. Alexander according to the Trustees’ minutes of 12 April 1890.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond.Lit. 134
- 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. 394.
F. G. Kenyon, Classical texts from papyri in the British Museum (London: Trustees of the British Museum 1891) pp. 42-55, with pl. II.
H. van Herwerden, ‘De novo fragmento Hyperideo(?)’, Mnemosyne 19 (1891), pp. 397-404.
H. Weil, ‘Du discours d'Hypéride contre Philippidès’, Revue des études grecques 5 (1892), pp. 1-6
Greek Papyri in the British Museum I (London: British Museum 1893), p. xix, no. 134.
F. G. Kenyon, Hyperidis orationes et fragmenta (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1906), pp. iv, viii.
C. Jensen, Hyperidis orationes sex (Leipzig: Teubner 1917), pp. xi-xiv, 56-68.
W. Schubart, Griechische Palaeographie (München: C.H. Beck 1925), p. 110, pl. 72.
H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), p. 100, no. 134.
G. Cavallo, ‘La scrittura greca libraria tra I secoli I a.C.-I d.C.: materiali, tipologie, momenti’, in D. Harlfinger, G. Prato et al. (eds.), Paleografia e codicologia greca: atti del II colloquio internazionale(Berlino-Wolfenbüttel, 17-21 ottobre 1983) (Alessandria: Edizioni dell'orso 1991), pp. 11-29 (pp. 20-21, 29, tav. 9).
R. Barbis Lupi, ‘La paragraphos: analisi di un segno di lettura’, in A. Bülow-Jakobsen (ed.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Papyrology. Copenhagen, 23-29 August 1992 (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press 1994), pp. 414-417 (p. 414).
A. Martin, ‘Heurs et malheurs d'un manuscrit. Deux notes à propos du papyrus d'Hérondas’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 139 (2002), pp. 22-26.
W. A. Johnson, Bookrolls and Scribes in Oxyrhynchus (Toronto-London: University of Toronto Press 2004), pp. 50, 53, 55, 81, 133, 139, 319-320, and passim, with pl. 15.
G. Cavallo, La scrittura greca e latina dei papiri: una introduzione (Pisa: Serra 2008), p. 48.
G. Cavallo, H. Maehler, Hellenistic Bookhands (Berlin-New York: W. de Gruyter& Co. 2008), p. 80, no. 46.
L. del Corso, ‘L’Athenaion Politeia (P.Lond. Lit. 108) e la sua ‘biblioteca’: libri e mani nella chora egizia’, D. Bianconi, L. del Corso (eds.), Oltre la scrittura. Variazioni sul tema per Guglielmo Cavallo (Paris: Centre d'études byzantines, néo-helléniques et sud-est européennes, École des hautes études en sciences sociales 2008), pp. 13-52 (pp. 38-40).
G. Cavallo, ‘Greek and Latin Writing in the Papyri’, in R. S. Bagnall (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2009), pp. 101-148 (pp. 114, 118 fig. 5.13).
S. Strassi, ‘Osservazioni paleografiche a proposito del papiro di Artemidoro (P. Artemid. MP³ 168.02)’, in L. Canfora (ed.), Il papiro di Artemidoro, Atti della Accademia Roveretana degli Agiati 259 ser. VIII vol. IX, A, fasc. II. 2 (2009), pp. 15-33 (p. 20, and passim).
L. Horváth, Der "Neue Hypereides": Textedition, Studien und Erläuterungen (Berlin: De Gruyter 2014), passim.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)