Hard-coded id of currently selected item: . JSON version of its record is available from Blacklight on e.g. ??

Metadata associated with selected item should appear here...

Papyrus 137

Record Id:

040-002104518

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002104451

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x00032d

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Papyrus 137

Title:

Anonymus Londinensis (P.Lond.Lit. 165, TM 62776, LDAB 3964, MP³ 2339), Medical Recipe, and Rescript of Mark Antony (SB I 4224, TM 29409)

Scope & Content:

Recto (P.Lond.Lit. 165, TM 62776, LDAB 3964, MP³ 2339): A treatise on medicine written by an anonymous author generally referred to as Anonymus Londinensis and assigned to the second half of the first century. The treatise has been divided into three main sections by scholars:

I. Papyrus 137(1)1-3, column 1- Papyrus 137(2)4-7, column 4 ( = 1 of the frame), line 17: Introduction with definitions of medical concepts of desease.

II. Papyrus 137(2)4-7, column 4 (= 1 of the frame), line 18 - Papyrus 137(7)21-24, column 21 (= column 1 of the frame), line 8: ‘Doxography of Menon’, with discussion of the causes of disease such as food and constitutive elements of the body.

Twenty ancient authors are quoted: Euryphon of Cnidus (IV 31-40); Herodicus of Cnidus (IV 40-V 34); Hippocrates (V 35-VII 40), Alcamenes of Abydos (VII 40-VIII 10), Timotheus of Metapontum (VIII 11-34); Abas (VIII 35-IX 4); Heracleodorus (?) (IX 5-19); Herodicus (IX 20-34); Niny- the Egyptian (IX 37-X); Hippo of Croton (XI 22-41); Thrasymachus of Sardis (XI 42-XII 8); Dexippus of Cos (XII 8-36); Phasitas of Tenedos (XII 36-XIII 9); Aegimius of Elis (XIII 21-XIV 3); Plato (XIV 12-XVIII 8); Philolaus of Croton (XVIII 8-XIX 1); Polybus of Cos (XIX 2-18); Menecrates (XIX 18-XX 1); Petron of Aegina (XX 1-24); Philistion of Locri (XX 25-XXI 8).

III. Papyrus 137 (7)21-24, column 21 (= column 1 of the frame), line 9 – end: Physiology, mentioning Herophilus, Erasistratus, Aristotle, Asclepiades of Bithynia, Alexander Philalethes.

Verso:

Papyrus 137(2)4-7 (SB I 4224, TM 29409): A late first- or early second-century copy of a rescript of Mark Antony of 33-32 BCE, in which the triumvir confirmed the privileges he had granted to the ‘corporation of the victors in the sacred games’ when visiting Ephesus after the request from his friend Marcus Antonius Artemidorus and Charopinus, eponymous priest of the corporation. Among these privileges is the exemption from military and civil burdens. Antony gives permission to record the grant on a bronze tablet.

Papyrus 137(7)21-24:

Column 1: Continuation of recto: completing column 25, lines 31-47.

Column 2: Continuation of recto: perhaps related to column 24, lines 19-21.

Column 3: Short medical recipe listing four ingredients, in a somewhat different hand from that of the medical treatise.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002104451
040-002104518

Is part of:

Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri

Papyrus 137 : Anonymus Londinensis (P.Lond.Lit. 165, TM 62776, LDAB 3964, MP3 2339), Medical Recipe, and Rescript of Mark Antony (SB I 4224, TM 29409)

Hierarchy:

032-002104451[0056]/040-002104518

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

A papyrus roll of medium quality, originally 3365 mm long, made out of 20 sheets. Each sheet is 155 mm wide on average. Housed in 11 glass cases, named Papyrus 137(1)1-3, Papyrus 137(2)4-7, Papyrus 137(3)8-11, Papyrus 137(4)12-15, Papyrus 137(5)16-18, Papyrus 137(6)19-20, Papyrus 137(7)21-24, Papyrus 137(8)25-28, Papyrus 137(9)29-31, Papyrus 137(10)32-35, Papyrus 137(11)36-39.

The front preserves 39 columns, each of which contains between 32 and 59 lines. At least 2 columns are missing at the beginning. The surviving upper margin measures between 10 and 20 mm, the lower between 10 and 15 mm.

Three columns are written on the back of Papyrus 137(2)4-7, the first two of which were written by the same hand as that of the front, and one column in a different hand is found on the back of Papyrus 137(7)21-24.

The sheets are mounted on cardboard with the exception of Papyrus 137(2)4-7, and Papyrus 137(7)21-24, which bear writing on the back. Unplaced fragments are housed in Papyrus 137(6)19-20, Papyrus 137(9)29-31, and Papyrus 137(10)32-35.

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

0050

End Date:

0099

Date Range:

2nd half 1st century

Era:

Access:

Please request the physical items you need using the online collection item request form.

Digitised items can be viewed online by clicking the thumbnail image or digitised content link.

Readers who have registered or renewed their pass since 21 March 2024 can request physical items prior to visiting the Library by completing
this request form.
Please enter the Reference (shelfmark) above on the request form.

If your Reader Pass was issued before this date, you will need to visit the Library in London or Yorkshire to renew it before you can request items online. All manuscripts and archives must be consulted at the Library in London.

This catalogue record may describe a collection of items which cannot all be requested together. Please use the hierarchy viewer to navigate to individual items. Some items may be in use or restricted for other reasons. If you would like to check the availability, contact our Reference Services team, quoting the Reference (shelfmark) above.

User Conditions:

Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Papyrus.

Dimensions: Size of the roll: 235 x 3365 mm; housed in 11 glass cases, all measuring 280 x 460 mm.

Script: Three hands: Recto: Practised yet irregular angular hand, slanting to the right and with cursive traits. Abbreviations are used; additions occur; punctuation is by spacing, paragraphus or diple obelismene; remnants of a coronis is visible in Papyrus 137(4)12-15, to the left of the second column ( = 14 of the roll) opposite lines 6-7. Verso: Papyrus 137(7)21-24verso, columns 1-2: same hand as recto; column 3: Similar hand with cursive traits; Papyrus 137(2)4-7verso: Large semi-cursive hand.

Custodial History:

Origin: Egypt.

Found: Moirai, Hermopolite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 130-137 from Dr. John R. Alexander according to the Trustees’ minute of 12 April 1890. Further fragments of papyri in this lot were bought on 12 July 1890.

Former External References:

P.Lond.Lit. 165
SB I 4224

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1888-1893 (London: British Museum 1894), pp. 395-396.

Recto: [Selected Bibliography]

F. G. Kenyon, ‘A Medical Papyrus in the British Museum’, Classical Review 6 (1892), pp. 237-240.

H. Diels, Supplementum Aristotelicum vol. 3. pt. 1. Anonymi Londinensis ex Aristotelis Iatricis Menoniis et aliis medicis eclogae (Berlin: Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1893).

H. Diels, ‘Über die Excerpte von Menons Iatrika in dem Londoner Papyrus 137’, Hermes 28 (1893), pp. 407-434.

E. Thost, ‘Ad papyrus titulosque graecos symbolae, I Iatrica Menonia’, in Griechische Studien. Hermann Lipsius zum 60. Geburtstag dargebracht (Leipzig: Teubner 1984), pp. 161-168.

H. Beckh, F. Spaet, Anonymus Londinensis. Auszüge eines Unbekannten aus Aristoteles-Menons Handbuch der Medizin und aus Werken anderer älterer Ärzte (Berlin: G. Reimer 1896).

F. Blass, ‘Die pseudippokratische Schrift Περὶ φυσῶν und der Anonymus Londinesis’, Hermes 36 (1901), pp. 405-410.

F. G. Kenyon, H. Diels, ‘Some Additional Fragments of the London Medical Papyrus’, Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Phil.-Hist. Klasse 1 (1901), pp. 1319-1323.

M. Wellmann, ‘Der Verfasser des Anonymus Londinensis’, Hermes 57 (1922), pp. 396-430.

H. Oldfather, The Greek Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt (Madison: University of Wisconsin 1923), p. 44, no. 819.

H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), p. 133, no. 165.

E. T. Withington, 'Medicine: The ἸΑΤΡΙΚΑ of Menon. Anonymi Londinensis Iatrica', in J. U. Powell, E. A. Barber (eds.), New Chapters in the History of Greek Literature. Second Series (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1929), pp. 183-188.

W. H. S. Jones, The medical writings of Anonymus Londinensis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1947).

H. von Staden, ‘Experiment and Experience in Hellenistic Medicine’, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 22 (1975), pp. 179-180, 186, 194.

M.-H. Marganne, Inventaire analytique des papyrus grecs de médecine (Genève: Librairie Droz 1981), pp. 182-184, no. 102.

B. Janine, 'A propos de quelques résurgences des Épidémies dans les Problemata du Corpus aristotelicien', in G. Baader, R. Winau (eds.), Die Hippokratischen Epidemien. Theorie – Praxis – Tradition. Verhandlungen des V e Colloque International Hippocratique 10. – 15. 9. 1984 (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner 1989), pp. 261-269.

Corpus dei papiri filosofici greci e latini: CPF. Parte I Autori Noti. 1* (Florence: L. S. Olschki, 1989), pp. 307-311, pp. 345-351.

D. Manetti ‘Doxographical Deformation of Medical Tradition in the Report of the Anonymus Londinensis on Philolaus’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 83 (1990), pp. 219-233.

Corpus dei papiri filosofici greci e latini: CPF. Testi e lessico nei papiri di cultura greca e latina 1, Autori noti. 2 (Firenze: L. S. Olschki 1992), pp. 455-461.

D. Gourevitch, 'Le vie della conoscenza: la medicina nel mondo romano', in M. Dražen Grmek (ed.), Storia del pensiero medico occidentale 1. Antichità e medioevo (Rome/Bari: Laterza & Figli Spa 1993), pp. 121-167.

D. Manetti, ‘Autografi e incompiuti: il caso dell’Anonimo Londinese P.Lit.Lond. 165’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 100 (1994), pp. 47-58.

G. Bastianini, 'Tipologie dei rotoli e problemi di ricostruzione', Atti del V seminario internazionale di papirologia. Lecce 27 – 29 Giugno 1994). Papyrologica Lupiensia 4 (Galatina: Congedo 1995), pp. 21-

A. Debru, ‘Les demonstrations médicales à Rome au temps de Galien’, in Ph. J. van der Eijk, H. F. J. Horstmanshoff, P. H. Schrijvers (eds.), Ancient Medicine in its Socio-Cultural Context. Papers read at the congress held at Leiden University, 13-15 April 1992 I (Amsterdam-Atlanta: Rodopi 1995), pp. 69-81.

G. Bastianini, ‘Un luogo di ritrovamento fantasma?’, in C. Basile, A. Di Natale, Atti del II Convegno Nazionale di Egittologia e Papirologia. Siracusa, 1-3 dicembre 1995 (Siracusa: Istituto internazionale del papiro 1996), pp. 69-84.

D. Manetti, ‘Saggio di edizione di P.Lit.Lond. 165: la polemica contro Erasistrato sulla presenza di aria nelle arterie’, in A. Garzya (ed.), Histoire et ecdotique des textes médicaux grecs, Actes du IIe Colloque Internationale Paris 24–26 mai 1994 (Napoli: d’Auria 1996), pp. 307-317.

D. Manetti, ‘Proposte di collocazione di due frammenti in PBrLibr inv. 137 (Anonimo Londinese) e nuove letture’, in I. Andorlini (ed.), Specimina per il Corpus dei papiri greci di medicina. Atti del' incontro di studio Firenze, 28-29 marzo 1996 (Firenze: Istituto papirologico "G. Vitelli" 1997), pp. 141-153.

D. Manetti, ' Ὡς δ᾽αὐτὸς Ἱπποκράτης λέγει. Teoria causale e ippocratismo nell’Anonimo Londinese (VI 43ss.)', in R. Wittern, P. Pellegrin (eds.), Medizin der Antike. Hippokratische Medizin und antike Philosophie. Verhandlungen des VIII. International Hippokrates-Kolloquiums in Kloster Banz/Staffelstein vom 23. bis 28. September 1993. Vol. I (Hildesheim-Zürich-New York: Olms Weidmann 1996), pp. 295-310.

V. Nutton, 'Anonymus Londinensis', in H. Cancik, H. Schneider (eds.), Der Neue Pauly vol. I (Stuttgart-Weimar: J. B. Metzler 1996), pp. 718-719.

A. Debru, ‘Les demonstrations médicales à Rome au temps de Galien’, in Ph. J. van der Eijk, Ancient Histories of Medicine. Essays in Medical Doxography and Historiography in Classical Antiquity (Leiden-Boston: Brill 1999), pp. 453-471.

Corpus dei papiri filosofici greci e latini: CPF. Testi e lessico nei papiri di cultura greca e latina. 1, Autori noti. 3[.2] (Firenze: L. S. Olschki 1999), pp. 528-578.

D. Manetti, ‘‘Aristotle’ and the role of doxography in the Anonymus Londiniensis (PBrLibr inv. 137)’, in P. van der Eijk (ed.), Ancient Histories of Medicine, Essays in Medical Doxography and Historiography in Classical Antiquity (Leiden-Boston: Brill 1999), pp. 95-141.

M. Frede, 'An anti-Aristotelian Point of Method in Three Rationalist Doctors', in B. Morison, K. Ierodiakonou (eds.), Episteme, etc.: Essays in Honour of Jonathan Barnes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 115-137.

A. Thivel, 'La doctrine d’ Hippocrate dans l’ Anonyme de Londres', In M.l Woronoff, S. Follet, J. Jouanna (eds.), Dieux, héros et médecins grecs, Hommage à Fernand Robert (Besançon: Institut des Sciences et Techniques de l’Antiquité 2001), pp. 197-209.

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 (p. 23 and passim).

D. Manetti, 'Il ruolo di Asclepiade di Bitinia nell’Anonimo Londinese', in A. Garzya, J.s Jouanna (eds.), Transmission et ecdotique des textes médicaux grecs. Actes du IVeColloque International (Paris, 17–19 mai 2001) (Naples: M. D’Auria, 2003), pp. 335-347.

Ph. Van der Eijk, 'The Heart, the Brain, the Blood and the Pneuma: Hippocrates, Diocles and Aristotle on the Location of Cognitive Processes', in Ph. Van der Eijk (ed.), Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2005), pp. 119-36.

M. Asper, Griechische Wissenschaftstexte, Formen, Funktionen, Differenzierungsgeschichten (Philosophie der Antike 25) (Stuttgart: F. Steiner Verlag 2007), pp. 293-304.

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 (p. 42).

I. Andorlini, ‘La ricetta medica dell’Anonimo londinese (P.Brit.Libr. inv. 137^v= Suppl. Arist. III 1, P. 76 Diels’, Galenos. Rivista di filologia dei testi medici antichi 4 (2010), pp. 39-45.

D. Manetti, Anonymus Londiniensis. De Medicina (Berlin: De Gruyter 2011).

D. Manetti, ‘Levels of authorial presence in Anonymus Londiniensis (P.Brit. Libr. inv. 137)’, Trends in Classics 5 (2013), pp. 159-178.

A. Ricciardetto, L'Anonyme de Londres (P.Lit.Lond. 165, Brit.Libr. inv. 137). Edition et traduction d'un papyrus médical grec du Ier siècle (= Papyrologica Leodiensia 4) (Liège: Presses universitaires de Liège 2014).

Ph. Van der Eijk, 'Hippocrate aristotélicien', in J. Jouanna, M. Zink (eds.), Hippocrate et les hippocratismes: médecine, religion, société. Actes du XIVe Colloque International Hippocratique à la Maison de la Recherche, à l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres et à la Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire de Santé, les 8, 9 et 10 novembre 2012 (Paris: Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres 2014), pp. 347-369.

T. Dorandi, 'Elementi ‘diairetici’ nella sezione iniziale dell’Anonymus Londiniensis (P.Br.Libr. inv. 137 I-IV 17)', in A. Casanova, G. Messeri, R. Pintaudi (eds.), E sì d’amici pieno. Omaggio di studiosi italiani a Guido Bastianini per il suo settantesimo compleanno. Papyrologica Florentina 45. Vol. 1 (Firenze: Edizioni Gonnelli 2016), pp. 199-205.

D. Manetti, 'La sezione sulle definizioni dell’Anonimo Londinese (P.Br.Libr. inv. 137)', in A. Casanova, G. Messeri, R. Pintaudi (eds.), E sì d’amici pieno. Omaggio di studiosi italiani a Guido Bastianini per il suo settantesimo compleanno. Papyrologica Florentina 45 (Firenze: Edizioni Gonnelli 2016), 525-31.

A. Ricciardetto, L’Anonyme de Londres. P.Litl.lond. 165, Brit.Libr. inv. 137. Un papyrus médical grec du Ier siècle après J.-C. : P.Lit.Lond. 165, Brit.Libr. inv. 137 (Paris: Les Belles Lettres 2016).

J. Crespo Saumell, ‘New Lights on the Anonymus Londiniensis Papyrus’, Journal of Ancient Philosophy 11 (2017), pp. 120-150.

J. Crespo Saumell, ‘A Critical Assessment of the Anonymus Londiniensis Papyrus’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 55 (2018), pp. 129-156.

Verso:

F. G. Kenyon, ‘A Rescript of Marcus Antonius’, Classical Review 7 (1893), pp. 476-478.

Greek Papyri in the British Museum I (London: British Museum 1893), p. XIX no. 137 vo. descr.

C. G. Brandis, ‘Ein Schreiben des Triumvirn Marcus Antonius an den Landtag Asiens’, Hermes 32 (1897), pp. 509-522.

Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten. Band I (Strassburg: K. J. Trübner 1915), pp. 299-300, no. 4224.

V. Ehrenberg, A. H. M. Jones, Documents Illustrating the Reigns of Augustus and Tiberius (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1955²), p. 300.

A. C. Johnson, P. R. Coleman-Norton, F. C. Bourne, C. Pharr, Ancient Roman statutes: a translation, with introduction, commentary, glossary, and index (Austin: University of Texas Press 1961), p. 109, no. 125.

M. Vandoni, Feste pubbliche e private nei documenti greci (Milano-Varese: Istituto editoriale cisalpino 1964), pp. 114–115.

R. K. Sherk, Roman Documents from the Greek East (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press 1969), no. 57.

P. Cugusi, Epistolographi Latini Minores, II 1 (Torino: Paravia 1979), pp. 261–263, no. 47.

J. Ebert, ‘Zum Brief des Marcus Antonius an das κοινὸν Ἀcίαc’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 33 (1987), pp. 37–42.

D. Manetti, ‘Autografi e incompiuti: il caso dell’Anonimo Londinese P.Lit.Lond. 165’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 100 (1994), pp. 47-58 (p. 57).

Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 308.

Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten IX (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1995), p. 238.

I. Andorlini, ‘La ricotta medica dell’Anonimo londinese (P.Brit.Libr. inv. 137^v= Suppl. Arist. III 1, P. 76 Diels’, Galenos. Rivista di filologia dei testi medici antichi 4 (2010), pp. 39-45.

A. Ricciardetto, ‘La lettre de Marc Antoine (SB I 4224) écrite au verso de l’Anonyme de Londres (P.Brit. Libr. inv. 137 = MP³ 2339)’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 58 (2012), pp. 43-60.

Exhibitions:

Greek Manuscripts, (online), 18 September 2016-

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Anonymus Londinensis, 1st century
Antonius, Marcus, triumvir

Places:

Moirai, Hermopolite nome, Egypt

Related Material:

The papyrus belongs to the Archive of the Library of Athenaion Politeia (TM Arch ID 562).