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Papyrus 230
- Record Id:
- 040-002104602
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000173.0x000392
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147467448.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 230
- Title:
- Psalms and Isocrates, Ad Demonicum (P.Lond.Lit. 207, P.Lond.Lit. 255, TM 62310, LDAB 6473, MP3 1245, 2751.434)
- Scope & Content:
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Portion of a papyrus roll with two texts, presumably teachers’ models (Cribiore 1996; Barker 2007).
Recto (P.Lond.Lit. 207): Psalms 11(12):7-14(15):4, with titles and syllabification through supralinear dots as a reading aid (against Jourdan-Hemmerdinger (1979), who suggests that the dots are musical notes). Assigned to the third century.
Verso (P.Lond.Lit. 255): Isocrates, Ad Demonicum 26-28; with medial dots to separate the syllables as reading aid. Assigned to the fourth century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002104602 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 230 : Psalms and Isocrates, Ad Demonicum (P.Lond.Lit. 207, P.Lond.Lit. 255, TM 62310, LDAB 6473, MP3 1245, 2751.434) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0139]/040-002104602
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Portion of a papyrus roll, pale-brown, broken off on the sides, with holes and surface damage in places; written on both sides. The front bears two columns of 37 lines each, written along the fibres; the width of the column is 130 mm; the intercolumn varies between 35 and 10 mm. A sheet-join runs from top to bottom along the left edge. The back contains portions of two columns of 25 and 6 lines respectively; the second column is followed by large blank space; the intercolumn measures 30-35 mm. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147467448.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0250
- End Date:
- 0350
- Date Range:
- mid 3rd century- mid 4th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 257 x 245 mm; housed in a glass frame measuring 305 x 290 mm.
Script: Recto: Large and well-formed upright hand with some cursive traits, influenced by the contemporary chancery style; elaborate, somewhat irregular in size; with enlarged letters at the beginning; apostrophe occurs between double letters and words; corrections by another hand; supralinear dots added by the hand of the verso (Carlig 2019); nomina sacra contracted. Verso: Large, upright hand, with some influence of the chancery style, exhibiting some narrow letters; roundels and hooks in some letters.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Arsinoite nome (?), Egypt.
Provenance: Arsinoite nome, Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 229-255 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 14 January 1893.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond. II 230 ro. descr.
P.Lond. II 230 vo. descr.
P.Lond.Lit. 207
P.Lond.Lit. 255 - 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. 413.
Recto
Anonymous, ‘An Early Papyrus fragment of the Greek Psalter’, Athenaeum (London) (8 Sept. 1894), pp. 319-321.
C. Haeberlin, ‘Griechische Papyri’, Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen 14 (1897), 159.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), p. xxii, no. 230 ro. descr.
F.G. Kenyon, Facsimiles of Biblical Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1900), pl. 1.
H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), p. 173, no. 207.
J. van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires juifs et chrétiens (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne 1976), no. 109.
D. Jourdan-Hemmerdinger, ‘Nouveaux fragments musicaux sur papyrus (une notation antique par points)’, in M. Velimirovic (ed.), Studies in Eastern Chant, IV (Crestwood, New York: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press 1979), pp. 81-111.
R. Cribiore, Writing, Teachers, and Students in Graeco-Roman Egypt (Atlanta: Georgia Scholars Press 1996), pp. 123-124, 245, no. 297, and passim.
A. Rahlfs, D. Fraenkel, Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht 2004), pp. 215-216, no. 2019.
D. Barker, ‘The Nomina Sacra in P.Lond.Lit.207’, in J. Frösén, T. Purola, E. Salmenkivi (eds.), Proceedings of the 24th International Congress of Papyrology, Helsinki, 1-7 August, 2004 (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica 2007), pp. 93-100.
D. Barker, ‘P.Lond.Lit.207 and the Origin of the Nomina Sacra: A Tentative Proposal’, Studia Humaniora Tartuensia 8 (2007), pp. 1-14.
D. G. Martinez, ‘The Papyri and Early Christianity’, in R. S. Bagnall (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology (New York: Oxford University Press 2009), pp. 590-622 (pp. 593-594).
J. R. Strawbridge, ‘How Present is Romans in Early Christian School Exercises: Is P.Lond.Lit 207 Mislabelled?’, in M. Bockmuehl, D. Lincicum, The Present Moment (Oxford: Oxford University Research Archives 2011), pp. 32-47.
Z. J. Cole, Numerals in Early Greek New Testament Manuscripts. Text-Critical, Scribal, and Theological Studies (Leiden: Brill 2017), pp. 164-165, no. 5.
N. Carlig, ‘Les rouleaux littéraires grecs composites profanes et chrétiens (début du IIIe – troisième quart du VIe siècle)’, Proceedings of the 28th International Congress of Papyrology, 2016 August 1-6 Barcelona (Barcelona: Universitat Pompeu Fabra 2019), pp. 366-373 (pp. 368-369).
Verso
Greek Papyri in the British Museum II (London: British Museum 1898), p. xxii, no. 230 vo. descr.
H. Oldfather, The Greek Literary Texts from Greco-Roman Egypt (Madison: University of Wisconsin 1923), p. 50, no. 1149.
H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), pp. 213-214, no. 255.
D. Jourdan-Hemmerdinger, ‘Nouveaux fragments musicaux sur papyrus (une notation antique par points)’, in M. Velimirovic (ed.), Studies in Eastern Chant, IV (Crestwood, New York: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press 1979), pp. 81-111.
P. Pruneti, ‘L’Ad Demonicum nella scuola antica: esempi di utilizzazione’, in Munus amicitiae: scritti in memoria di Alessandro Ronconi. Vol. I. (Quaderni di filologia latina; 4) (Firenze: Le Monnier 1986), pp. 211–219.
R. Cribiore, Writing, Teachers, and Students in Graeco-Roman Egypt (Atlanta: Georgia Scholars Press 1996), pp. 123-126, 245, no. 298, and passim.
B. G. Mandēlaras, Isocrates. Opera omnia 1 (Münich: Saur 2003), 19 descr.
Corpus dei papiri filosofici greci e latini: CPF. Testi e lessico nei papiri di cultura greca e latina. I.2[.2] (Firenze: L. S. Olschki 2008), pp. 934-939, no. 21.113T.
Corpus dei papiri filosofici greci e latini: CPF. Testi e lessico nei papiri di cultura greca e latina. 4.2, Tavole (Firenze: L. S. Olschki 2008), pl. 81.
Corpus dei papiri filosofici greci e latini: CPF. Testi e lessico nei papiri di cultura greca e latina. 2, Frammenti adespoti; Gnomologi e sentenze. 2, Sentenze di autori noti e «chreiai» (Firenze: L. S. Olschki 2015), pp. 106-107.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)