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Papyrus 729
- Record Id:
- 040-002105116
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0003bb
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147462940.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 729
- Title:
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Festal Letter for Easter (P.Grenf. II 112, P.Lond. III 729 descr., TM 65050, LDAB 6291)
- Scope & Content:
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A fragmentary letter from the patriarch of Alexandria to the Egyptian churches, quoting the commentary of St Cyril on John XIX 28 and setting regulations on Easter celebrations, with Easter day being fixed on 25 April for the current year.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105116 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 729 : Festal Letter for Easter (P.Grenf. II 112, P.Lond. III 729 descr., TM 65050, LDAB 6291) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0423]/040-002105116
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Rotulus (roll rotated 90 degrees) of papyrus broken off at the top and bottom, and damaged along the horizontal folds. Writing runs across the fibres on one side, with the back being blank. The text, incomplete, consists of one column, 300 mm wide, of 22 lines, the first and last of which are mutilated. Left and right margins survive, the right being irregular and occasionally minimal, the left measuring c. 25 mm. The papyrus is mounted on cardboard in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147462940.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0577
- End Date:
- 0672
- Date Range:
- 577 or 672
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 213 x 335 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 270 x 395 mm.
Script: Alexandrian majuscule bimodular. Punctutation and diaeresis marked; nomina sacra contracted; diple used to mark quotation.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Alexandria, Egypt.
Provenance: Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 688-731 from Bernard Pyne Grenfell (b. 1869, d. 1926) on 14 November 1896.
- Former External References:
- P.Grenf. II 112
P.Lond. III 729 descr. - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1894-1899 (London: British Museum 1901), p. 542.
B. P. Grenfell, A. S. Hunt, New Classical Fragments and Other Greek and Latin Papyri (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1897), pp. 163-167, no. 112.
C. Haeberlin, ‘Griechische Papyri’, Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen 14 (1897), p. 477, no. 180.
E. M. Thompson, G. F. Warner, F. G. Kenyon, J. P. Gilson, New Palaeographical Society, Indices to facsimiles of ancient manuscripts First series, vol. 1 (London: Photographed and printed by H. Hart at the Oxford University Press 1903), pl. 48.
Greek Papyri in the British Museum III (London: British Museum 1907), p. xxix, no. 729.
Berliner Klassikertexte VI. Altchristliche Texte (Berlin: Weidmannsche buchhandlung 1910), p. 92.
J. Irigoin, ‘L’onciale grecque de type copte’, Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinischen Gesellschaft 8 (1959), pp. 29-51 (pp. 31, 48).
G. Cavallo, ‘Γράμματα Άλεξανδρῖνα’, Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinischen Gesellschaft 24 (1975), pp. 23-54.
J. van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires juifs et chrétiens (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne 1976), p. 242, no. 675 descr.
S. Bernardinello, Cronologia della maiuscola greca di tipo alessandrino (contributo paleografico), Scriptorium 32 (1978), pp 251-255.
S. Bernardinello, ‘Nuove prospettive sulla cronologia del Pap. Grenf. II 112’, Scriptorium 34 (1980), pp. 239-240.
G. Cavallo, H. Maehler, Greek Bookhands of the Early Byzantine Period A.D. 300 – 800 (Bulletin Supplement 47) (London: University of London, Institute of Classical Studies 1987), pp. 82-83, no. 37.
K. Aland, H.-U. Rosenbaum, Repertorium der griechischen christlichen. Papyri. II, Kirchenväter. Teil 1, Beschreibungen (Patristische Texte und Studien 42) (Berlin-New York: De Gruyter 1995), pp. 537-541, KV81.
G. Cavallo, Il calamo e il papiro. La scrittura greca dall'età ellenistica ai primi secoli di Bisanzio (Papyrologica Florentina XXXVI) (Firenze: Gonnelli 2005), pp. 190-195, 199, and pl. 48b.
G. Cavallo, La scrittura greca e latina dei papiri: una introduzione (Pisa: Serra 2008), pp. 104-105.
P. Radiciotti, ‘Una nuova proposta di datazione per il PSI 1400 con alcune osservazioni sulla maiuscola alessandrina’, Studi di Egittologia e Papirologia 5 (2008), pp. 117-128.
G. Bastianini, G. Cavallo, ‘Un nuovo frammento di Lettera Festale (PSI inv. 3779)’, in G. Bastianini, A. Casanova (eds), I papiri letterari Cristiani. Atti del convegno internazionale di studi in memoria di Mario Naldini, Firenze 10-11 giugno 2010 (Studi e Testi di Papirologia, N.S. 13) (Firenze: Istituto Papirologico “G. Vitelli” 2011), pp. 31-45, pl. 2.
M. Stroppa, ‘L’uso di rotuli per testi cristiani di carattere letterario’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 59 (2013), pp. 347-358 (p. 348 and passim).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)