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Papyrus 1532
- Record Id:
- 040-002105310
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0000c0
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100192320290.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 1532
- Title:
- Epitome of Livy (P.Oxy. IV 668, TM 61429, LDAB 2574), and Paul, Epistle to the Hebrews (P.Oxy. IV 657, P13, TM 61861, LDAB 3018)
- Scope & Content:
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Recto: Epitome of books 37–40, 47, 48–55 from Livy, Ab Urbe Condita. The text is of great importance for philology and also for its palaeographic and material characteristics. It is a working copy for ordinary use, probably made in Egypt. The date has been much debated.
Verso: Paul, Epistle to the Hebrews 2:14-5:5, 10:8-22, 10:29-11:13, 11:28-12:17. Assigned to the mid 3rd-mid 4th century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105310 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 1532 : Epitome of Livy (P.Oxy. IV 668, TM 61429, LDAB 2574), and Paul, Epistle to the Hebrews (P.Oxy. IV 657, P13, TM 61861, LDAB 3018) - Contains:
- Papyrus 1532(1) : Part 1 of the Epitome of Livy, and Paul, Epistle to the Hebrews 2:14-3:9
Papyrus 1532(2) : Part 2 of the Epitome of Livy, and Paul, Epistle to the Hebrews 3:9-5:5
Papyrus 1532(3) : Part 3 of the Epitome of Livy, and Paul, Epistle to the Hebrews 10:8-22, 29-33
Papyrus 1532(4) : Part 4 of the Epitome of Livy, and Paul, Epistle to the Hebrews 10:33-11:13
Papyrus 1532(5) : Part 5 of the Epitome of Livy, and Paul, Epistle to the Hebrews 11:28-12:17
Papyrus 1532(6) : Part 6 of the Epitome of Livy and of Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews
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- 032-002104451[1195]/040-002105310
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Fragments of a papyrus roll, additional portions of which have been published as PSI XII 1292; with writing on both sides. On the front, the text is arranged in eight columns of c. 27 lines each, except for col. III having 28 lines of variable width, since lines are aligned just at their beginning (left side) but not at the end (right side). This makes it impossible to reconstruct exactly the intercolumnar space, perhaps of c. 6–7 cm. On the whole, the unwritten margins of the roll have an average measure of c. 4 cm, whereas the overall height of each sheet of the roll is c. 26 cm. All columns except for col. VII are partially preserved. The papyrus was reused on the back.
There survive twelve broad columns with 23-27 lines to the column, numbered at the top, written across the fibres, the other way up in relation to the text on the front.
Housed in six glass frames.
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- Languages:
- Greek
Latin - Scripts:
- Greek
Latin - Start Date:
- 0100
- End Date:
- 0399
- Date Range:
- 2nd century-4th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: Fragments of varying size, the largest measuring 262 x 358 mm; housed in six glass frames.
Script: The Latin writing combines cursive and capital characters (see especially B, D, F, G, H, L, P, Q, R and S) and thus witnesses the substitution of minuscule for capital letters that occurred between the late 2nd and 4th centuries AD. The number of each book of Livy’s work is written in symbols at the centre of the column, before the summary. The lines mentioning the consuls of each new year are in ekthesis. Abbreviations are commonly employed in praenomina and titles; other abbreviations are rare.
Verso: Greek; 'Formal mixed' bookhand, Severe Style, sloping to the right, somewhat coarse and irregular. Occasional lectional signs and punctuation occur.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt. Presented as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1523-1544 by the Egypt Exploration Fund in November 1906.
- Former External References:
- CLA II 208
CPL 33-34
P.Lond.Lit. 120
P.Lond.Lit. 218
P.Oxy. IV 657
P.Oxy. IV 668 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1906-1910 (London: Trustees of the British Museum 1912), p. 310.
Recto
Edward M. Thompson, The New Palaeographical Society. Facsimiles of ancient manuscripts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1903), pl. 53.
Bernard P. Grenfell, Arthur S. Hunt, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri IV (London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1904), pp. 90–116 no. 668.
F. Kornemann, ‘Die neue Livius-Epitome aus Oxyrhynchus’, Klio 2 Beiheft (1904), 14–34.
Richard Seider, Paläographie der Lateinischen Papyri. II.1 Literarische Papyri (Stuttgart: A. Hiersemann, 1978).
Paul Jal, Abrégés des livres de l’Histoire romaine de Tite-Live (Paris: 1984), pp. 116–27.
Guglielmo Cavallo, La scrittura greca e latina dei papiri (Pisa: F. Serra, 2008), p. 170.
Rodolfo Funari, Corpus dei Papiri Storici greci e latini, Parte B: Storici latini – 1.2: C. Sallustius Crispus (Pisa-Roma: F. Serra, 2011).
Natascia Pellé, Le livre d’histoire dans les papyrus (Cahiers du CeDoPal 7, Liège: éditions de l’Université de Liège, 2011), pl. 5.
Serena Ammirati, Sul libro latino antico. Ricerche bibliologiche e paleografiche (Biblioteca degli Studi di Egittologia e Papirologia 12, Pisa–Roma: F. Serra, 2015).
Verso
Bernard P. Grenfell, Arthur S. Hunt, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Part IV (London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1904), pp. 35-48, no. 657.
Caspar R. Gregory, Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament (Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung, 1908). p. 47.
Caspar R. Gregory, Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, vols. I-III (Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, 1900-1909), vol. III (1909), p. 1091.
Herbert J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1927), p. 184, no. 218.
Heinrich Joseph Vogels, Codicum Novi Testamenti Specimina (Bonn: Hanstein, 1929), pl. ii.
Kurt Aland, Repertorium der griechischen christlichen Papyri: 1: Biblische Papyri: Altes Testament, Neues Testament, Varia, Apokryphen (Berlin-New York: W. De Gruyter, 1976), pp. 232-3, no. NT13.
Joseph van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires juifs et chrétiens (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 1976), no. 537 descr.
Eric G. Turner, The typology of the early codex (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1977), p. 146.
Peter M. Head, M. Warren, ‘Re-inking the Pen: Evidence from P. Oxy. 657 (P13) concerning Unintentional Scribal Errors’, New Testament Studies 43 (1997) 466–73.
Philip W. Comfort, David P. Barrett, The complete text of the earliest New Testament manuscripts (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, 1999), pp. 73-82.
Philip W. Comfort, Encountering the manuscripts: an introduction to New Testament paleography & textual criticism (Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005), p. 166.
Karl Jaroš, Das Neue Testament nach den ältesten griechischen Handschriften. CD-ROM: Die handschriftliche griechische Überlieferung des Neuen Testaments vor Codex Sinaiticus und Codes Vaticanus 2.47 (Echter Verlag GmbH, 2006), pp. 4265-373.
Guglielmo Cavallo, La scrittura greca e latina dei papiri: una introduzione (Pisa: Serra, 2008), p. 112.
J. Keith Elliott, ‘Supplement III to J.K. Elliott. A Bibliography of Greek New Testament Manuscripts’, Novum Testamentum 52 (2010), 272–97.
Annemarie Luijendijk, ‘Sacred Scriptures as Trash’, Vigiliae Christinae 64 (2010), 217-54 (pp. 251-2).
Willy Clarysse, Pasquale Orsini, ‘Early New Testament Manuscripts and Their Dates: A Critique of Theological Palaeography’, Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses 88 (2012), 443-74 (p. 469).
Lincoln H. Blumell, Thomas A. Wayment, Christian Oxyrhynchus: Texts, Documents, and Sources (Waco: Baylor University Press, 2015), no. 32.
Metadata on the recto (Livy) provided by the PLATINUM project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement nº 636983), University of Naples 'Federico II'.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)