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Papyrus 1546(a-c)

Record Id:

040-002105325

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002104451

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0000d4

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100143123020.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Papyrus 1546(a-c)

Title:

Handbook for Teaching Declamation (controversiae) (P.Lond.Lit. 140, TM 63515, LDAB 4724, MP³ 2516 + 2551), Xenophon, Memorabilia, IV.2.1-4. (P.Lond.Lit. 150, TM 62987, LDAB 4179, MP³ 1561), and Demosthenes, De Falsa Legatione, 1-7, 9-13 (P.Lond.Lit. 126, P.Oxy. LXVII 4569, TM 59615, LDAB 717, MP³291)

Scope & Content:

Top left fragment (A) (P.Lond.Lit. 140, P.Lond. V 1814 a descr., TM 63515, LDAB 4724, MP³ 2516 + 2551): Papyrus sheet containing three columns of a handbook for teaching declamation written along the fibres. They contain at least one oration; the subject of column 2 is apparently a case of disinheritance. The text joins PSI II 148. Second half of 2^nd century.

Bottom left fragment (B) (P.Lond.Lit. 150, P.Lond. V 1814 b descr., TM 62987, LDAB 4179, MP³ 1561): Portions of three columns containing Xenophon, Memorabilia, IV.2.1-4. 2^nd century.

Right fragment (C) (P.Lond.Lit. 126, P.Lond. V 1814 c descr., P.Oxy. LXVII 4569, TM 59615, LDAB 717, MP³291): Imperfect leaf of a papyrus codex, written on both sides and containing Demosthenes, De falsa legatione, 1-7, 9-13. The text joins another fragment in the Sackler Library, with which it was reedited as P.Oxy. LXVII 4569. 3rd-4th century.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002104451
040-002105325

Is part of:

Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri

Papyrus 1546(a-c) : Handbook for Teaching Declamation (controversiae) (P.Lond.Lit. 140, TM 63515, LDAB 4724, MP3 2516 + 2551), Xenophon,…

Hierarchy:

032-002104451[0475]/040-002105325

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Three literary prose fragments, all mounted in the same glass.

a: Fragment of papyrus sheet containing three columns of 35 lines written along the fibres. The space between the columns measures 10 mm, the width of the margins 127 mm.

b: Portions of three columns, written along the fibres; the first two columns contain 56 lines. The space between the columns is 20 mm, the width of the margins 127 mm.

c: Imperfect leaf of a papyrus codex, written on both sides, 25 lines on the recto and 25 lines on the verso.

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

0100

End Date:

0399

Date Range:

2nd century-4th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Papyrus.

Dimensions:

a: 100 mm × 110 mm.

b: 145 mm × 115 mm.

c: 138 mm × 73 mm.

Housed in a glass case measuring 330 x 255 mm.

Script:

a: Small neat uncial hand, no accents or breathings. Stops are marked by paragraphus and space in the line. In the margin opposite I. 22 sign of χ and opposite to I. 25 another sign.

b: Small regular rounded uncial hand. No punctuation, accents or breathings. Iota adscript frequently added erroneously. Ny is often represented by a supralinear line over the preceding vowel.

c: Medium-sized sloping rather irregular uncial hand inclining to the cursive. No accents or breathings, one mark of elision.

Custodial History:

Origin: Egypt.

Provenance: A, C: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt; B: Egypt. Purchased as part of a lot comprising Papyri 1545-1753 from the Reverend Chauncey Murch (b. 1856, d. 1907) on 8 December 1906.

Former External References:

P.Lond. V 1814a descr.
P.Lond. V 1814b
P.Lond. V 1814c descr.
P.Lond.Lit. 126
P.Lond.Lit. 140
P.Lond.Lit. 150
P.Oxy. LXVII 4569

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1906-1910 (London: British Museum 1912), p. 310.

Papiri greci e latini. Volume secondo. Numeri 113—156 (Firenze : Società Italiana per la ricerca dei Papiri greci e latini in Egitto1913), pp. 79-80.

Greek Papyri in the British Museum. Catalogue, with Texts. Vol. V.(London: British Museum 1917), p. 263, no. 1814 a.

H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: Trustees 1927), pp. 119-120, no. 140.

A. Körte, ‘Literarische Texte mit Auschluß der christlichen’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung 10 (1932), pp. 217-237 (p. 219).

D. Colomo, ‘A handbook for teaching declamation: PSI II 148 + P. Lond. Lit. 140 + P. Oxy. Inv. 115/A(22)b, in Abstracts of the 27th International Congress of Papyrology (Warsaw 2013), pp. 29-30[W1] .

A. Stramaglia, ‘Temi 'sommersi' e trasmissione dei testi nella declamazione antica (con un regesto di papiri declamatorî)’, in L. Del Corso, F. De Vivo, A. Stramaglia (edd.), Nel segno del testo. Edizioni, materiali e studi per O. Pecere (Firenze: Gonnelli 2015, Papyrologica Florentina 44), pp. 147-178 (p. 167, no. 2).

Greek Papyri in the British Museum. Catalogue, with Texts. Vol. V (London: British Museum 1917), p. 263, no. 1814 b.

H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: Trustees 1927), pp. 124–125, no. 150.

Greek Papyri in the British Museum. Catalogue, with Texts. Vol. V. (London: British Museum 1917), pp. 263-264, no. 1814c.

B. Hausmann, Demosthenis fragmenta in papyris et membranis servata. Pars prima (Diss. Leipzig 1921 [Repr. Firenze: Gonelli 1978]), p. 110, no. 114.

H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: Trustees 1927), pp. 95-97, no. 126.

E.G. Turner, ‘Early Papyrus Codices of Large Size’, in J. R. Rea and E. G. Turner (edd.), Proceedings of the XIV International Congress of Papyrologists. Oxford, 24-31 July 1974 (London: Egypt Exploration Society 1975), pp 309-312 (p. 310).

The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Volume LXVII (London: Egypt Exploration Society 2001), pp. 66-80.

Metadata provided by the 2018 Heidelberg Research Webinar on BL Greek Papyri, funded by the MWK Baden-Württemberg and taught by R. Ast and L. Berkes.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Demosthenes, statesman and orator, 384 BC-322 BC
Xenophon, Greek historian and philosopher, c 430BC-354BC

Related Material:

A: The papyrus joins PSI II 148 and another fragment of the same manuscript in the Sackler Library (Oxford): Oxford, Sackler Library, Papyrology Rooms 115/A(22)b.

C: The text joins another fragment of the same manuscript in the Sackler Library (Oxford). The two are reedited together as P.Oxy. LXVII 4569.