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Papyrus 2240
- Record Id:
- 040-002105454
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x00014e
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100147467428.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2240
- Title:
- Paul, Letter to the Corinthians (P.Lond.Lit. 216, TM 61876, LDAB 3033)
- Scope & Content:
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Papyrus 2240(1):
Recto, column 1: Cor. 11:33-34, 12:2-3;
Column 2: Cor. 12:3-7;
Verso, column 1: Cor. 12:8-10;
Column 2: Cor. 12:11-13;
with traces of Cor. 12:2, 12 and 14:21, 27 on the small fragment at the top, and additional fragments, unidentified.
Papyrus 2240(2)
Recto, column 1: Cor. 14:20-21;
Column 2: Cor. 14:21-24;
Verso, column 1: Cor. 14:24-26;
Column 2: Cor. 14:26-29.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105454 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2240 : Paul, Letter to the Corinthians (P.Lond.Lit. 216, TM 61876, LDAB 3033) - Contains:
- Papyrus 2240(1) : Portions from Paul's Letter to the Corinthians 11-14
Papyrus 2240(2) : Portions from Paul's Letter to the Corinthians 14
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Papyrus 2240 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0520]/040-002105454
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Fragments of two leaves of a parchment codex, darkened in places and with holes; housed in two glass frames named Papyrus 2240(1) and Papyrus 2240(2); written on both sides, with two columns per page; 19 lines to the column; the column width is 45 mm; with modern annotations.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147467428.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0400
- End Date:
- 0449
- Date Range:
- 1st half of 5th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 140 x 140 mm; housed in two glass frames named Papyrus 2240(1) and Papyrus 2240(2) measuring 180 x 230 mm and 180 x 205 mm respectively.
Script: Biblical Majuscule; diaeresis and medial point; nomina sacra contracted.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Egypt.
Provenance: Wadi Sarga, Egypt. Presented by Byzantine Research Fund, having funded the excavations conducted on the site by Reginald Campbell Thompson (b. 1876, d. 1941), in 1913-1914. Transferred from the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities of the British Museum on 4 August 1921.
- Former External References:
- P.Lond.Lit. 216
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1916-1920 (London: British Museum 1933), p. 373.
W. E. Crum, H. I. Bell, Wadi Sarga: Coptic and Greek Texts from the Excavations undertaken by the Byzantine Research Account (Coptica, Vol. III) (Copenhagen (Hauniae): Gyldendal and Nordisk Forlag 1922), pp. 32-42, no. 9.
H. J. M. Milne, Catalogue of Literary Papyri in the British Museum (London: British Museum 1927), p. 183, no. 216.
E. von Dobschütz, ‘ Zur Liste der NTlichen Handschriften IV’, Zeitschrift Für Die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft Und Kunde Der Älteren Kirche 32 (1933), pp. 185–206.
K. Aland, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments (Berlin and New York: De Gruyter 1963), p. 53, no. 0201.
J. van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires juifs et chrétiens (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne 1976), no. 509.
E. G. Turner, The typology of the early codex (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 1977), pp. 140, 160.
K. Aland, K. (1987). ‘Alter und Entstehung des D-Textes im Neuen Testament. Betrachtungen zu P69 und 0171’, in S. Janeras (ed.), Miscellània Papirològica Ramon Roca-Puig en el seu vuitantè aniversari (Barcelona: Fundació Salvador Vives Casajuana 1987), pp. 37–61.
J. K. Elliott, A Survey of Manuscripts Used in Editions of the Greek New Testament (Leiden-New York: E. J. Brill 1987), p. 24.
E. Güting, ‘Neuedition der Pergamentfragmente London Brit.Libr.Pap. 2240 aus dem Wadi Sarga mit neutestamentlichem Text’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 75 (1988), pp. 97-114.
E. J. Schnabel, Der erste Brief des Paulus an die Korinther (Wuppertal: R. Brockhaus Verlag GmbH 2006).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)