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Papyrus 2561

Record Id:

040-002105557

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002104451

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x0001d6

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Papyrus 2561

Title:

Shorthand Manual with List of Menander's Play (TM 64311, LDAB 5532, MP³2760)

Scope & Content:

Leaves from a papyrus codex containing a manual of Greek shorthand covering signs (tetrads) 1-810. Each tachygraphic sign corresponds to a tetrad of words, arranged within themselves in a rough alphabetic order. Some pages are blank.

Papyrus 2561(1-2): Signs 1-83;

Papyrus 2561(3): Signs 84-120;

Papyrus 2561(4): Signs 124-159;

Papyrus 2561(5): Signs 163-200;

Papyrus 2561(6): Signs 201-236;

Papyrus 2561(7): Signs 237-275;

Papyrus 2561(8): Signs 276-325;

Papyrus 2561(9, 17): Signs 326-358, with list of Menander’s plays; signs 573-615;

Papyrus 2561(10, 16): Signs 359-391; signs 539-572;

Papyrus 2561(11, 15): Signs 392-422; signs 504-538;

Papyrus 2561(12, 14): Signs 423-438; signs 472-503

Papyrus 2561(13): Signs 439-471;

Papyrus 2561(18): Signs 616-652;

Papyrus 2561(19): Signs 653-686;

Papyrus 2561(20): Signs 687-718;

Papyrus 2561(21): Signs 719-752;

Papyrus 2561(22): Signs 753-789;

Papyrus 2561(23): Signs 790-810;

Papyrus 2561(24), Papyrus 2561(25-27): Blank.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002104451
040-002105557

Is part of:

Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri

Papyrus 2561 : Shorthand Manual with List of Menander's Play (TM 64311, LDAB 5532, MP3 2760)

Hierarchy:

032-002104451[0543]/040-002105557

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Fragmentary leaves from a papyrus codex, originally forming a quire of twelve double leaves and one central single leaf. Each page contains two columns. Some of the fragments are blank. Housed in twenty glass frame named Papyrus 2561(1-2), Papyrus 2561(3), Papyrus 2561(4), Papyrus 2561(5), Papyrus 2561(6), Papyrus 2561(7), Papyrus 2561(8), Papyrus 2561(9, 17), Papyrus 2561(10, 16), Papyrus 2561(11, 15), Papyrus 2561(12, 14), Papyrus 2561(13), Papyrus 2561(18), Papyrus 2561(19), Papyrus 2561(20), Papyrus 2561(21), Papyrus 2561(22), Papyrus 2561(23), Papyrus 2561(24), Papyrus 2561(25-27).

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

0200

End Date:

0399

Date Range:

3rd century-4th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Papyrus.

Dimensions: Page: 150 x 235 mm; housed in twenty glass frames.

Script: Semi-cursive hand of medium size. Same scriptorium as Papyrus 2562.

Custodial History:

Origin: Egypt.

Provenance: Egypt. Purchased with a lot comprising Papyri 2556-2647 in November 1924, as part of a joint purchase with the University of Michigan, Columbia University, Princeton University, New York University, Wilfred Merton (b. 1888, d. 1957), and Alfred Chester Beatty (b. 1875, d. 1968); acquired from Maurice Nahman (b. 1868, d. 1948).

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1921-1925 (London: British Museum, 1950), p. 369.

Herbert J. M. Milne, Greek Shorthand Manuals: Syllabary and Commentary (London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1934), pp. 7-8, 57-67, no. 2561.

Eric G. Turner, The typology of the early codex (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 1977), pp. 59, 73, and passim.

Thomas S. Pattie, Eric G. Turner, The Written Word on Papyrus (London: The British Library Board, 1974), p. 25, no. 27.

Corpus dei papiri filosofici greci e latini: CPF. Testi e lessico nei papiri di cultura greca e latina. 1, Autori noti. 1 (Firenze: L. S. Olschki, 1989), pp. 235-36.

Giovanna Menci, ‘Per una schedatura computerizzata dei sillabari tachigrafici’, in Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Papyrologists. Copenhagen, 23-29 August, 1992, edited by Adam Bülow-Jacobsen (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 1994), pp. 621-267.

Giovanna Menci, in Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Papyrology: Cairo, 2 - 9 September 1989, ed. by A. H. S. El-Mosalamy (Cairo: Ain Shams University, Center of Papyrological Studies, 1992), vol. 1, (p. 464 no. 14).

Corpus dei papiri filosofici greci e latini: CPF. Testi e lessico nei papiri di cultura greca e latina. 4, Tavole (Firenze: L. S. Olschki, 2000), plates 64-65.

Giovanna Menci, 'Echi letterari nei papiri tachigrafici', in Atti del XXII Congresso Internazionale di Papirologia. Firenze, 23-29 agosto 1998, edited by Isabella Andorlini, Guido Bastianini, Manfredo Manfredi, Giovanna Menci (Firenze: Istituto Papirologico G.Vitelli, 2001), pp. 927-36 (pp. 931-33).

Corpus dei papiri filosofici greci e latini. Testi e lessico nei papiri di cultura greca e latina. 2, Frammenti adespoti; Gnomologi e sentenze. 3, Gnomica (Firenze: L. S. Olschki, 2017), p. 31.

Giovanna Menci, ‘Alla ricerca delle tetradi perdute (Commentario Milne 576-583)’, in Polymatheia. Studi classici offerti a Mario Capasso, ed. by Paola Davoli, Natascia Pellé (Lecce: Pensa multimedia, 2018), pp. 311-18.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)