NT
& Papyrology Lecture
1 Lecture
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Papyrology:
Session 2: Texts & Resources
By Peter M. Head (Web Page)
a.
Publications of Papyri
i.
Bibliographies
in O. Montevecchi, La Papirologia (Torino: SEI, 1973 [NB. revised
edition 1988]), pp. 407-433. Also in E.G. Turner, Greek Papyri: An
Introduction (revised edition; Oxford: Clarendon Press 1980), pp. 154-179.
ii. Checklist of Editions of Greek, Latin, Demotic and Coptic Papyri, Ostraca and Tablets (ed. John F. Oates, Roger S. Bagnall, Klaas A. Worp, Joshua D. Sosin, Sarah J. Clackson, Terry G. Wilfong, Alexandra A. O'Brien; 2000) Checklist of Editions
iii.
R.A.
Pack, The Greek and Latin Literary Texts from Graeco-Roman Egypt (Ann
Arbor, 1952, 1965 2nd; 3rd edition: P. Mertens, Liege).
La base de
données expérimentale Mertens-Pack 3
b.
Relevant accessible collections
1.
A.S.
Hunt & C.C. Edgar, Select Papyri 1-2 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press & London: Heinemann, 1932-1934). D.L. Page (ed), vol.
3: Literary Papyri. Poetry (Cambridge 1941)
2.
P.W.
Pestman, The New Papyrological Primer (revised edition; Leiden: E.J.
Brill, 1994).
3.
G.
Milligan, Selections from the Greek Papyri (Cambridge: CUP, 1912).
4.
B.
Olsson, Papyrusbriefe aus der frühesten Römerzeit (1925). J. Hengstl, Griechische
Papyri aus Aegypten (1978).
5.
U.
Wilcken & L. Mitteis, Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Payruskunde
(Leipzig & Berlin, 1912; 4 vols).
I. Historischer Teil (U.
Wilcken). v.1: Grundzüge; v.2: Chrestomathie
II. Juristischer Teil (L.
Mitteis). v.1: Grundzüge; v.2: Chrestomathie
6.
O.
Montevecchi, La Papirologia (Torino: SEI, 1973): good collection of
photos.
7.
F.
Preisigke et al., Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Aegypten
(Marburg, 1915-; 21 vols): reprints texts published in journals etc = SB
8.
F.
Preisigke et al., Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyruskunden (Berlin–Leipzig,
Leiden, 1913-; 10
vols): published corrections = BL
9.
Corpus
Papyrorum Judaicarum
(ed. V.A. Tcherikover & A. Fuks et al.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP; 3 vols,
1957-1964; vol 1: Ptolemaic; vol 2: Early Roman (i.e. 30 BC - AD 117); vol 3:
Late Roman and Byzantine.
Aim: include all texts (520 in all; many
ostraka re tax receipts) which relate to Jews and Jewish affairs; establish
correct text; commentary; bibliography.
10.
Corpus Papyrorum Christianarum (ed. E.A. Judge; Macquarrie U).
E.A. Judge, 'Selection criteria for the Corpus
Papyrorum Christianarum', Atti del XVII Congresso Internazionale di
Papirologia (Naples 1984), 117-122.
E.A. Judge, 'Papyri', in Everett Ferguson (ed.), Encyclopedia of Early
Christianity (New York 1990), 687-691.
Corpus Papyrorum
Christianarum
c.
Other General Resources:
i.
Electronic
Bibliographie papyrologique (Brussels). BIBLIOGRAPHIE
PAPYROLOGIQUE
covers 1976-1990: all print publications on literary and documentary papyri of
Egypt. Card-catalogue version available in some dedicated libraries (goes back
to 1932).
ii.
Aegyptus: list of newly published papyri every year.
iii.
G.H.R. Horsley et al., New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity (Macquarrie; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 8 vols)
d.
General/Inclusive Web Based Resources:
1.
Heidelberger
Gesamtverseichnis der Griechischen Papyruskunden Agyptens (HGV). Immensely important
resource: complete register of all (published) documentary papyri from Egypt
(44,084 records); includes ‘erwähnte daten’ list of 9,288 dated papyri (http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~gv0/)
(dates revised and more accurate than original publications). [1]
2.
Woerterlisten
(aus den Registern von Publikationen griechischer und lateinischer
dokumentarischer Papyri und Ostraka; D. Hagedorn, 2002)
3.
Perseus
Project (http://perseus.tufts.edu/ or http://perseus.csad.ox.ac.uk/) Via
Tyndale House access page: Perseus
Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri (http://odyssey.lib.duke.edu/papyrus/texts/DDBDP.html)
Contains prob 90% of all published papyri (Packard Humanities Institute 7:
32,400).[2]
Searchable Liddel-Scott Lexicon Look up entries in the
Greek Lexicon
4.
Leuven Database of Ancient Books
‘The present database attempts to collect the basic information on all ancient
literary texts, as opposed to documents. It now includes 7096 items, dating
from the fourth century B.C. to A.D. 800 and incorporating authors from Homer
(8th cent. B.C.) to Romanus Melodus (6th cent. A.D.), besides 2889 texts for
which the author can no longer be identified’.
Up-date at 13.3.2002:
I have just put
a renewed version of the Leuven Database of Ancient
Books on line. The homepage is made more
user-friendly and reflects a
normal Filemaker make-up. There is a new field
"URL", listing
photographs on line (1041 links already!). The
750 new Iliad papyri
listed by West in his recent book are included, but
also all Latin
manuscripts in Lowe, Codices Latini Antiquiores, and
Greek
manuscripts of the Old Testament listed in Rahlfs up
to AD 800. The
LDAB now collects all Greek and Latin manuscripts
known to me up to
AD 800. Those who want to see papyri only, should
fill in the field
PROVENANCE as "Egypt",
"Herculaneum" and "Palestine". There are now
9785 texts in the database, 7669 of which are from Egypt. (Willy Clarysse)
This includes (4.7.2002): 6583 literary papyri (excluding ostraca etc.)
5.
List
and Collection of papyrus archives (‘groups of papyri that were collected and kept together in Antiquity
either by a person or by an institution’) archives (at LHPC, see
below; linked with Heidelberger database, see above)
e.
Location or Subject Specific Web Based Resources:
i.
Oxyrhynchus
(Oxyrhynchus)
ii.
Advanced
Papyrological Information System (APIS)
http://www.columbia.edu/dlc/apis
Catalogues of six American papyrus collections: Berkeley, Columbia,
Duke, Michigan, Princeton, and Yale. To varying degrees the records include
translations, links to the texts in the Duke Data Bank of Documentary Papyri,
and links to digital images. ‘The APIS project constitutes the efforts of
papyrologists at a number of American universities to integrate in a
"virtual" library the holdings from their collections through digital
images and detailed catalog records that will provide information pertaining to
the external and the internal characteristics of each papyrus, corrections to
previously published papyri, and republications.’
1.
Duke Papyrus Archive: ‘provides electronic access to texts
about and images of nearly 1400 papyri from ancient Egypt.’ Images and database
record. Search, browse by topic/subject, browse by language, general
information and bibliographies. Useful.
2.
The University of Michigan Papyrus
Collection: over 7,000 items. Some searchable.
Topic/subject section: Administration and Law, Daily Life/Cultural Aspects,
Geographica, Languages and Scripts, Literature and Education, Materials,
Science and Religion, Social Status, Women and Children, Chronology.
Highlights include:
30 leaves of P46 [purchased for $7,500 in 1932: H.A. Sanders, A Third-Century Papyrus Codex
of the Epistles of Paul (Ann Arbor, Univ. of Mich. Press, 1935)]; 62 pages
of Hermas (III) [C. Bonner, A Papyrus Codex of the Shepherd of Hermas
(Ann Arbor, Univ. of Mich. Press, 1934)]; c. 10% of Zenon Papyri; two tax rolls
from Karanis (107 feet long, 60 feet long; $10,000 in 1925: H. C. Youtie, P.
Mich. IV, Pt. I, Tax rolls from Karanis, Ann Arbor, 1936 and H. C. Youtie
and O. M. Pearl, id., Pt. II, Ann Arbor, 1939.]
3.
Berkeley:
The Tebtunis Papyri Collection 1200 documents (21,000 fragments) from Tebtunis (1899/90).
Pictures, searchable database etc.
4.
Yale Papyrus Database:only a search engine.
5.
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY LIBRARY PAPYRUS
HOME PAGE: descriptive inventory and images of selected texts.
iii.
Universität Heidelberg, Institut für Papyrologie Übersicht
iv.
Die
Papyrus-Sammlung in Köln
v.
Electronic
Resources for Classicists (M. Pantelia; http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~tlg/index/resources.html)
vi.
Argos
Search Engine (http://argos.evansville.edu/)
vii.
Database
of Marriage and Divorce Papyri (Graeco-Roman
Marriage Papyri)
viii.
International Association of
Papyrologists Links Page
f.
Locating
originals and procuring photographs
Leuven Homepage of Papyrus
Collections Worldwide
International Association of Papyrologists: Centres of Papyrological
Study & List of
Members
g.
Even
More Resources:
i.
Preisigke, F. Wörterbuch der
griechischen Papyrusurkunden (Berlin 1926–31) (selected topics treated in
v.3, Abschnitte, grouped by subject)
Kiessling, E. Wörterbuch . Supplement IV in 5 fascicules, a
- zvfut°v (Marburg 1944–1993) (update of Preisigke with very
useful parallels for each entry)
Rupprecht, H.–A. Wörterbuch der griechischen Papyrusurkunden . Supplement II.
(Wiesbaden 1992)
ii.
Mayser, E. Grammatik d. griech. Papyri
aus d. Ptolemäerzeit (Berlin and Leipzig 1906–1938)
iii.
Gignac, F. A Grammar of the Greek
Papyri of the Roman and Byzantine Periods.
v. 1: Phonology (Milano
1976); v.2: Morphology (Milano 1981)
iv.
Roberts, C.H. Greek Literary
Hands. 350 BC – AD 400. (Oxford 1956)
v.
Cavallo, G.–Maehler H. Greek
Bookhands of the early Byzantine Period.
BICS Suppl. 47 (1987)
vi.
Seider, R. Paläographie d. griech.
Papyri. (Stuttgart 1967-70); v.1: documentary texts; v.2: literary texts.
vii.
Preisendanz, K. – Henrichs, A. Papyri
Magicae Graecae2
2 vols. (Stuttgart 1973, 1974). Betz, H.D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation, including the Demotic Spells.
(Chicago 1992, 2nd edition)
viii.
Turner, E.G. The Typology of the
early Codex. (Philadelphia 1977)
ix.
H.C.
Youtie, Textual Criticism of Documentary Papyri: prolegomena (BICS Supp.
33; London: Institute of Classical Studies, 1972 [=2nd ed. Revised
and enlarged]) cf. also his collected papers, Scriptiunculae posteriores
(2 vols; Bonn: Rudolf Habelt, 1981)
Peter M.
Head, July 2001 (Web Page)
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