{"id":11803,"date":"2013-10-28T13:21:49","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T13:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=11803"},"modified":"2013-10-28T13:21:49","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T13:21:49","slug":"british-library-beginning-to-digitise-its-papyri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2013\/10\/28\/british-library-beginning-to-digitise-its-papyri\/","title":{"rendered":"British Library beginning to digitise its papyri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sarah Biggs at the <a href=\"http:\/\/britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk\/digitisedmanuscripts\/2013\/10\/precious-papyri.html\">British Library Manuscripts blog<\/a> writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The British Library holds one of the most significant collections of Greek papyri in the world, including the longest and most significant papyrus of the Aristotelian <em>Constitution of Athens<\/em>, unique copies of major texts such as Sophocles\u2019 <em>Ichneutae<\/em>, and the Egerton Gospel, as well as a wide range of important documentary papyri from Oxyrhynchus, Aphrodito, Hibeh, Tebtunis, and the Fayum.\u00a0 The Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum was at the forefront of the new discipline of papyrology at the turn of the nineteenth century, and many of our predecessors are well-known to anyone who has ever consulted a text preserved on papyrus:\u00a0 <a title=\"Frederic Kenyon\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frederic_Kenyon\" target=\"_blank\">Kenyon<\/a>, <a title=\"Idris Bell\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Idris_Bell\" target=\"_blank\">Bell<\/a>, and <a title=\"Theodore Cressy Skeat\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Theodore_Cressy_Skeat\" target=\"_blank\">Skeat<\/a>, to name just three.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Today, we are happy to announce that selected key papyri have been digitised and are now available to view on Digitised Manuscripts, along with completely new catalogue descriptions.\u00a0 Five papyri are available online now, and two more items will appear in the coming weeks\u00a0 &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a title=\"Papyrus 229\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Papyrus_229&amp;index=0\" target=\"_blank\">Papyrus 229 (P. Lond. I 229)<\/a>:\u00a0 Latin deed of the sale of a slave boy, retaining the seals of its signatories<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a title=\"Papyrus 1531\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Papyrus_1531&amp;index=0\" target=\"_blank\">Papyrus 1531 (P. Oxy. IV 654\/P. Lond. Lit. 222):<\/a>\u00a0 Fragment of the Gospel of Thomas, in Greek<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Papyrus_2052&amp;index=0\">Papyrus 2052 (P. Oxy. VIII 1073\/P. Lond. Lit. 200):<\/a>\u00a0 Fragment of Old Latin Genesis, from a parchment codex<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a title=\"Papyrus 2068\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Papyrus_2068&amp;index=0\" target=\"_blank\">Papyrus 2068 (P. Oxy. IX 1174\/P. Lond. Lit. 67)<\/a>:\u00a0 Sophocles, <em>Ichneutae<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a title=\"Egerton Papyrus 2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Egerton_Papyrus_2&amp;index=0\" target=\"_blank\">Egerton Papyrus 2 (P. Lond. Christ. 1\/P. Egerton 2)<\/a>:\u00a0 The Egerton Gospel<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Excellent news, I&#8217;m sure we all agree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Biggs at the British Library Manuscripts blog writes: The British Library holds one of the most significant collections of Greek papyri in the world, including the longest and most significant papyrus of the Aristotelian Constitution of Athens, unique copies of major texts such as Sophocles\u2019 Ichneutae, and the Egerton Gospel, as well as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[338,889,1271],"class_list":["post-11803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-my-diary-announcements","tag-british-library","tag-information-access","tag-papyri"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}