The Princeton University's collection of papyri, housed at the
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...
, was compiled by Rosalie Cook and other papyrologists, working under the supervision of Don C. Skemer. The catalog contains 1529 inventory items, 648 of them belong to 'unidentified papyri', nearly 700 items in Greek, 260 of them are published. 115 papyri written in various scripts of the Egyptian language, only 8
Coptic
Coptic may refer to:
Afro-Asia
* Copts, an ethnoreligious group mainly in the area of modern Egypt but also in Sudan and Libya
* Coptic language, a Northern Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Egypt until at least the 17th century
* Coptic alphabet ...
papyri have been published.
The first papyri arrived at Princeton between 1901 and 1922 (90 papyri).
[Don C. Skemer]
A DESCRIPTIVE INVENTORY OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY COLLECTIONS OF PAPYRI
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* Pharaonic Papyri
* Biblical manuscripts ( 𝔓20, 𝔓54, manuscripts of LXX
The Greek Old Testament, or Septuagint (, ; from the la, septuaginta, lit=seventy; often abbreviated ''70''; in Roman numerals, LXX), is the earliest extant Greek translation of books from the Hebrew Bible. It includes several books beyond th ...
)
* Christian literature (writings of the Church Fathers)
* Greek Documentary Papyri
* Arabic Papyri
References
External links
at the ''Princeton University Library''
Two Princeton Papyri Revised
at the ''Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists'' 33 (1996), pp. 73–76.
Papyrology
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