The
Princeton University's collection of papyri, housed at the
Princeton UniversityPrinceton University a private university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League and is considered one of the Colonial Colleges....
, 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
CopticCoptic or Coptic Egyptian is the final stage of the Egyptian language, a northern Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Egypt until at least the seventeenth century. Egyptian began to be written using the Greek alphabet in the first century...
papyri have been published.
The first papyri arrived at Princeton between 1901 and 1922.
- Pharaonic Papyri
- Biblical manuscripts (20
Papyrus 20 , signed by 20, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Epistle of James, it contains only James 2:19-3:9. The manuscript paleographically had been assigned to the early 3rd century.- Description :Neatly written in upright semi-cursive...
, 54Papyrus 54 , signed by 54, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. The manuscript palaeographically had been assigned to the 5th century ....
, manuscripts of LXXThe Septuagint , or simply "LXX", referred to in critical works by the abbreviation ...
)
- Christian literature (writings of the Church Fathers)
- Greek Documentary Papyri
- Arabic Papyri
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The
Princeton University's collection of papyri, housed at the
Princeton UniversityPrinceton University a private university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League and is considered one of the Colonial Colleges....
, 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
CopticCoptic or Coptic Egyptian is the final stage of the Egyptian language, a northern Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Egypt until at least the seventeenth century. Egyptian began to be written using the Greek alphabet in the first century...
papyri have been published.
The first papyri arrived at Princeton between 1901 and 1922.
- Pharaonic Papyri
- Biblical manuscripts (20
Papyrus 20 , signed by 20, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Epistle of James, it contains only James 2:19-3:9. The manuscript paleographically had been assigned to the early 3rd century.- Description :Neatly written in upright semi-cursive...
, 54Papyrus 54 , signed by 54, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. The manuscript palaeographically had been assigned to the 5th century ....
, manuscripts of LXXThe Septuagint , or simply "LXX", referred to in critical works by the abbreviation ...
)
- Christian literature (writings of the Church Fathers)
- Greek Documentary Papyri
- Arabic Papyri
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