Rylands Papyri
The Rylands Papyri are a collection of thousands of
The collection
The Rylands Papyri collection held by the John Rylands University Library, is one of the most extensive and wide-ranging
Darius I of Persia.[4]
The collection also houses about 500
Deuteronomy, the earliest surviving fragments of the New Testament and the Septuagint (Papyrus 957, the Rylands Papyrus iii.458)[4][5] respectively; Papyrus 31, a fragment of a papyrus manuscript of the Epistle to the Romans; and Papyrus 32, a fragment of the Epistle to Titus. Also held in the collection is Papyrus Rylands 463, a copy of the apocryphal Gospel of Mary in Greek, and John Rylands Papyrus 470, a prayer in Koine Greek to the Theotokos, written between 3rd to 9th centuries[6][7] in brown ink, the earliest known copy of such a prayer. It was acquired by the Library in 1917.[8]
Volumes
- Crum, W.E. (1909), Catalogue of the Coptic Manuscripts in the Collection of the John Rylands Library, Manchester
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link). (P.Ryl.Copt.) - Griffith, F.Ll. (1909), Catalogue of the Demotic Papyri in the John Rylands Library, Manchester
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link). (P.Ryl.Dem.)- Volume I: Atlas of Facsimiles.
- Volume II: Hand-copies of the earlier documents.
- Volume III: Key-list, Translations, Commentaries and Indices.
- Hunt, A.S. (1911), Catalogue of the Greek and Latin Papyri in the John Rylands Library, Manchester. Volume I: Literary Texts, Manchester
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link). (P.Ryl. I) - Johnson, J. de M.; Martin, V.; Hunt, A.S. (1915), Catalogue of the Greek and Latin Papyri in the John Rylands Library, Manchester. Volume II: Documents of the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods, Manchester
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link). (P.Ryl. II) - Roberts, C.H. (1938), Catalogue of the Greek and Latin Papyri in the John Rylands Library, Manchester. Volume III: Theological and Literary Texts, Manchester
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) (P.Ryl. III) - Roberts, C.H.; Turner, E.G. (1938), Catalogue of the Greek and Latin Papyri in the John Rylands Library, Manchester. Volume IV: Documents of the Ptolemaic, Roman and Byzantine Periods, Manchester
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link). (P.Ryl. IV)
See also
- John Rylands Library
- P.Ryl. I 4 (p4 on the list Gregory-Aland) — fragment of the Epistle to the Romans in Greek;
- P. Ryl. I 5 (p5 on the list Gregory-Aland) — fragment of the Epistle to Titus in Greek;
- P.Ryl. III 457 (p52 on the list Gregory-Aland) — fragment of the Gospel of Johnin Greek; 2nd century;
- P.Ryl. III 458 — fragments of the Book of Deuteronomy in Greek; 2nd century BC;
- P.Ryl. III 463 — Greek manuscript of the apocryphal Gospel of Mary; 3rd century
Notes
- ^ See 7Q5 for an alternate candidate.
- ^ "N.T. Ancient Manuscripts", List of Ancient New Testament Manuscripts. Archived 2009-02-03 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, G. Vittmann ed., P. Rylands 9, Demotische Textdatenbank, Akademie für Sprache und Literatur Mainz
- ^ John Rylands University Librarywebsite
- ISBN 0-567-08464-7.
- ^ O'Carroll, Michael (1982). Theotokos. A Theological Encyclopedia of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Wilmington: Michael Glazier Inc. p. 336.
- ^ Hans Förster, «Die älteste marianische Antiphon - eine Fehldatierung? Überlegungen zum "ältesten Beleg" des Sub tuum praesidium», in Journal of Coptic Studies 7 (2005), pp. 99-109.
- ^ Prayer to Mary (Greek P 470)
External links
- The Rylands Papyri on the John Rylands University Librarywebsite
- An Arabic Papyrus From The John Rylands Library, 65 AH / 684-685 CE
- Petition by Pediese, a priest of Amen serving during the reign of Darius I