Exhibit A: Greek papyri found in a box in a college library
Exhibit B: Medieval manuscript found in a box in a college library.
NB. P52 was found in a box in a library (unfortunately wikipedia doesn't mention this)
Just a reminder: "the best place to look for ancient manuscripts is in a library" (cf. previously here and here).
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And now another example of Peter Head's famous dictum: Nine papyri, probably from Karanis, one of them a libellus from the time of Decius, have been discovered just last month among the papers of a former president of Luther College, in Decorah, Iowa.
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Back in the late 1970s, while rummaging around in a third-floor seminary library storage area, I came across a single lectionary leaf buried deep among other irrelevant papers.
ReplyDeleteI duly reported the leaf to the INTF along with a photocopy and collation, and it became GA L-2282 (the K. Liste dates it as XVI, but I suspect it is two or three centuries earlier).
http://bricecjones.weebly.com/1/post/2014/02/new-manuscripts-discovered-at-qumran.html
ReplyDeleteA Dead Sea Scroll fragment at Lanier Theological Library, Houston, Texas, I'm told by the library director, will be published by Emanuel Tov in the next issue of Dead Sea Discoveries. A photo at 2:15-17 in a video:
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