My thanks to Drew Longacre for drawing my attention to a new web resource on ancient books from William A. Johnson and Nicholas Wagner at Duke. As the website explains:
The Ancient Books Website (ABW) joins a long tradition of open- access tools for papyrological research. The website provides data complementary to those in tools like the Leuven Database of Ancient Books (LDAB), now part of Trismegistos (TM), and the Digital Corpus of Literary Papyri (DCLP). The data captured here are focused on two areas: (1) reconstruction of the physical details of each literary papyrus, and (2) analysis of the scribal features.
Currently, they have two main datasets online that give detail on the physical features and scribal features of bookrolls. Again, from the website:
Physical features. The website provides measurements for width and height (measured or calculated) for features like column, intercolumn, roll, letters, and vertical spacing.
Scribal features. So far, the website provides synoptic analysis of the punctuation, and of scribal usage for nu-movable and iota adscript. We will be adding to these data over time.
Datasets for early codices is said to be coming in 2026.
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