[Papyrus fragments of private letters]

Authors:Pre-1650 Manuscript Collection (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Rare Book & Manuscript Library (Pre-1650 MS 0225th)

Summary:Glass panel (229 x 179 mm.) containing three papyrus fragments. Item 14 dates to the 8th century A.D., measuring 67 x 27 mm. According to Browne (no. 6 in his 1979 study), this papyrus contains the formula for a private letter, and is broken off on all but the top. Note that an earlier inventory identifies this papyrus as a fragment of a tax receipt dating to the 7th century. Item 15 is a fragment of a private letter dating to the 5th-6th centuries A.D., measuring 77 x 73 mm. Item 16 is a fragment of a private letter dating to the 7th-8th centuries A.D., measuring 85 x 65 mm

Manuscript, Coptic, 400-800 A.D.]

Genre:Specimens

Physical Description:3 fragments : papyrus ; sizes vary.

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:881247146

Notes:

Ms. fragments

Title supplied by cataloger

Shelf-mark: Urbana, IL, University of Illinois Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Pre-1650 MS 0225

Former shelf-mark: Items 14-16 of Urbana, IL, University of Illinois Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Pre-1650 MS 0216

Former shelf-mark: Inv. 755805.14 (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library)

Former shelf-mark: Inv. 755805.15 (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library)

Former shelf-mark: Inv. 755805.16 (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library)

Language Notes:Coptic