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Bookrolls and scribes in Oxyrhynchus /

"Lying now under the sand 300 kilometres south of the coastal metropolis of Alexandria, the town of Oxyrhynchus rose to prominence under Egypt's Hellenistic and Roman rulers. The 1895 British-led excavation revealed little in the way of buildings and other cultural artefacts, but instead y...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Johnson, William A. (William Allen), 1956-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2004.
Colección:Studies in book and print culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Contents
  • Terminology, Conventions, and Sigla
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 Introduction
  • 1.0 Voluminology
  • 1.1 Gathering the Evidence: The Necessity for Autopsy
  • 1.2 Definition of the Project
  • 1.3 Reconstruction of the Bookroll
  • 2 Scribes in Oxyrhynchus: Scribal Habits, Paradosis, and the Uniformity of the Literary Roll
  • 2.0 Prologue: The Importance of Case Studies
  • 2.1 A Survey of Scribes with Multiple Surviving Rolls
  • 2.1.1 Scribe #A1
  • 2.1.2 Scribe #A2
  • 2.1.3 Scribe #A3
  • 2.1.4 Scribe #A5
  • 2.1.5 Scribe #A6
  • 2.1.6 Scribe #A7
  • 2.1.7 Scribe #A172.1.8 Scribe #A19
  • 2.1.9 Scribe #A20
  • 2.1.10 Scribe #A24
  • 2.1.11 Scribe #A25
  • 2.1.12 Scribe #A28
  • 2.1.13 Scribe #A30
  • 2.1.14 Scribe #A31
  • 2.1.15 Scribe #A33
  • 2.1.16 Scribe #B1
  • 2.1.17 Scribe #B2
  • 2.1.18 Scribe #B3
  • 2.1.19 Scribe #B4
  • 2.1.20 Scribe #B5
  • 2.1.21 Scribe #B6
  • 2.2 Scribes with Multiple Surviving Rolls: Summary and Evaluation
  • 2.2.1 Excursus: Format changes in mid-roll
  • 2.3 How Did the Scribe Copy the Text? Implicit examples for and against line-by-line copying
  • 2.3.1 Copying the Text: Examples of scribal error that imply an exemplar of same or similar line length2.3.2 Copying the Text: Examples of scribal error that imply an exemplar of different line length
  • 2.3.3 Copying the Text: A remarkable example where different papyri of the same text coincide in line division
  • 2.3.4 Copying the Text: Summary and conclusion
  • 2.4 Uniformity and Variation in Bookrolls
  • 2.4.1 Uniformity and Variation: Width of column, intercolumn, and width from column to column
  • 2.4.2 Uniformity and Variation: Height of column, margins, and height of roll2.5 Conclusions
  • Tables
  • 3 Formal Characteristics of the Bookroll
  • 3.0 Prologue: A Different Aesthetic
  • 3.1 Construction of the Bookroll
  • 3.1.1 Kollesis and Kollema: The constitution of the roll
  • 3.1.2 Laying out the Columns: Maas's Law, ruling and alignment dots
  • 3.1.3 Excursus: The laying out of columns in the Arden Hyperides papyrus (MP 1233)
  • 3.2 Dimensions of the Column: Widths
  • 3.2.1 Column Width in Prose Texts
  • 3.2.2 Intercolumn and Column-to-column Width in Prose Texts3.2.3 Letter Counts in Prose Texts
  • 3.2.4 Column and Intercolumn Widths in Verse Texts
  • 3.3 Dimensions of the Column: Height
  • 3.4 Dimensions of the Column: Width X Height
  • 3.4.1 Width X Height: Prose texts
  • 3.4.2 Width X Height:Verse texts
  • 3.5 Upper and Lower Margins
  • 3.6 Roll Height
  • 3.7 Roll Length
  • 3.8 Roll Format and Literary Genre
  • 3.9 Editions de luxe
  • 3.10 Private versus Professional Book Production
  • Tables
  • Appendix 1 Papyri Included in the Sample