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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto ; Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
©2004.
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Colección: | Studies in book and print culture.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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