Unending variety : papyrological texts and studies in honour of Peter van Minnen (P.L. Bat. 42) / edited by Andrew J. Connor, Jitse H.F. Dijkstra, Francisca A.J. Hoogendijk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

William Alexander Lamberton Fund.

Minnen, P. van, honouree.

Connor, Andrew, editor.

Dijkstra, Jitse H. F., editor.

Hoogendijk, F. A. J., editor.

Series:

Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava ; 0169-9652 v. 42.

Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava, 0169-9652 ; volumen XLII

Language:

Coptic

Egyptian

English

French

German

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Italian

Subjects (All):

Manuscripts (Papyri).

Ostraka.

ostraka.

Genre:

Festschriften

Physical Description:

xxviii, 232 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), genealogical table, map, plans ; 30 cm.

Other Title:

P.Van Minnen

Pap.Lugd.Bat. 42

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, [2024]

Language Note:

Twenty contributions in English, four in French, four in German, two in Italian; some Greek, Coptic and Demotic.

Summary:

"This is a Festschrift offered by friends and colleagues to papyrologist and ancient historian Peter van Minnen. The volume contains the edition or re-edition of 52 papyri and ostraca, dating from between the third century BCE and the eighth century CE. Their subjects vary from Demosthenes to the delivery of camels in early Islamic Egypt, and their provenances stretch from the Eastern to the Western Desert, and from the Egyptian Nile valley to Qasr Ibrim in northern Nubia. All texts are published with transcription, translation, commentary and colour photographs. In addition, there are five studies, reflecting the honorand's wide-ranging interests."-- Page 4 of cover.

"This is a Festschrift offered by friends and colleagues to papyrologist and ancient historian Peter van Minnen. The volume contains the edition or re-edition of 52 papyri and ostraca, dating from between the third century BCE and the eighth century CE. Their subjects vary from Demosthenes to the delivery of camels in early Islamic Egypt, and their provenances stretch from the Eastern to the Western Desert, and from the Egyptian Nile valley to Qasr Ibrim in northern Nubia. All texts are published with transcription, translation, commentary and colour photographs. In addition, there are five studies, reflecting the honorand's wide-ranging interests" -- Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

Ptolemaic Surety Documents in the Ashmolean Museum / Marie-Pierre Chaufray and Willy Clarysse

Fragment of a Medical Treatise with Discussion of Eye Disorders / Timothy Renner

Two Documents Concerning Grain Deliveries from Qasr Ibrim / Tomasz Derda, Adam Łajtar, and Tomasz Płóciennik

Seven Greek Ostraca from Soknopaiou Nesos / Natascia Pellé

List of Individuals with Scar Descriptions / Andrew J. Connor

Lettre d'un chasseur trouvée à Berkou (désert Oriental) / Hélène Cuvigny

Conclusion of a Letter / Arthur Verhoogt

The Return of the Boukoloi / [dagger] Traianos Gagos and Nikos Litinas

A Private Letter from the Beinecke Library / Acacia Chan and Ann Ellis Hanson

A Philosophical Papyrus from Soknopaiou Nesos / Mario Capasso

Aufstellung von Zahlungen in Gerste für Löhne und Mieten auf einem Weingut / Fabian Reiter

Three Official Documents in a Tomos Synkollesimos / Francisca A.J. Hoogendijk

Lieferungskauf von Weinamphoren aus einer Töpferei / Thomas Kruse

An 'Asiatic' Slave Sold in Hermopolis / Amin Benaissa

A Register of Land with Numbered Koitai from Hermopolis / Athanassios Vergados

Papyri from Umm el-Dabadib (Kharga Oasis) / Corinna Rossi, Alain Delattre, and Roger S. Bagnall

Three Literary Papyri from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Expedition to the Kharga Oasis / C. Michael Sampson

Three Late Antique Documents / Todd M. Hickey, James G. Keenan, and Michael Zellmann-Rohrer

List of Geographical Names from the Late Antique Herakleopolite Nom / Csaba A. La'da and Amphilochios Papathomas

Deux documents de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres / Jean Gascou

Une nouvelle paire de brouillons d'un rescrit impérial / Jean-Luc Fournet

Die Brüder Iosephis und Soïs: Neue Texte aus dem Dossier zweie Landwirte aus dem spätantiken Hermupolis / Fritz Mitthof

Sale of Part of a House / Nikolaos Gonis

Atias ritrovato, Atias perduto: un conto del periodo arabo senza ʿAṭiyya ibn Ğuʿaid (cpr VIII 72) / Federico Morelli

Two Coptic Orders for Delivery / Jitse H.F. Dijkstra

Agency, Intention, and Frustration in Demotic Narrative / John Tait

Zu einer wenig beachteten Neulesung Hans Gerstingers in der 'Klage der Artemisia' (P. Vindob. G 1) / Thomas Backhuys

Dentro e dietro le righe nei papiri di Gemello / Giuseppina Azzarello

The Archive after Dioscorus: The Dates of the Receipts in P. Cair.Masp. III 67325 and P. Flor. III 298 + P. Stras. VII 699 / Sofie Remijsen

Sainte Thècle dans la Maréotide / Ewa Wipszycka.

Notes:

"Bibliography of Peter van Minnen (up to 2022)": pages xvii-xxiii.

Includes bibliographical references (pages xxvii-xxviii) and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the William Alexander Lamberton Fund.

Cited in:

Checklist of Editions of Greek, Latin, Demotic, and Coptic Papyri, Ostraca, and Tablets ; P.Van Minnen (Pap.Lugd.Bat. 42)

Other Format:

e-book version

ISBN:

9789004680272

9004680276

OCLC:

1424857994

Publisher Number:

9789004680272