Latin texts on papyrus and the study of classics / edited by Maria Chiara Scappaticcio.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Scappaticcio, Maria Chiara, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manuscripts, Latin (Papyri).

Genre:

Essays

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 481 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Summary:

This volume gathers 25 chapters focused on Latin texts on papyrus, exploring them from multi- and cross-disciplinary perspectives. A companion text, it covers many topics - ranging from palaeography and philology to Latin literature, and from ancient law to ancient and medieval history. It brilliantly demonstrates the potential of Latin texts on papyrus to inspire and illuminate the field of Classics.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title page

Title page

Imprints page

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

Preface

Editor's Note

List of Abbreviations

Latin Texts on Papyrus: A Project, Its Corpus, and the Future of Research

The Project, Its Corpus

I The Literary Perspective

II The Documentary Perspective

Part I Philological and Literary Insights

1 The Papyri of Terence and the Latin Grammatical Tradition

1.1 The Papyri and Their Context of Production and Use

1.2 Terence: Ancient Grammatical Education and Culture

1.3 An Ancient Editorial Tradition

1.4 Written Text and Oralisation

1.5 Standard and Standardisation: Use and Authority

2 Latin Gnomic Literature in Light of P.Mich. VII 430 (= CLTP IB.20)

2.1 Overview of Gnomic Literature on Graeco-Roman Papyri

2.2 Latin Gnomic Texts on Papyrus?

2.3 The Michigan Sententiae as a Gnomic Verse Collection

2.4 Latin Gnomic Anthologies in Medieval Transmission

2.5 Conclusions and Outlook

3 Medical or Culinary Recipes?: On the Technical Prose of a First-Century Roll

4 P.Hamb. II 167 Recto: Drama (in Prose?)

5 The Latin Papyri from the Herculaneum Library: New Results and Fresh Perspectives

6 Editing the Carmen De bello Aegyptiaco for CLTP: New Results and Further Perspectives

6.1 Size of the Book-Roll, Size of the Poem

6.2 Textual Issues

6.3 Possible Arrangement of Topics in the Book-Roll

7 Virgilian Centos and Papyri Vergilianae

8 'Varus, Give Me Back My … Money!' Marginal Notes on the Hadrianus

8.1 Discussion of Some Loci Critici

Part II Philological and Linguistic Insights

9 From Roman Egypt to the Renaissance: The Evolution of the Celtis Glossary, Part 1

10 From Roman Egypt to the Renaissance: The Evolution of the Celtis Glossary, Part 2

10.1 Introduction.

10.2 Section Headings in Papyri and the History of Hermeneumata

10.3 The Formative Stages of the Celtis Glossary: the Monolingual Lexicon

10.4 The Celtis Glossary and at Least One Other Classified Glossary

11 Latin in Roman Soldiers' and Veterans' Private Documents: Selected Case Studies

11.1 The Tribal Designation

11.2 Latin in Marriage Agreements

11.3 Latin in Roman Testaments

11.4 Conclusions

12 The Relevance of the Italian Papyri to the Study of Late Latin and the Emergence of the Romance Vernaculars

12.1 The Italian Papyri and the Multicultural City of Ravenna

12.2 The Lexical Wealth of Papyri

12.3 Morphological and Syntactic Analysis: Aims and Methods

12.4 'Carsic' Structures between Early and Late/Medieval Latin

12.5 Non-Classical Case Inflections

12.6 Verb Morphology

12.7 Syntactic Phenomena

13 On the Latin-Arabic Bilingual Papyrus, British Library inv. 3124: The 'Italian' Connection

14 Allography in Latin Ostraca

14.1 Introduction

14.2 Complete Allography

14.3 Partial Allography

14.4 Occasional Allography

14.5 Sociolinguistic Aspects

14.6 Conclusion

15 Latin Ostraca from Tripolitania (Assenamat, Gigthi, Bu Njem): Linguistic Analysis of Palaeo-Amazigh Personal Names and External Implications

15.1 Introduction

15.2 Geolinguistic Context of Latin Ostraca from Tripolitania

15.3 Assenamat

15.4 Gigthi

15.5 Bu Njem

15.6 The Common Name Gura

15.7 Garamantian Agriculture and Trade

15.8 Conclusions

Part III Palaeographic Insights

16 The Latin Papyri and the History of Writing: Their Contribution to the Formation of a Scientific Vocabulary in Palaeography

17 Some Reflections on the Presence of Accents in the Montserrat Cicero, In Catilinam 2.

18 A Survey of Abbreviating (and Punctuation) Signs in Latin Documentary Papyri, Ostraca, and Tablets from Roman Africa and the East: First Century bce to Seventh Century ce

18.1 This Chapter: Purpose and Scope

18.2 The Signs: Typology

18.3 The Signs: Chronology

19 Rethinking the Evidence for Latin Shorthand​ in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Part IV Juridical and Historical Insights

20 Ancient Jurists and Latin Papyri

20.1 The Greek Digest

20.2 Roman Jurists in a Copenhagen Papyrus

21 The Contribution of CLTP to the Study of Roman Justice

22 Julio-Claudian Procedural Reforms and Imperial Constitutions in the Light of BGU II 611 and BGU II 628

22.1 Two Papyri: from the Sammlung Brugsch to the Berliner Griechische Urkunden

22.2 BGU II 611

22.3 BGU II 628 recto

22.4 Contribution to the Study of the Effectiveness of Imperial Constitutions

23 Marcus Aper and the Ala Apriana

23.1 Roman Forces in Egypt

23.2 The Earliest Instances of Cavalry Alae and Turmae in Egypt

23.3 The Commander of the Ala Apriana

23.4 Conclusion

24 Did a Fiscus Barbaricus Ever Exist?: Remarks on P.Ital. 1 (445-6 ce)

24.1 The Issue

24.2 The Documentary Dossier

24.3 The Lands

24.4 A Fiscus Which Was Not Barbaricus

Bibliography

Indices

Index of Ancient Manuscripts

Index of Papyri and Parchments Preserving Documents

Index of Inscriptions and Ostraca.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 6, 2026).

ISBN:

1-009-58661-0

1-009-58662-9

1-009-58663-7