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Princeton Papyri Collections
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Papyri are in all the languages and scripts of Egypt, dating from the Pharaonic, Ptolemaic, Roman, Byzantine, and Islamic periods.
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Manuscripts
There are some 1,250 literary, sub-literary, Christian, and documentary papyri in the Manuscripts Division. Papyri are in all the languages and scripts of Egypt, dating from the Pharaonic, Ptolemaic, Roman, Byzantine, and Islamic periods. For a full, up-to-date inventory of Princeton papyri, providing a history of the collections, as well as selected digital images of papyri, go to the "Princeton University Library Papyrus Home Page". For printed editions of 191 Princeton papyri, see Alan Chester Johnson and Henry Bartlett Van Hoesen, eds., Papyri in the Princeton University Collections (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1931), 1 vol.; and Allen Chester Johnson and Sidney Pullman Goodrich, eds., Papyri in the Princeton University Collections (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1936-42), 2 vols.
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APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) Project
Princeton's collections of papyri are housed in the Manuscripts Division of the Department of Special Collections in the Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library. This home page, including a DESCRIPTIVE INVENTORY and DIGITAL IMAGES OF SELECTED PRINCETON PAPYRI, is presented as part of the APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System) Project, which was made possible through grant support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.