Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale

Name:	Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale
Location:	Paris
Country:	France
Address:	Bibliothèque Nationale de France Département des manuscrits 58, rue Richelieu F-75002 Paris France
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Contact:	Marie-Odile Germain
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Numbering:	[13.10.06] - without prefix, number Y.21.406 - without prefix, numbers from 1 till 22691 - Baluze, number 270 - BnF Arm., number 332 - Cabinet des Médailles, numbers from 1099 till 1896 - Coislinianus, numbers from 1 till 186 - Copte, number III 33 and numbers from 129 till 156 - Dpg., number 9 - Lat., numbers from 152 till 18315 - Ms. Gr., numbers from 9 till 2179 - Nouv. Acq. Lat., numbers from 203 till 2479 - Suppl. grec, numbers from 574 till 1324 - Suppl. lat., numbers from 693 till 1895
Conservation:
Inventarisation:	There is an inventory in the Catalogue des Manuscrits Grecs de la Bibliothèqe Nationale, Troisième Partie, Le supplément Grec, t. III, nos 901-1371, par Ch. ASTRUC et M. L. CONCASTY, Paris, 1960
Publications:	The mummy labels, both Greek and demotic, have been published by M. Chauveau and H. Cuvigny in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 130 (2000), pp.183-191
Work:
Highlights:	BnF Arm 332 : Greek papyrus in Armenian characters, dating 5th-7th centuries AD, and containing Hermeneumata (school exercises) is the oldest known manuscript for Armenian; published by J. Clackson, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 129 (2000), pp.223-258 ( LDAB 7316 ) P.Bibl. Nat. 215 contains the so-called Demotic Chronicle, a cryptic ancient Egyptian oracle text, predicting the fall of native pharaohs, the arrival of the Persians and the Greeks, with a commentary written in the Ptolemaic period; published by W. Spiegelberg, Die sogenannte demotische Chronik, Leipzig 1914
History:	P.Achmîm A small collection of mummy labels was presented by Seymour de Ricci; they are now in the Cabinet des Médailles