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| TM number | Collection | Material | Language | Century | Publication |
|---|
| TM 870196 | London, British Library LXXXVII | papyrus | Arabic | AD08 | CPR 3.1.2 124 |
| TM 23518 | London, British Library number unknown | papyrus | Greek | AD01 | Chrest. Mitt. 68 |
| TM 113129 | London, British Library number unknown | papyrus | Greek | BC02 | Prosopographia Ptolemaica VIII (Stud. Hell. 21) p. 67 no. 684 a descr. |
| TM 463880 | London, British Library P. Joad II [protokollon] | papyrus | Arabic / Greek | AD08 | CPR 3.1.2 16 |
| TM 86380 | London, British Library 1079 (sic) | papyrus | Coptic (Sahidic dialect) / Greek | AD07 | SB 22 15711 + P. Lond. Copt. 1 1079 |
| TM 19931 | London, British Library 1451 d | papyrus | Coptic / Greek | AD08 | P. Lond. 4 1540 |
| TM 983798 | London, British Library 1451 d [protokollon] | papyrus | Arabic / Greek | AD08 | CPR 3.1.2 12 |
| TM 832138 | London, British Library 1580 b | papyrus | Greek | AD02 - AD03 | Archiv für Papyrusforschung (AfP) 65 (2019), p. 45-51 |
| TM 170012 | London, British Library 2229 | papyrus | Greek | AD06 - AD07 | P. Pintaudi 19 |
| TM 702957 | London, British Library 2293 | papyrus | Greek | AD02 | Omaggio a Guido Bastianini (Pap. Flor. 45) 1 |
| TM 942980 | London, British Library 2564 | papyrus | Greek / Latin | AD07 | Corpus of Latin Texts on Papyrus (CLTP) [P. Lond. inv. 2564] (forthcoming) |
| TM 62938 | London, British Library 2585 | papyrus | Latin | AD03 | ZPE 205 (2018), p. 228-246 |
| TM 130715 | London, British Library 2952 Vo | papyrus | Greek | BC03 | P. Hibeh 2 179 Vo |
| TM 989580 | London, British Library 3070 a | papyrus | Greek | AD07 | Chronique d‘Égypte (CdE) 98 (2023), p. 317-319 |
| TM 983798 | London, British Library 6230 (47) [protokollon] | papyrus | Arabic / Greek | AD08 | CPR 3.1.2 12 |
| TM 66346 | London, British Library 89000 | parchment | Latin | AD07 - AD08 | Brown, The Stonyhurst gospel of Saint John |
| TM 66267 | London, British Library Add MS 11878 | parchment | Latin | AD07 - AD08 | Lowe, CLA 2 163 |
| TM 115474 | London, British Library Add MS 12133 (fol. 1-108) | parchment | Syriac | AD08 | Wright, Catalogue of Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum 1 9 (p. 7-8) |
| TM 115509 | London, British Library Add MS 12133 (fol. 109-169) | parchment | Syriac | AD08 | Wright, Catalogue of Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum 1 51 (p. 31-32) |
| TM 115316 | London, British Library Add MS 12134 | parchment | Greek / Syriac | AD07 | Wright, Catalogue of Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum 1 49 (p. 29-31) |
| TM 115501 | London, British Library Add MS 12135 (fol. 1-43) | parchment | Syriac | AD08 | Wright, Catalogue of Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum 1 40 (p. 24-26) |
| TM 115355 | London, British Library Add MS 12135 (fol. 44-207) | parchment | Syriac | AD07 | Wright, Catalogue of Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum 2 613 (p. 486-487) |
| TM 115500 | London, British Library Add MS 12136 | parchment | Syriac | AD07 | Wright, Catalogue of Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum 1 39 (p. 24) |
| TM 116006 | London, British Library Add MS 12137 (fol. 178-179, 186) | parchment | Syriac | AD06 | Wright, Catalogue of Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum 1 75 II (p. 50-52) |
| TM 116007 | London, British Library Add MS 12137 (fol. 187-207) | parchment | Syriac | AD06 | Wright, Catalogue of Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum 1 75 III (p. 50-52) + Wright, Catalogue of Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum 1 89 III (p. 63) |
| TM 116005 | London, British Library Add MS 12137 (fol. 2-177) | parchment | Syriac | AD06 - AD07 | Wright, Catalogue of Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum 1 75 I (p. 50-52) |
| TM 116008 | London, British Library Add MS 12137 (fol. 212-213) | parchment | Syriac | AD08 | Wright, Catalogue of Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum 1 75 IV (p. 50-52) + Wright, Catalogue of Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum 1 89 II (p. 63) |
| TM 116003 | London, British Library Add MS 12140 | parchment | Syriac | AD06 | Wright, Catalogue of Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum 1 73 (p. 49) |
| TM 116015 | London, British Library Add MS 12141 (fol. 1-87) | parchment | Syriac | AD06 - AD07 | Wright, Catalogue of Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum 1 89 I (p. 63-64) |
| TM 116008 | London, British Library Add MS 12141 (fol. 88, 94) | parchment | Syriac | AD08 | Wright, Catalogue of Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum 1 75 IV (p. 50-52) + Wright, Catalogue of Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum 1 89 II (p. 63) |
| TM 116007 | London, British Library Add MS 12141 (fol. 95-144, 146-148) | parchment | Syriac | AD06 | Wright, Catalogue of Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum 1 75 III (p. 50-52) + Wright, Catalogue of Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum 1 89 III (p. 63) |
| TM 116046 | London, British Library Add MS 12142 (fol. 1-73) | parchment | Syriac | AD06 | Wright, Catalogue of Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum 1 154 (p. 97-98) |
| TM 115331 | London, British Library Add MS 12142 (fol. 108-242) | parchment | Syriac | AD06 | Wright, Catalogue of Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum 2 582 (p. 465-466) |
| TM 116089 | London, British Library Add MS 12142 (fol. 74-107) | parchment | Syriac | AD06 | Wright, Catalogue of Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum 3 944 (p. 1092-1093) |
| TM 115235 | London, British Library Add MS 12150 | parchment | Syriac | AD05 | Wright, Catalogue of Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum 2 726 (p. 631-633) + Brock / Van Rompay, Catalogue of the Syriac manuscripts in Deir Al-Surian (OLA 227) p. 389-392 [Fr. DS 27] |
| TM 115227 | London, British Library Add MS 12155 | parchment | Syriac | AD08 | Wright, Catalogue of Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum 2 857 (p. 921-955) + Oriens christianus N.S. 96 (2012), p. 1-7 [Epiphanius] |
| TM 115407 | London, British Library Add MS 12156 | parchment | Syriac | AD06 | Wright, Catalogue of Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum 2 729 (p. 639-648) |
| TM 115395 | London, British Library Add MS 12157 | parchment | Syriac | AD07 - AD08 | Wright, Catalogue of Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum 2 688 (p. 550-554) |
| TM 115397 | London, British Library Add MS 12158 | parchment | Syriac | AD06 | Wright, Catalogue of Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum 2 690 (p. 555-557) |
| TM 115339 | London, British Library Add MS 12160 (fol. 1-108) | parchment | Syriac | AD06 | Wright, Catalogue of Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum 2 590 (p. 472-473) |
| TM 116087 | London, British Library Add MS 12160 (fol. 109-185) | parchment | Syriac | AD06 - AD07 | Wright, Catalogue of Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum 3 942 (p. 1090-1091) |
| TM 115336 | London, British Library Add MS 12161 | parchment | Syriac | AD06 - AD07 | Wright, Catalogue of Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum 2 587 (p. 469-470) |
| TM 115390 | London, British Library Add MS 12163 (fol. 1-126) | parchment | Syriac | AD06 | Wright, Catalogue of Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum 2 677 (p. 529-530) |
| TM 220460 | London, British Library Add MS 12163 (fol. 305-311) | parchment | Syriac | AD07 | Wright, Catalogue of Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum 2 566 (p. 445) |
| TM 115389 | London, British Library Add MS 12164 | parchment | Syriac | AD06 | Wright, Catalogue of Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum 2 676 (p. 527-529) |
| TM 115415 | London, British Library Add MS 12166 (fol. 1-154) | parchment | Syriac | AD06 | Wright, Catalogue of Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum 2 742 (p. 674-676) |
| TM 115362 | London, British Library Add MS 12166 (fol. 155-258) | parchment | Syriac | AD06 | Wright, Catalogue of Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum 2 620 (p. 491-492) |
| TM 115414 | London, British Library Add MS 12169 (fol. 179-218) | parchment | Syriac | AD06 | Wright, Catalogue of Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum 2 741 (p. 673-674) |
| TM 115255 | London, British Library Add MS 12170 [M 774] | parchment | Syriac | AD07 | Draguet, Les cinq récensions de l'Ascéticon syriaque d'Abba-Isaïe (CSCO 289. Scriptores Syri 120) ms. A (p. 11*) + Orientalia Christiana Periodica 80 (2014), p. 329-366 |
| TM 115480 | London, British Library Add MS 12172 (fol. 197-234) | parchment | Syriac | AD06 - AD07 | Wright, Catalogue of Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum 1 18 (p. 12-13) |
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[partly based upon the BL website]
- without prefix, numbers from 120 till 29527 [parchment, stone, metal, wood] [check]
- Add MS [= Additional manuscript], numbers from 4101 till (at least) 56920
- Arundel MS, numbers from 1 till 550
- Bankes Leaf, Loan MS, number 81
- Burney MS, numers from 1 till 524
- Cotton MS, numbers from Julius till Faustina
- Dept. of Medieval and Later Antiquities, number 192012-14
- EEF [= Egypt Exploration Fund], numbers from 2 till 337
- Egerton MS, numbers from 1 till (at least) 2831
- Egerton Pap, numbers from 2 till 5
- Harley MS, numbers from 1 till 7660
- Inscr., number 388 [check]
- O [= Ostracon], numbers from 4587 till 55805
- Or [sc. kept in the 'Asia, Pacific and Africa collections', mainly Coptic texts], numbers from 72 till 27432
- Or Add, number 17136
- Pap [= Papyrus], numbers from 1 till 3117
- Pap Aram, number 106
- Royal MS, numbers from 1.A.I till 20.E.X
- Sloane MS, numbers from 1 till 4100
Most papyri are kept between glass frames; some of the small fragments are apparently still in folders (see next item).
Most texts are inventoried, but there are hundreds of small scraps still waiting for final inventarisation; cf. T.S. Pattie, A little-known collection of papyri in the British Library, Proceedings of the 18th Intern. Congress of Papyrology, Athens 1988, pp.147-150. Through the Manuscripts Online Catalogue (http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/manuscripts/INDX0095.ASP?Type=D) one can search most of the previously published catalogues, including the Catalogues of Additions, which included brief descriptions and index entries for all papyri collected and incorporated up to 1955. A microfilm of the Greek papyri 1 - 1200 is available from the British Library.
P.Lond. I-VII; a list of Greek papyri from the British Library published outside this series, see N. Kruit - K.A. Worp, JJP 25 (1995), pp.49-66.
- Athenaion Politeia, written on the back of a documentary roll ( LDAB 391 )
- P.Edgerton 2 (fragment of an unknown apocryphal gospel, partly in the British Library, partly in Köln - LDAB 4376 ): see http://purl.org:WILLKER/Egerton/Egerton-home.html and http://alf.zfn.uni-bremen.de/~wie/Egerton/egerton-intro.html
The first important purchase of the (then) British Museum was that of Aristoteles' Athenaion Politeia, Herondas' Mimes and the Victory Odes by Bacchylides in 1889/1890. The excavations of Grenfell and Hunt in the Fayum, Oxyrhynchus and El-Hibeh were organised by the Egypt Exploration Fund; through subscription, the British Museum acquired a large group of papyri between 1895 and 1923. In the 1920's the Museum purchased part of the Zenon archive, published by T.C.Skeat as P. Lond. VII. Later acquisitions have not been so spectacular, but they continue steadily. As a result of the British Library Act 1972, Coptic papyri in the British Museum became the property of The British Library Board, whereas Coptic (and some Greek) ostraca are still kept in the Ancient Egypt and Sudan Department of the British Museum.
