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 |
| Contact: | Marie-Odile Germain |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |