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Hamburg, Bibliothek

Name: Hamburg, Bibliothek
Location: Hamburg
Country: Germany
Address: Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Carl von Ossietzky
Papyrusabteilung
Von-Melle-Park 3
D-20146 Hamburg
Deutschland
Homepage: http://www.sub.uni-hamburg.de/bibliotheken/sammlungen/sondersammlungen/recherche.html
Contact: Dr. Eva Horvath Handschriftenabteilung
E-mail: horvath@sub.uni-hamburg.de
Conservation: Most papyri are kept between glass.
Inventarisation:
Publications: P.Hamb. 01-03

P.dem. Hawara Lüddeckens (2000) contains 15 papyri from Hamburg. They belong to the archive of Hawara undertakers.

M.Salvo, La collezione dei papiri di Amburgo. Nuove prospettive, in:

A.Dietrich, Arabische Papyri aus der Hamburger Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Leipzig 1937 (19 documents on papyrus and 1 on linen); IDEM, Arabische Briefe aus der Papyrussammlung der Hamburger Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Hamburg 1955 (69 letters)
Work: A fourth volume of 38 Greek Hamburg papyri is in preparation by B. Kramer and D. Hagedorn.

A catalogue and publication of the remaining demotic papyri, mostly from the Fayum area, is being prepared by C. La'da, who will also publish the 34 most interesting items; cf. C.A.La’da, Die Demotic Papyrus Collection of the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg, in: K. Ryholt (ed.), Acts of the Seventh Intern. Conference of Demotic Studies, Copenhagen 1999, pp.249-254.
Highlights: P.Hamb. bil. 1 : a bilingual papyrus codex, consisting of 56 pages, with a previously unknown Greek version of the Acta Pauli and fragments of the Old Testament in Fayumic Coptic and in Greek and Coptic [ LDAB 3138 ]

19 libelli of the Decian persecution, from Theadelpheia
History: For a general survey and history of the Hamburg collection, see M. Salvo, La collezione dei papiri di Amburgo. Nuove prospettive, in: I.Andorlini e.a., Atti del XXII Congresso di Papirologia, Firenze 1998, (Firenze 2001), pp.1161-1166.

The collection consists of about 1000 papyri :Greek and Latin (782 papyri inventoried, of which ca. 450 are still unpublished), Demotic 53 papyri), Coptic (16 unpublished papyri) and Arabic (80 papyri, 52 paper documents, 1 parchment and 1 text on linen), and 6 unpublished ostraca.