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TM 62776 / LDAB 3964 Record to be adopted by: you?

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also known as Mertens-Pack 02339.000; Anonymus Londinensis; Anonymus Londiniensis

Metadata

Date: second half 1st century AD: AD 50 - 99

Provenance: Hermopolites ? - Egypt (15th Upper Egyptian nomeThe Egyptian nome ca. 3rd cent. BC - AegyptusThe Roman provincia ca. 2nd cent. AD) [found]
bought in 1889
Hermopolis (El-Ashmunein) ? - Egypt (15th Upper Egyptian nomeThe Egyptian nome ca. 3rd cent. BC - AegyptusThe Roman provincia ca. 2nd cent. AD) [written]

Language/script: Greek (paleography: semi-cursive hand)

Material: papyrus

Completely preserved

Book form: roll; number of lines per page: 44-59

Content (beta!): medical treatise; verso: medical recipe

Authors / works: Plato, Timaeus: 42e-43a, 73b-c2, 84c9-d2 (quoted)
Hippocrates, De flatibus (?): 3.1, 7.1 (quoted)
Hippocrates, De morbis muliebribus (?): 1 2 (quoted)
Aristoteles, Opus incertum (?) (quoted)
Erasistratus, Opus incertum (?) (quoted)
Herophilus, Opus incertum (?) (quoted)
Anonymus Londinensis, De medicina (?) (direct attestation)

Culture & genre: literature, science — prose: medicine, iatromancy (religion: classical)

Recto/Verso: Ro/Vo, back: continuation

Reuse type: other text(s) on the same object: TM 29409

Note: autograph

More info: BLBritish Library Digitized Manuscripts => 1417 links in TM, DCLPDigital Corpus of Literary Papyri => 14624 links in TM, MP3Mertens-Pack 3 => 7426 links in TM

Publications

Manetti, Anonymus Londinensis. De medicina. Editio altera (Teubner) (Manetti, Daniela - 2022) [default]

∙Ricciardetto, L'Anonyme de Londres. Un papyrus médical grec du 1e siècle après J.-C. (Budé edition) (Ricciardetto, Antonio - 2016)

∙Ricciardetto, L'Anonyme de Londres (Papyrologica Leodiensia 4) (Ricciardetto, Antonio - 2014)

∙Manetti, Anonymus Londinensis. De medicina (Teubner) (Manetti, Daniela - 2011)

∙Galenos. Rivista di filologia dei testi medici antichi 4 (2010), p. 39-45 [Vo] (Andorlini Marcone, Isabella - 2010)

∙Corpus dei papiri filosofici (CPF) 1.1.3.2 80 p. 528-578 [Plato 129T] (Manetti, Daniela - 1999)

∙Andorlini (ed.), Specimina per il Corpus dei papiri greci di medicina. Atti del' incontro di studio p. 141-152 (Jones, William H. S. - 1997)

∙Jones, The medical writings of the Anonymus Londinensis (Jones, William H. S. - 1947)

∙P. Lond. Lit. 165 (Milne, H. J. M. - 1927) link courtesy Loreleï Vanderheyden and Jean-Luc Fournet

∙Anonymi Londinensis ex Aristotelis iatriciis Menoniis et aliis medicis eclogae (Diels, Hermann - 1893)

∙Marganne, Inventaire analytique des papyrus grecs de médecine 102 descr. (Marganne-Mélard, Marie-Hélène - 1981) (= catalogue only)

Photo: ed. princ.; CPF IV.2, pl.57-62 and 2008, pl. 44-45; Riccciardetto, L'anonyme de Londres (11 pl.)

Content studies: Corpus dei papiri filosofici (CPF) 1.1** Hippo 1 T, p. 455-461; CPF 1.1*** Plato 129 T, 100 Stoici 3 T; CPF 2.1* 32 T (p. 209-225); Der Neue Pauly I (1996), coll.718-719; D. Manetti, Trends in Classics 5 (2013), p. 159-178; T. Dorandi, Omaggio Bastianini (2016), p. 199-205; Crespo Saumell, Jordi, BASP 55 (2018), p. 129-156

Script & book studies: date according to D. Manetti, Specimina, p. 141-152; L. Del Corso, in : Oltre la scrittura. Dossiers byzantins 8 (2008), p.43; provenance: A. Martin, ZPE 139 (2002), p. 22-26 (n. 11)

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