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Geneva, Bibliothèque

Bibliothèque de Genève (formerly Bibliothèque Publique et Universitaire)
Promenade des Bastions 1
1211 Genève 4
Suisse

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TM number	Collection	Material	Language	Century	Publication

TM 135574	Geneva, Bibliothèque number unknown	papyrus	Hieratic / Hieroglyphic	BC07 - BC06	Totenbuch-Projekt (online) - TM 135574
TM 144446	Geneva, Bibliothèque Genizah Ms. 17	parchment	Greek	AD05 - AD06	Pap. Congr. XXVI (Geneva 2010) p. 781-791
TM 62158	Geneva, Bibliothèque Ms. Gr. 50	wood	Greek	AD06	P. Genève [hors série] 6
TM 128550	Geneva, Bibliothèque Ms. Gr. 56	stone (limestone)	Greek	AD08	P. Gen. 4 154
TM 59329	Geneva, Bibliothèque Ms. Lat. 16 (97)	papyrus / parchment	Latin	AD07 - AD08	Nees, A survey of manuscripts illuminated in France. Frankish manuscripts 2
TM 114824	Geneva, Bibliothèque Ms. Lat. 75	papyrus	Latin	AD06	P. Ital. 2 55
TM 11251	Geneva, Bibliothèque Nicole 1	papyrus	Greek	AD02	P. Gen. 2 103
TM 32141	Geneva, Bibliothèque Nicole 11	papyrus	Greek	AD02 - AD03	P. Gen.(2) 1 2
TM 11243	Geneva, Bibliothèque Nicole 13	papyrus	Greek	AD04	P. Gen.(2) 1 68
TM 129813	Geneva, Bibliothèque Nicole 14	papyrus	Greek	AD06	P. Gen. 4 192
TM 10054	Geneva, Bibliothèque Nicole 14 bis	papyrus	Greek	AD04	P. Abinn. 62
TM 11211	Geneva, Bibliothèque Nicole 15	papyrus	Greek	AD03	P. Gen.(2) 1 1
TM 29453	Geneva, Bibliothèque Nicole 16	papyrus	Greek	AD02	P. Gen.(2) 1 81
TM 11259	Geneva, Bibliothèque Nicole 18	papyrus	Greek	AD03	P. Gen. 2 114
TM 11242	Geneva, Bibliothèque Nicole 19	papyrus	Greek	AD04	P. Gen.(2) 1 67
TM 11232	Geneva, Bibliothèque Nicole 20	papyrus	Greek	AD03	P. Gen.(2) 1 38
TM 11227	Geneva, Bibliothèque Nicole 21	papyrus	Greek	AD02	P. Gen.(2) 1 33
TM 11246	Geneva, Bibliothèque Nicole 22	papyrus	Greek	AD04	P. Gen.(2) 1 70
TM 29470	Geneva, Bibliothèque Nicole 24	papyrus	Greek	AD02	P. Gen. 4 163
TM 11238	Geneva, Bibliothèque Nicole 25	papyrus	Greek	AD03	P. Gen.(2) 1 44
TM 11247	Geneva, Bibliothèque Nicole 28	papyrus	Greek	AD03	P. Gen.(2) 1 77
TM 11212	Geneva, Bibliothèque Nicole 3	papyrus	Greek	AD04	P. Gen.(2) 1 12
TM 11228	Geneva, Bibliothèque Nicole 30	papyrus	Greek	AD02	P. Gen.(2) 1 34
TM 78706	Geneva, Bibliothèque Nicole 33	papyrus	Greek	BC02	P. Paramone 10
TM 29451	Geneva, Bibliothèque Nicole 35	papyrus	Greek	AD03	P. Gen.(2) 1 73
TM 29452	Geneva, Bibliothèque Nicole 36	papyrus	Greek	AD03	P. Gen.(2) 1 78
TM 32142	Geneva, Bibliothèque Nicole 37	papyrus	Greek	AD03	P. Gen.(2) 1 71
TM 11235	Geneva, Bibliothèque Nicole 41	papyrus	Greek	AD03	P. Gen.(2) 1 41
TM 32143	Geneva, Bibliothèque Nicole 49 Vo	papyrus	Greek	AD03	P. Gen.(2) 1 72
TM 11236	Geneva, Bibliothèque Nicole 50	papyrus	Greek	AD03	P. Gen.(2) 1 42
TM 11241	Geneva, Bibliothèque Nicole 51	papyrus	Greek	AD04	P. Gen.(2) 1 66
TM 11256	Geneva, Bibliothèque Nicole 54	papyrus	Greek	AD02	P. Gen. 2 110
TM 901268	Geneva, Bibliothèque Nicole 54 (old)	papyrus	Greek	AD02	Archiv für Papyrusforschung (AfP) 3.2 (1904), p. 225-226 descr.
TM 11221	Geneva, Bibliothèque Nicole 56	papyrus	Greek	AD02	P. Gen.(2) 1 26
TM 17385	Geneva, Bibliothèque Nicole 57	papyrus	Greek	AD02	P. Gen. 2 98
TM 11227	Geneva, Bibliothèque Nicole 6	papyrus	Greek	AD02	P. Gen.(2) 1 33
TM 11233	Geneva, Bibliothèque Nicole 63	papyrus	Greek	AD03	P. Gen.(2) 1 39
TM 60463	Geneva, Bibliothèque Nicole 72 Ro	papyrus	Greek	AD02	Revue de philologie, de littérature et d'histoire anciennes. 2e série 17 (1893), p. 109-115
TM 133455	Geneva, Bibliothèque Nicole 72 Vo	papyrus	Greek	AD03	Schubert, Philadelphie, un village égyptien p. 140-142
TM 11244	Geneva, Bibliothèque Nicole 8	papyrus	Greek	AD04	P. Gen.(2) 1 69
TM 32145	Geneva, Bibliothèque Nicole 9	papyrus	Greek	AD03	P. Gen.(2) 1 75
TM 754274	Geneva, Bibliothèque O. Nagel 12	pottery	Coptic	AD07	Aegyptus 79 (1999), p. 102-104
TM 67829	Geneva, Bibliothèque O. Nagel 8	stone (limestone)	Greek	AD06 - AD07	Aegyptus 79 (1999), p. 93-101 no. 1
TM 13822	Geneva, Bibliothèque P. Gr. number unknown	papyrus	Greek	AD02	PSI 8 961 a
TM 13823	Geneva, Bibliothèque P. Gr. number unknown	papyrus	Greek	AD02	PSI 8 961 b
TM 132	Geneva, Bibliothèque P. Gr. 1	papyrus	Greek	BC02	P. Gen.(2) 1 20
TM 11214	Geneva, Bibliothèque P. Gr. 10	papyrus	Greek	AD03	P. Gen.(2) 1 16
TM 63069	Geneva, Bibliothèque P. Gr. 100	papyrus	Greek	AD01	Hermes 28 (1893), p. 161-193
TM 11219	Geneva, Bibliothèque P. Gr. 101	papyrus	Greek	AD01	P. Gen.(2) 1 24
TM 18272	Geneva, Bibliothèque P. Gr. 102	papyrus	Greek	AD01	ZPE 159 (2007), p. 264-266

Numbering

[20.11.06]
- without prefix, number m. I 16 (97)
- MS Gr., number 50 [tablet]
- Nicole, numbers from 1 till 72
- O. Nagel, number 8
- P. Gr., numbers from 1 till 936
- P. Lat., numbers from 1 till 8
- Parchm. Kasser
- T, number 269

Conservation

Inventarisation

Group 1-3 has been catalogued systematically by Claude Wehrli in 1973; this catalogue can be consulted in the library. Group 4 has been inventorised in a FileMaker document in 1989, but this file is not accessible to the public. For Group 5 there is no catalogue.

Publications

More than 250 Texts (on a total of 551) have been published, 53 literary and 176 documentary texts.

P.Genève, I-IV and publications in many scientific journals. Most of the literary texts in the collection have been published now. Alle requests for the publication of the unpublished papyri are welcome, except if they are already promised to another scholar.

Work

P.Genève I is republished in 2002 by P. Schubert and I. Jornot in a corrected second edition

Highlights

texts from the archive of Abinnaeus

- Menandros, Georgus, 1-98 ( LDAB 2718 )

- Homeric hymn to Dionysos (A. Hurst, Proc. of the 20th Int. Congr. of Pap., Copenhagen 1994, pp.317-321) ( LDAB 2357 )

- a commentary on Ilias 20, 144-150 (A. Trachsel - Paul Schubert, "Une description de la topographie de Troie dans un papyrus de Genève (Pack 21204): réédition", MH 56 (1999) 222-237) ( LDAB 1586 )

History

1. 304 Papyri bought by Édouard Naville for Jules Nicole starting from 1893 (cf. introduction to P.Gen. I, p. 1 and Victor Martin, La collection de papyrus grecs de la Bibliothèque publique et universitaire et ses fondateurs, Jules Nicole et Édouard Naville (Genève 1940))

2. 40 Papyri bought in 1921 in collaboration with the British Museum

3. 12 Papyri bought in Cairo by Victor Martin

4. 71 Papyri bought in 1989 from two Ptolemaic cartonnages

5. several Greek ostraca (one Coptic) from the collection of Jéquier

5. 72 Papyri from the former private collection of Jules Nicole (bought in its entirety by Nicole in 1892)

6. 27 Fragments without a number and 5 unidentified texts

This gives a total of 531 (fragments of) papyri (containing some 551 'texts').

Language: 532 Greek, 10 Latin (with bilinguals), 8 Demotic, 3 Coptic texts

Date: some 461 texts can be dated from the 3th century BC till the 7th century ADPlace of origin: for half of the texts the place of origin is not known; one fourth comes from the Arsinoites, mainly Soknopaiou Nesos and Philadelpheia.

Genre: 68 literary , 476 documentary and 7 unidentified papyri