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- catalog abstract ""Lying now under the sand 300 kilometres south of the coastal metropolis of Alexandria, the town of Oxyrhynchus rose to prominence under Egypt's Hellenistic and Roman rulers. The 1895 British-led excavation revealed little in the way of buildings and other cultural artefacts, but instead yielded a huge random mass of everyday papyri, piled thirty feet deep, including private letters and shopping lists, government circulars, and copies of ancient literature." "The surviving bookrolls - the papyrus rolls with literary texts - have provided a great deal of information on ancient books, ancient readers, and ancient reading. Examining only those texts that survive in full form in medieval manuscripts, William Johnson has analysed over 400 bookrolls to understand the production, use, and aesthetics of the ancient book. His close analysis of formal and conventional features of the bookrolls not only provides detailed information on the bookroll industry - manufacture, design, and format - but also suggests some intriguing questions and provisional answers about the ways in which the use and function of the bookroll among ancient readers may differ from modern or medieval practice. This work will be of great importance to all papyrologists, classicists, and literary scholars."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12982672.
- catalog coverage "Bahnasā (Egypt) Antiquities.".
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description ""Lying now under the sand 300 kilometres south of the coastal metropolis of Alexandria, the town of Oxyrhynchus rose to prominence under Egypt's Hellenistic and Roman rulers. The 1895 British-led excavation revealed little in the way of buildings and other cultural artefacts, but instead yielded a huge random mass of everyday papyri, piled thirty feet deep, including private letters and shopping lists, government circulars, and copies of ancient literature."".
- catalog description ""The surviving bookrolls - the papyrus rolls with literary texts - have provided a great deal of information on ancient books, ancient readers, and ancient reading. Examining only those texts that survive in full form in medieval manuscripts, William Johnson has analysed over 400 bookrolls to understand the production, use, and aesthetics of the ancient book. His close analysis of formal and conventional features of the bookrolls not only provides detailed information on the bookroll industry - manufacture, design, and format - but also suggests some intriguing questions and provisional answers about the ways in which the use and function of the bookroll among ancient readers may differ from modern or medieval practice.".
- catalog description "1. Introduction -- 2. Scribes in Oxyrhynchus : scribal habits, paradosis, and the uniformity of the literary roll -- 3. Formal characteristics of the bookroll -- Appendix 1. Papyri included in the sample -- Appendix 2. Addenda and corrigenda to editions in the sample sets -- Appendix 3. Resolution of ambiguous reconstructions.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-355) and indexes.".
- catalog description "This work will be of great importance to all papyrologists, classicists, and literary scholars."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 371 p., [24] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0802037348 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies in book and print culture".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press,".
- catalog spatial "Bahnasā (Egypt) Antiquities.".
- catalog spatial "Egypt Bahnasā.".
- catalog spatial "Greece".
- catalog spatial "Grèce".
- catalog subject "091 22".
- catalog subject "Books and reading Greece History.".
- catalog subject "Books and reading History To 1500.".
- catalog subject "Greek literature Manuscripts.".
- catalog subject "Livres et lecture Grèce Histoire.".
- catalog subject "Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri) Egypt Bahnasā.".
- catalog subject "Oxyrhynchus papyri.".
- catalog subject "PA3315.O83 J68 2004".
- catalog subject "Scribes Egypt Bahnasā.".
- catalog subject "Scriptoria Egypt Bahnasā.".
- catalog subject "Transmission of texts Egypt Bahnasā.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction -- 2. Scribes in Oxyrhynchus : scribal habits, paradosis, and the uniformity of the literary roll -- 3. Formal characteristics of the bookroll -- Appendix 1. Papyri included in the sample -- Appendix 2. Addenda and corrigenda to editions in the sample sets -- Appendix 3. Resolution of ambiguous reconstructions.".
- catalog title "Bookrolls and scribes in Oxyrhynchus / William A. Johnson.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".