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Each sheet is ruled with a hard point horizontally and vertically in the usual way, the rulings being carried across the entire sheet.<\/p>

1 column, usually 29 ruled lines , but ranging from 28 to 34.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Date of Creation", "value": "3rd-4th century CE" }, { "label": "Origin", "value": "3rd-4th century CE. Discovery site: Egypt." }, { "label": "Collation", "value": "The sheets are usually arranged so that the recto (flesh-side) and verso (hair-side) are uppermost alternately, the recto of one leaf facing the recto of the next." }, { "label": "Script", "value": "

The text is written in a slightly sloping medium-sized uncial hand, in brown ink. The corrector generally employed a black ink, so that his additions are easily distinguished.<\/div><\/div>" }, { "label": "Data Source(s)", "value": "Description based on Arthur S. Hunt, Catalogue of the Greek Papyri in the John Rylands Library, Manchester, Volume I, Literary Texts<\/i> (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1911)." }, { "label": "Language(s)", "value": "Greek" }, { "label": "Physical Location", "value": "The John Rylands Library" }, { "label": "Extent", "value": "Fragment: remains of folios 1-30 and 52-101. Leaf height: 168 mm, width: 130 mm." }, { "label": "Classmark", "value": "Greek P 53" }, { "label": "Subject(s)", "value": "Classical literature; Mythology, Greek" }, { "label": "Author(s) of the Record", "value": "Carly Richardson, Elizabeth Gow" }, { "label": "Abstract", "value": "

Damaged remains of a codex, written on vellum, which once contained the entire 'Odyssey'. The surviving fragments are from books twelve to fifteen and eighteen to twenty four (only a few are shown here). The manuscript is among the earliest examples of vellum books to have survived and preserves an important and interesting version of the text. <\/p>" }, { "label": "Bibliography", "value": "

Trismegistos: an interdisciplinary portal of papyrological and epigraphical resources, no. 660947.<\/i><\/a><\/div>
PDFs of Published Catalogues of Greek Papyri in the John Rylands Library, 1911-1979.<\/a><\/div>
Mertens-Pack database<\/i>, no. 01106.000.<\/a><\/div>
Arthur S. Hunt, Catalogue of the Greek Papyri in the John Rylands Library, Manchester, Volume I, Literary Texts (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1911). Link to the catalogue on archive.org.<\/a><\/div>
Thomas W. Allen, D. H. Sutton, Martin Litchfield West, Odyssea (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017).<\/div><\/div>
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The original compass of the codex is clear from the occurrence in the top left-hand corner of folio 79 recto, the first page of a quire, of the number κδ (cf. folio 87 recto κε), showing that twenty-three gatherings had already preceded. The gatherings are quaternions and the number of lines on a page ranges from 28 (30 commonly in the earlier remaining portions) to 34. If 29 lines be taken as the average, the resulting total up to folio 79 is approximately that of the lines contained in the twenty-one preceding books. There is no foliation of individual leaves, but with the assistance of the quire-mark κδ their number can be deduced as 207.<\/p><\/p>" }, { "label": "Format", "value": "Codex" }, { "label": "Material(s)", "value": "Parchment" }, { "label": "Associated Person(s)", "value": "Hunt, Arthur Surridge (1871-1934); Grenfell, Bernard Pyne (1869-1926); Lindsay, James Ludovic (1847-1913); Rylands, Enriqueta Augustina (1843-1908)" }, { "label": "Provenance", "value": "Acquired by Arthur S. Hunt (1871-1934) and Bernard P. Grenfell (1869-1926) for James Ludovic Lindsay (b. 1847, d. 1913), 26th Earl of Crawford in the winter of 1899. Purchased from Crawford in 1901 by Enriqueta Augustina Rylands (1843-1908) as part of the Crawford manuscript collection." }, { "label": "Date of Acquisition", "value": "1908" }, { "label": "Author(s)", "value": "Homer" } ], "@type": "sc:Manifest", "attribution": "Provided by The University of Manchester.

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