Housed in a wooden frame covered with glass on both sides.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Acquisition", "value": "
Purchased by Enriqueta Rylands in 1901 from James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford. Bequeathed by Rylands to the John Rylands Library in 1908.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Title", "value": "Grant of land ('The Ravenna Papyrus')" }, { "label": "Layout", "value": "
Single column, 90 lines. Not ruled.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Funding", "value": "" }, { "label": "Date of Creation", "value": "600" }, { "label": "Origin Place", "value": "Italy" }, { "label": "Origin", "value": "
Italy, 600<\/p>" }, { "label": "Script", "value": "
Lines 1-27 written in Roman cursive<\/i>.<\/p><\/div> Lines 28-37 written in Roman cursive<\/i>.<\/p><\/div> Lines 38-49 written in Greek cursive<\/i>.<\/p><\/div> Lines 50-59 written in Roman cursive<\/i>.<\/p><\/div> Lines 60-70 written in Roman cursive<\/i>.<\/p><\/div> Lines 71-80 written in Roman cursive<\/i>.<\/p><\/div> Lines 81-90 written in Roman cursive<\/i>.<\/p><\/div><\/div>"
},
{
"label": "Data Source(s)",
"value": "Description based on M.R. James, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Latin Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library at Manchester<\/i> (Manchester, 1921), reprinted with an introduction and additional notes and corrections by F. Taylor (München, 1980), revised and expanded by Joanne Edge."
},
{
"label": "Language(s)",
"value": "Latin; Latin, with one section in Greek."
},
{
"label": "Physical Location",
"value": "The John Rylands Library"
},
{
"label": "Extent",
"value": "1 leaf Leaf height: 1620 mm, width: 272 mm."
},
{
"label": "Classmark",
"value": "Latin MS 1"
},
{
"label": "Subject(s)",
"value": "Land grants"
},
{
"label": "Author(s) of the Record",
"value": "Joanne Edge"
},
{
"label": "Abstract",
"value": " The 'Ravenna Papyrus', produced in Ravenna around 600 CE. It is a grant by Johannes, the leader of the 'numerus Theodosiacus', of half his land to the church of Ravenna. In the hand of Vitalis, a public scribe, and attested by six witnesses.<\/p>"
},
{
"label": "Collection",
"value": "Latin Manuscripts"
},
{
"label": "Bibliography",
"value": "