Bookrolls and Scribes in Oxyrhynchus / / William A. Johnson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
• VerfasserIn: Johnson, William A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Book and Print Culture
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Terminology, Conventions, and Sigla --; Acknowledgments --; 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 --; Glossary --; Bibliography --; Subject Index --; Index of Papyri
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442671515; 9783110667691; 9783110490954
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442671515
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: William A. Johnson.

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, in turn, 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. Meticulously erudite, this work will be of great importance to all papyrologists, classicists, and literary scholars.