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1 online resource (xiv, 371 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Studies in book and print culture
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Studies in book and print culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-355) and indexes. |
| Contents |
""Contents""; ""Terminology, Conventions, and Sigla""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1 Introduction""; ""1.0 Voluminology""; ""1.1 Gathering the Evidence: The Necessity for Autopsy""; ""1.2 Definition of the Project""; ""1.3 Reconstruction of the Bookroll""; ""2 Scribes in Oxyrhynchus: Scribal Habits, Paradosis, and the Uniformity of the Literary Roll""; ""2.0 Prologue: The Importance of Case Studies""; ""2.1 A Survey of Scribes with Multiple Surviving Rolls""; ""2.1.1 Scribe #A1""; ""2.1.2 Scribe #A2""; ""2.1.3 Scribe #A3""; ""2.1.4 Scribe #A5""; ""2.1.5 Scribe #A6""; ""2.1.6 Scribe #A7"" |
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""2.1.7 Scribe #A17""""2.1.8 Scribe #A19""; ""2.1.9 Scribe #A20""; ""2.1.10 Scribe #A24""; ""2.1.11 Scribe #A25""; ""2.1.12 Scribe #A28""; ""2.1.13 Scribe #A30""; ""2.1.14 Scribe #A31""; ""2.1.15 Scribe #A33""; ""2.1.16 Scribe #B1""; ""2.1.17 Scribe #B2""; ""2.1.18 Scribe #B3""; ""2.1.19 Scribe #B4""; ""2.1.20 Scribe #B5""; ""2.1.21 Scribe #B6""; ""2.2 Scribes with Multiple Surviving Rolls: Summary and Evaluation""; ""2.2.1 Excursus: Format changes in mid-roll""; ""2.3 How Did the Scribe Copy the Text? Implicit examples for and against line-by-line copying"" |
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""2.3.1 Copying the Text: Examples of scribal error that imply an exemplar of same or similar line length""""2.3.2 Copying the Text: Examples of scribal error that imply an exemplar of different line length""; ""2.3.3 Copying the Text: A remarkable example where different papyri of the same text coincide in line division""; ""2.3.4 Copying the Text: Summary and conclusion""; ""2.4 Uniformity and Variation in Bookrolls""; ""2.4.1 Uniformity and Variation: Width of column, intercolumn, and width from column to column"" |
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""2.4.2 Uniformity and Variation: Height of column, margins, and height of roll""""2.5 Conclusions""; ""Tables""; ""3 Formal Characteristics of the Bookroll""; ""3.0 Prologue: A Different Aesthetic""; ""3.1 Construction of the Bookroll""; ""3.1.1 Kollesis and Kollema: The constitution of the roll""; ""3.1.2 Laying out the Columns: Maas's Law, ruling and alignment dots""; ""3.1.3 Excursus: The laying out of columns in the Arden Hyperides papyrus (MP 1233)""; ""3.2 Dimensions of the Column: Widths""; ""3.2.1 Column Width in Prose Texts"" |
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""3.2.2 Intercolumn and Column-to-column Width in Prose Texts""""3.2.3 Letter Counts in Prose Texts""; ""3.2.4 Column and Intercolumn Widths in Verse Texts""; ""3.3 Dimensions of the Column: Height""; ""3.4 Dimensions of the Column: Width X Height""; ""3.4.1 Width X Height: Prose texts""; ""3.4.2 Width X Height:Verse texts""; ""3.5 Upper and Lower Margins""; ""3.6 Roll Height""; ""3.7 Roll Length""; ""3.8 Roll Format and Literary Genre""; ""3.9 Editions de luxe""; ""3.10 Private versus Professional Book Production""; ""Tables""; ""Appendix 1 Papyri Included in the Sample"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Oxyrhynchus papyri.
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Oxyrhynchus papyri. |
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Papyrus d'Oxyrhynchos. |
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Oxyrhynchus papyri. |
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Books and reading -- Greece -- History.
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Books and reading. |
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Greece. |
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History. |
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Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri) -- Egypt -- Bahnasā.
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Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri) |
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Egypt -- Bahnasā. |
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Transmission of texts -- Egypt -- Bahnasā.
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Transmission of texts. |
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Books and reading -- History -- To 1500.
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| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
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Greek literature -- Manuscripts.
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Greek literature -- Manuscripts. |
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Greek literature. |
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Scriptoria -- Egypt -- Bahnasā.
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Scriptoria. |
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Bahnasā (Egypt) -- Antiquities.
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Scribes -- Egypt -- Bahnasā.
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Scribes. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Manuscripts.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Johnson, William A. (William Allen), 1956- Bookrolls and scribes in Oxyrhynchus. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2004 0802037348 (DLC) 2004478424 (OCoLC)52574789 |
| ISBN |
9781442671515 (electronic book) |
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1442671513 (electronic book) |
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0802037348 |
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9780802037343 |
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