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SCHOW, N.(I.), ed. Charta papyracea Graece scripta Musei Borgiani Velitris qua series Ptolemaidis Arsinoiticae in aggeribus et fossis operantium exhib. Cum adnotat. critica et palaeographica in textum chartae. Rome, A. Fulgonius, 1788. xliv, 148 pp. W. 7 etched full-p. plates. Lge-4°. Old green h. mor. (Bind. a bit chafed/worn in places, but a very good copy).
First edition of a work (1 copy in NCC) which marks the beginning of papyrology as a discipline. The Danish classicist Niels Iversen Schow (1754-1830) published in this work for the first time a Greek papyrus that recorded a series of receipts for work performed in 193 AD on the irrigation dikes in the Fayyum district of Egypt. The papyrus itself had been bought in 1778 near Memphis by an anonymous merchant. Legend has it, the merchant bought only this one papyrus of the fifty offered for sale; "the Turks" proceeded to burn the rest, delighting in the resulting aroma. Details of this story have been contested, but fact is that the papyrus that escaped obliteration was donated to Cardinal Stefano Borgia. It is therefore also known as the Charta Borgiana. From the library of Minoïdes Mynas/Minas, an important fighter for freedom in Greece's independence movement. - Bagnall, Oxford handbook of papyrology, p. 59-60. - Fine copy with ample margins.€ 1500
uitslag € 2200
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