Category Archives: Codices
Horizontal kolleseis in Papyrus Codices
Work on a recent article about the construction and date of P.Bodmer 14–15 had me thinking again about the manufacture of papyrus rolls. I was on the lookout for papyrus codices with bifolia cut from rolls made of very long … Continue reading
The Antinoopolis Charioteers Papyrus and Alexander the Great
One of the most famous illustrated papyri is a scrap that was found in a garbage heap in the Egyptian city of Antinoopolis. The papyrus contains a painting of a group of charioteers wearing brightly colored racing outfits. The papyrus … Continue reading
A New Article the Production and Date of P.Bodmer 14-15 (P75)
The latest issue of Novum Testamentum has an article that I wrote on the production and date of P.Bodmer 14-15 (a.k.a. P75, a.k.a. Pap.Hanna 1, Mater verbi, TM 61743), a papyrus codex containing the Gospel According to Luke and the … Continue reading
A New Article on P.Oxy. 7.1008 and 7.1009 (P15 and P16)
The latest issue of Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft contains an article I wrote on two papyrus folia from Oxyrhynchus. Here is the abstract: P.Oxy. 7.1008 and 7.1009 (P15 and P16 in the INTF’s Kurzgefasste Liste) preserve portions of 1 … Continue reading
The Provenance and Date of the Berlin Cretans
One of the reference points that used to come up very frequently in discussions of the earliest codices was a manuscript of Euripides–the Berlin Cretans, an isolated parchment folium that was published in 1907 as BKT V.2 XVII (P.Berol. inv. … Continue reading
New Article on the History of Codex Alexandrinus
The latest issue of Novum Testamentum contains an important (open access!) article on Codex Alexandrinus: Mina Monier, “The History of Codex Alexandrinus: New Evidence from Arabic Paratexts,” Novum Testamentum 67 (2025) 501-526. Recent scholarship on the codex has generally rejected … Continue reading
New Article on P.Oxy. 1 2 and P.Oxy. 7 1010
This will be the first of a few posts about some recent articles of mine that have just been published. The first is a piece jointly authored by AnneMarie Luijendijk and me. The full article is available (open access!) here: … Continue reading
A Relief from Portus showing a Writer at a Desk
Following up on my post about a relief showing writers at desks at Ostia, I should also mention a second artifact found in the same region. It is a relief uncovered in the nineteenth century at Portus (just north of … Continue reading
A Relief from Ostia Showing Writers at Desks
The museum at the archaeological park at Ostia Antica has reopened after many years of closure for renovations. The results are quite impressive, and I hope to have a chance to post some reflections about the museum itself soon, but … Continue reading
A Correction and a Codicological Mystery in P.Bodmer 13
I only recently learned of the death, about a year ago now, of Stuart G. Hall (1928-2023). It sent me back to an article that we wrote together. In 2015, I stumbled across grainy black and white photographs of what … Continue reading
