Category Archives: Manuscript Collections

A New Article on P.Oxy. 7.1008 and 7.1009 (P15 and P16)

Posted on May 7, 2026 by Brent Nongbri

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 →

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An Early Latin Codex with a Clear Date of Production

Posted on March 28, 2026 by Brent Nongbri

One of the frustrating things about working with the earliest codices and codex fragments is the lack of securely dated examples. Palaeography can give a general range, and archaeological context or reuse can sometimes give us a decent terminus ante … Continue reading →

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The Recette de Saint-Remi and the Layout of an Early Greek Parchment Codex

Posted on December 31, 2025 by Brent Nongbri

As 2025 comes to a close, one last article is coming out: “Mise-en-page Between Roman Egypt and Medieval Europe: The Recette de Saint-Remi and the Layout of an Early Greek Parchment Codex (P.Ant. 1 27),” Fragmentology 8 (2025), 155-169. This … Continue reading →

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Augustine in the Cairo Genizah

Posted on December 22, 2025 by Brent Nongbri

Thinking about the letters of Augustine reminds me of one of the more interesting manuscripts I encountered this year. Among the many remarkable manuscripts in the Cairo Genizah is Cambridge University Library ADD.4320. It’s a collection of fragments of a … Continue reading →

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7Q5 and Appeals to Authority, Part 2: Herbert Hunger

Posted on October 6, 2025 by Brent Nongbri

I have written before about 7Q5, a small fragment of papyrus found in Cave 7Q at Qumran. It contains an unidentified text in Greek. It became (in)famous in the early 1970s when José O’Callaghan (1922-2001) argued that it preserved a bit … Continue reading →

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New Article on P.Oxy. 1 2 and P.Oxy. 7 1010

Posted on August 6, 2025 by Brent Nongbri

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 →

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New Images of P52

Posted on July 20, 2025 by Brent Nongbri

For some time now, the Rylands Library at the University of Manchester has hosted good digital images of P.Ryl. Gr. 3 457 (a.k.a. P52), the fragment of the Gospel According to John. I recently visited the University of Manchester’s LUNA … Continue reading →

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New Radiocarbon Analysis of the Dead Sea Scrolls

Posted on June 5, 2025 by Brent Nongbri

An important new study of the Dead Sea Scrolls has just been published (open access!) in the journal PLOS One: Mladen Popović et al., “Dating ancient manuscripts using radiocarbon and AI-based writing style analysis,” PLOS One 2025. In some ways, … Continue reading →

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7Q5 and Appeals to Authority, Part 1: Orsolina Montevecchi

Posted on May 23, 2025 by Brent Nongbri

I am fascinated by the Wikipedia entry for 7Q5, which seems to continuously bounce back and forth between being useful and informative to being goofy and borderline incoherent. 7Q5 is a tiny fragment of papyrus found in Cave 7Q at … Continue reading →

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The Lying Pen of Scribes Project: An Appreciation

Posted on January 17, 2025 by Brent Nongbri

Over the last few years, I have had a number of occasions to mention The Lying Pen of Scribes, a project on the Dead Sea Scrolls funded by the Research Council of Norway. In fact, it may not be quite … Continue reading →

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