Image Content: Greek literary and philosophical documents Herculaneum Papyri–Search this database of papyri found at Herculaneum, Italy.Image Content:very sharp images of New Testament manuscripts. Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts.Catalogue of New Testament Papyri and Codices 2nd–10th Centuries–no images on this site but lots of links and a nice overview of major collections of New Testament manuscripts.Image Content: New Testament, Old Testament, Hebrew Scriptures Biblical Manuscripts Project–Purpose is to make “high quality images and transcriptions of important Bible manuscripts and early printed editions freely available through the Internet.” Scroll down the page for descriptions and links to these excellent images.Image Content: many genres, many languages, many locations, many time periods Yale Papyrus Collection–Search Yale’s Papyrus Collection Database to view images.Image Content: Greek (including New Testament) and Latin papyri To see images click on “Exhibits” or “APIS” in menu bar at top. University of Michigan Papyrus Collection–Well-designed site with lots of information on ancient writing.Image Content: administrative, religious, literary manuscripts in Greek (including New Testament), Latin, Egyptian, Coptic, Arabic Princeton University Library Papyrus Homepage–Scroll down the page and click on “Digital Images of Selected Princeton Papyri”. Image Content: “1400 papyri from ancient Egypt.” Includes Old Testament (used by christians), New Testament, and other early Christian manuscripts Catalog records included with each image. Duke Papyrus Archive–Very easy site to navigate.Image Content: from 3rd century BC to 3rd century AD administrative, legal, business, and religious documents literary fragments (Homer, Xenophon, Pinder, Euripides) “…largest collection of papyrus texts in the Americas.” For images click on “The Collection” and “On-Line Exhibits” on the left-hand side of the page. Center for the Tebtunis Papyri–UC Berkley collection from the town of Tebtunis Egypt.The five collections immediately below are included in APIS. Note:Search system gives you the option to “Show records w/images first”. papyri, ostraca, wood tablets, etc) located in collections around the world.” Browse and search the database. APIS: Advanced Papyrological Information System–“APIS is a collections-based repository hosting information about and images of papyrological materials (e.g.(By the way, if anyone knows of any other good sites with images of ancient manuscripts, please let me know. The briefly annotated list below highlights some of the more interesting sites I ran across. I found quite a few imaging projects that are making ancient Mediterranean manuscripts more and more available to the scholar and layperson. I was recently trying to track down online images of ancient Christian and Jewish manuscripts.
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