Classics

Papyrology, epigraphy and paleography

Please be advised that the titles featured below are merely representative of the New York Public Library’s holdings on this topic and should not be mistaken for an exhaustive list. To locate additional resources, researchers may find it helpful to search the Library’s online catalog, CATNYP, using the following subject headings:

  • Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri)
  • Manuscripts, Latin (Papyri)
  • Inscriptions, Greek
  • Inscriptions, Latin
  • Paleography, Greek
  • Paleography, Latin

In addition, researchers may want to perform general searches in CATNYP for the following classmark headings:

  • Call number “BVEF” for Greek inscriptions
  • Call number “BWDF” for Latin inscriptions
  • Call number “RCC” for Greek paleography and orthography
  • Call number “RDC” for Latin paleography and orthography
  • Call number “*OBKQ” for Egyptian papyri
  • Call number “*IC” for general paleography
  • Call number “*ICC” for specimens of manuscripts generally
  • Call number “*GBI” for bibliographies and catalogs of manuscripts

Resources in papyrology

Corpus dei papiri filosofici greci e latini (CPF). Firenze: L.S. Olsckhi, 1989-. JFL 92-622; JFP 03-5.

McNamee, Kathleen. Abbreviations in Greek Literary Papyri and Ostraca. Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1981. JFD 81-6534.

Oates, John F. Checklist of editions of Greek, Latin, Demotic, and Coptic papyri, ostraca, and tablets. Oakville, Conn.: American Society of Papyrologists, 2001. JFE 02-13881

Pestman, P.W. The new papyrological primer. New York: E.J. Brill, 1990. JFE 91-3916.

Betz, Hans Dieter, ed. The Greek magical papyri in translation, including the Demotic spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986-. *OBKQ 90-1286.

Turner, E.G. Greek Papyri: An Introduction. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1968. D-18 4858.

Resources in epigraphy

L'Année épigraphique; revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l'antiquité romaine. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. BWDF.

Bodel, John, ed. Epigraphic Evidence: Ancient History from Inscriptions. London; New York: Routledge, 2001. JFD 01-16755.

Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. Editio altera. Berolini: G. Reimerum, 1893-1955. This series comprises Latin inscriptions from a range of historical periods and geographic regions. Editors and call numbers vary.

Gordon, Arthur E. Illustrated introduction to Latin epigraphy. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1983. JFF 84-798.

Peek, Werner, ed. Griechische Vers-Inschriften. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1955-. E-10 982 Bd. 1.

Inscriptiones Graecae. Berolini: G. Reimer, 1873-. BVEF++. This series, published under the authority of the Preussische Akadamie der Wissenschaften, comprises a variety of Greek inscriptions from a range of historical periods and geographic regions.

Keppie, Lawrence. Understanding Roman Inscriptions. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 1991. JFF 92-916.

Meiggs, Russell, and David Lewis. A Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions to the End of the 5th Century B.C. New York : Oxford University Press, 1988. *R-BVEF 92-7776.

Woodhead, A. Geoffrey. The Study of Greek Inscriptions. 2d ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981. JFD 81-5507.

Resources in paleography

Barbour, Ruth. Greek Literary Hands A.D. 400-1600. New York : Oxford University Press, 1981. JFF 82-115.

Bischoff, Bernhard. Latin Palaeography: Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Translated by Dáibhí ó Cróinin and David Ganz. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1990. JFE 90-3561.

Groningen, B.A. van. Short Manual of Greek Palaeography. Leyden, A.W. Sijthoff, 1967. F-11 3704.

Roberts, Colin H. Greek Literary Hands, 350 B. C.-A. D. 400. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956. F-10 875.

Seider, Richard. Paläographie der griechischen Papyri. Stuttgart : A. Hiersemann, 1967-. M-11 3477.

Seider, Richard. Paläographie der lateinischen Papyri. Stuttgart, A. Hiersemann, 1972-. JFM 76-424.

Thompson, Edward Maunde. A Handbook of Greek and Latin Palaeography. 3rd. Ed. London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1906. *IC.

Thompson, Edward Maunde. An Introduction to Greek and Latin Palaeography. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1912. *ICC 75-4870.