Mitteilungen aus der Papyrussammlung der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek (Papyrus Erzherzog Rainer). Neue Serie

MPER XXXIV, 1 is the first comprehensive catalogue of 238 Late Antique textiles housed in the Papyrus Collection of the Austrian National Library. Many of these exceptionally well-preserved textiles are published for the first time, including in-depth studies of weaving techniques and iconography. 30 textiles were further analysed with modern scientific methods and discussed in MPER XXXIV, 2.

MPER XXXIV, 2 presents knowledge of textile dyeing in Late Antique Egypt (ca. 300–800 CE) based on interdisciplinary research on 30 Late Antique textiles from the Papyrus Collection of the Austrian National Library, combining scientific analyses with the study of ancient and scholarly literature.

The general part deals with the dyeing materials and techniques that were available in Late Antique Egypt to create a wide variety of colours. The catalogue part contains the scientific analyses of 85 samples of 30 Late Antique textiles from this collection. The results of dye, fibre and mordant analyses are documented with UHPLC chromatograms, UV/VIS absorption spectra, SEM-EDX spectra, microscopic images and tables. Textiles in which specific dyeing materials have been identified are listed in the appendices including textiles from the Papyrus Collection of the Austrian National Library as well as archaeological textiles from numerous international projects. A detailed bibliography completes this volume.

MPER XXXIV, 1 – the first comprehensive compilation of Late Antique textiles from the Papyrus collection of the Austrian Library – provides an overall study of these 30 textiles and 208 more including iconography and the analyses of the weaving techniques.

MPER XXXIV, 1 and 2 can also be purchased as a set.

The book collects the prices of materials and craft products preserved in Greek, Latin, Coptic and Arabic documents from Egypt, but also from other areas of the late antique and early Arab Mediterranean world, for the period between the late 4th and the late 8th century AD. The eleven chapters dedicated to textiles, leather, wood, metals, building materials, ceramics etc., are followed by indexes of cited papyri, products and subjects. The amount of data presented has no parallel in earlier literature and gives a detailed, in-depth and articulated picture of the costs of a number of products that goes far beyond what can be found in other studies of this kind. Additionally, the work discusses the interpretation of several hundreds of documents, proposes over 200 new readings and new dating of texts, and analyses a wide range of aspects related to material culture, lexicographical issues, modes of production etc. By making available to non-specialists of papyrology a huge amount of reliable, comprehensive and contextualised data, the volume is going to constitute an essential point of reference for the economic history of the period, but also for comparative studies on prices in different periods and geographical areas.

Il libro raccoglie i prezzi di materiali e prodotti artigianali conservati nei documenti greci, latini, copti e arabi dall’Egitto, ma anche da altre aree del mondo mediterraneo per il periodo tra la fine del IV e la fine dell’VIII d.C. Gli undici capitoli dedicati a tessuti, pelle, legno, metalli, materiali da costruzione, ceramica etc. sono accompagnati da indici dei papiri citati, dei prodotti, e dei soggetti.

The work is the first comprehensive lexical tool for pre-modern Arabic epistolography. It is based on systematic analysis of a corpus of around 500 Egyptian letters from the 7^th to the 16^th century CE. It covers every kind of text, including family letters, business letters, and official edicts. Keywords are provided in Arabic script with a transcription, and the transcribed letter texts are included.

This volume presents an edition of twenty-six drawings on papyrus and parchment from the holdings of the papyrus collections in Berlin and Vienna. Starting from previously published material of illuminated papyri, parchments and papers, this study is intended as a contribution to the discussion about the use of sketches and models in the visual arts. The actual edition catalogue of the twenty-six drawings is prefaced by an introduction reflecting on the definition of the terms "sketch" and "model" and commenting on the term "pattern book".

The Greek papyri and parchments of the Vienna collection have been published over the last one-hundred twenty-five years – from the advent of papyrology to the present. This collection of new editions of the New Testament Greek papyri and parchments includes all of the known and identified manuscripts, as well as four important lectionary texts and an apocryphal gospel (the so-called Fayyum fragment). All of these editions are newly made from examination of the manuscripts themselves. Without detracting in any way from the work of such previous scholars as Wessely and Sanz, these editions provide new readings and reconstructions, and correct previous mistakes. Each text is discussed as an artifact in its own right, with all of its individual and particular characteristics. All of the editions are presented with introductions, diplomatic and reading texts, and comments. Included are such phenomena as ekphonetic notation used for liturgical purposes.

The fifth volume of the Coptic Collection is, like the others, a collection of previously edited documentary texts from journals, commemorative volumes, conference papers, and so on. The texts are organized by subject and include apparatus critici. The volume concludes with comprehensive indexes and concordances. Like the others, this volume also includes a complete bibliography of recent Coptic publications.

The Coptic Collection IV continues the project begun in the earlier Volumes I-III of compiling documentary texts into a clearly organized compendium. Volume IV collects letters, lectures, primary documents, receipts, orders, lists, inscriptions, and epigraphs dating from the 4th to the 12th century A.D. Comprehensive indexes, concordances, and a list of corrections supplement the collection of texts. The Coptic Collection should prove to be an indispensable tool for Coptic studies.

Das Koptische Sammelbuch III, das wie die vorhergehenden Bände ein unverzichtbares Hilfsmittel für koptische Studien darstellt, folgt jetzt als Fortsetzung zu den bereits erschienenen Bänden I und II. Band III ist wie diese eine Sammlung bereits edierter, aber in Zeitschriften, Festschriften u.ä. verstreuter Texte. Sie werden nun endlich leicht zugänglich gemacht nach dem Prinzip des griechischen Sammelbuches, welches für die griechische Papyrologie schon seit Jahrzehnten existiert. Das Koptische Sammelbuch hat für koptische Studien eine neue Perspektive eröffnet. Es werden nur dokumentarische Texte erfasst. Dies sind Briefe, Urkunden, Verträge, Bürgschaften, Testamente, Quittungen, Listen, Inschriften, usw., welche einen lebendigen Einblick in den Alltag der Spätantike ermöglichen. Die Texte sind nach Inhalt geordnet. Der Textsammlung wurden 64 Seiten Indices und 18 Seiten Konkordanzen beigegeben. Am Ende des Bandes gibt es wieder eine Berichtigungsliste, welche das leichte Auffinden von Literatur, in der neue Lesungen dargeboten werden, ermöglicht. Das Buch umfasst 284 Seiten.