Greek Manuscripts on the Internet
This page provides images of ancient Greek manuscripts and information about thier production. It also offers access to other web sites that provide similar information. Some of these other sites also contain machine readable forms of certain manuscripts.
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The Biblical Manuscripts Project has begun to make available through the Internet high quality images and transcriptions of manuscripts as well as early printed editions of the biblical text. Here are two valuable manuscripts with excellent images on their site:
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The Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies at Ohio State University is the only comprehensive research facility for the study of Greek and Latin inscriptions and manuscripts in the United States.
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The Chester Beatty Library's collection includes papyrus manuscripts, rolls, codices and individual documents and ostraca, from Pharaohic, Graeco-Roman and Coptic Egypt ranging in date from 1800 BC to AD 800,.
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Peter van Minnen provides a little history and a discussion of methods used for dating New Testament manuscripts.
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The Digital Nestle-Aland is the electronic form of the standard scholarly edition of the Greek New Testament. The prototype available here includes the First Letter of John with transcripts of 23 manuscripts and an new apparatus.
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Search the Duke Papyrus Archive, a repository of papyrii covering a wide range of topics and time periods.
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While this site is not affiliated with the Encyclopedia of New Testament Textual Criticism, Rich Elliott has been inspired by that project and has done an admirable job of compiling a wealth of information about a wide range of biblical manuscripts.
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While this site with images of the Greek Papyri of the Heidelberg Collection is in German, English speakers can still benefit greatly from the excellent photographs of the papyri.
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A wonderful site with images of significant manuscripts, discussions of textual criticism, and much more
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Most of the manuscripts at this site (with complete images!) are not Greek, but some are. The site allows you to leaf through the pages of the available manuscripts.
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David Robert Palmer Has provided a useful listing of New Testament manuscipts much like the one found at the back of the UBS Greek New Testament, but with a number of added features, including links to images of the manuscripts.
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This site dedicated to the archaeological work at Oxyrhnchus contains photographs of the manuscrupts found there.
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The University of Oxford houses websites for both the Oxyrhnchus excavations and the work at Herculaneum, both of which include high quality images of the papyrii found at those sites.
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Dedicated to a single manuscript, this site provides images and descriptions of the fragmentary codex of an otherwise unknown gospel.
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The Perseus Project hosts the www version of the Duke Data Back of Documentary Papyri, an electronic edition of nearly 500 papyrus volumes.
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These pages contain information about the Tebtunis Papyri, the papyrus documents that were found in the winter of 1899/1900 at the site of ancient Tebtunis, Egypt. The site contains images of many of these manuscripts.
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While little of the University of Michigan’s Papyrus Collection is visible online, the web site does provide an interesting basic introduction to papyrology.
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Princeton has made available a collection of images of papyri from a wide range of times and places.