There are people coming to Manchester just to see our fragment of John’s gospel. A tiny scrap coming from a codex page, on which few lines of chapter eighteen of the Gospel of John appear, P 52 is the only item of the entire Library’s collections to be on permanent display for the great religious value many visitors attribute to it. III 457), thought to be the most ancient extant fragment of the New Testament. If you come visit the library (and you should since it is an architectural gem) you’ll see the most famous of all our papyri: P 52 (aka P.Ryl. Besides teaching Classics and Ancient History, I study and take care of my University’s collection of papyri, stored in the John Rylands Library of Manchester. Kersel, Archaeologies of Texts: Archaeology, Technology, and Ethics, Oxbow: Hevertown 2014, 216. Gerstenblith, “Do Restrictions on Publication of Undocumented Texts Promote Legitimacy?” in: M.T. The term is also often used more specifically in voluntary codes of museums and professional associations to indicate an antiquity whose existence out of the country of discovery is not documented before 1970 (the date of adoption of the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property) or which was not legally obtained and exported from its country of discovery after 1970.” “An undocumented antiquity is one that has poor or only recent evidence of its ownership history (provenance) and how it was obtained. “The elderly owner of our new Sappho papyrus wishes to remain anonymous, and its provenance is obscure (it was originally owned, it seems, by a high-ranking German officer), but he was determined its secrets should not die with him.”īettany Hughes, “Lover, Poet, Muse and a Ghost Made Real,” The Sunday Times, 2 February 2014 Roberta Mazza on cultural artifacts as commodity
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