Karl Wessely
Encyclopedia
Karl Wessely was an Austrian palaeographer and papyrus scholar
. He examined manuscripts housed at the Austrian National Library
(e.g. Papyrus 3, Uncial 058
, 059
, 0101
, 0237
) and in other important European libraries (Papyrus 5).
Papyrology
Papyrology is the study of ancient literature, correspondence, legal archives, etc., as preserved in manuscripts written on papyrus, the most common form of writing material in the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Greece, and Rome...
. He examined manuscripts housed at the Austrian National Library
Austrian National Library
The Austrian National Library , is the largest library in Austria, with 7.4 million items in its collections. It is located in the Hofburg Palace in Vienna; since 2005 some of the collections are located in the baroque Palais Mollard-Clary...
(e.g. Papyrus 3, Uncial 058
Uncial 058
Uncial 058 , ε 010 , is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated palaeographically to the 4th century.- Description :...
, 059
Uncial 058
Uncial 058 , ε 010 , is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated palaeographically to the 4th century.- Description :...
, 0101
Uncial 0101
Uncial 0101 , ε 48 , is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament. It is dated palaeographically to the 8th century. Formerly it was labelled by TV. The manuscript has survived in very fragmentary condition....
, 0237
Uncial 0237
Uncial 0237 , ε 014 , is a Greek-Coptic uncial manuscript of the New Testament. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 6th century.- Description :...
) and in other important European libraries (Papyrus 5).
Works
- Evangelien-Fragmente auf Papyrus, Wiener Studien 4 (1882), 198-214.
- Prolegomena ad papyrorum graecorum novam collectionem edendam (Wien 1883)
- Bemerkungen zu einigen Publicationen auf dem Gebiete der älteren griechischen Paläographie (Wien 1892)
- Papyrus Erzherzog Rainer. Führer durch die Ausstellung, Wien 1894.
- Wie haben die alten Römer geschrieben? (Wien 1898)
- Les plus anciens monuments du christianisme, Patrologia Orientalis IV, 2, (1907).
- Ein fayumisch-griechisches Evangelien-fragment, Wiener Studien 26 (Vienna, 1912), pp. 270-274.
- Griechische und koptische Texte theologischen inhalts, Studien zur Paläographie und Papyruskunde, (Leipzig 1912) reprinted (Amsterdam 1966)
External links
- Works of Wessely at the Internet Archive