The Princeton University's collection of papyri, housed at the Princeton University

Princeton University

Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

, was compiled by Rosalie Cook and other papyrologists, working under the supervision of Don C. Skemer. The catalog contains 1529 inventory items, 648 of them belong to 'unidentified papyri', nearly 700 items in Greek, 260 of them are published. 115 papyri written in various scripts of the Egyptian language, only 8 Coptic

Coptic language

Coptic or Coptic Egyptian is the current stage of the Egyptian language, a northern Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Egypt until at least the 17th century. Egyptian began to be written using the Greek alphabet in the 1st century...

 papyri have been published.

The first papyri arrived at Princeton between 1901 and 1922.

• Pharaonic Papyri
• Biblical manuscripts (²⁰, ⁵⁴, manuscripts of LXX)
• Christian literature (writings of the Church Fathers)
• Greek Documentary Papyri
• Arabic Papyri

External links

• at the Princeton University Library
• Digital Images of Selected Princeton Papyri
• Two Princeton Papyri Revised at the Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 33 (1996), pp. 73-76.