Bookrolls and scribes in Oxyrhynchus / William A. Johnson.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-355) and indexes.

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Contents -- Terminology, Conventions, and Sigla -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 1.0 Voluminology -- 1.1 Gathering the Evidence: The Necessity for Autopsy -- 1.2 Definition of the Project -- 1.3 Reconstruction of the Bookroll -- 2 Scribes in Oxyrhynchus: Scribal Habits, Paradosis, and the Uniformity of the Literary Roll -- 2.0 Prologue: The Importance of Case Studies -- 2.1 A Survey of Scribes with Multiple Surviving Rolls -- 2.1.1 Scribe #A1 -- 2.1.2 Scribe #A2 -- 2.1.3 Scribe #A3 -- 2.1.4 Scribe #A5 -- 2.1.5 Scribe #A6 -- 2.1.6 Scribe #A7

2.1.7 Scribe #A172.1.8 Scribe #A19 -- 2.1.9 Scribe #A20 -- 2.1.10 Scribe #A24 -- 2.1.11 Scribe #A25 -- 2.1.12 Scribe #A28 -- 2.1.13 Scribe #A30 -- 2.1.14 Scribe #A31 -- 2.1.15 Scribe #A33 -- 2.1.16 Scribe #B1 -- 2.1.17 Scribe #B2 -- 2.1.18 Scribe #B3 -- 2.1.19 Scribe #B4 -- 2.1.20 Scribe #B5 -- 2.1.21 Scribe #B6 -- 2.2 Scribes with Multiple Surviving Rolls: Summary and Evaluation -- 2.2.1 Excursus: Format changes in mid-roll -- 2.3 How Did the Scribe Copy the Text? Implicit examples for and against line-by-line copying

2.3.1 Copying the Text: Examples of scribal error that imply an exemplar of same or similar line length2.3.2 Copying the Text: Examples of scribal error that imply an exemplar of different line length -- 2.3.3 Copying the Text: A remarkable example where different papyri of the same text coincide in line division -- 2.3.4 Copying the Text: Summary and conclusion -- 2.4 Uniformity and Variation in Bookrolls -- 2.4.1 Uniformity and Variation: Width of column, intercolumn, and width from column to column

2.4.2 Uniformity and Variation: Height of column, margins, and height of roll2.5 Conclusions -- Tables -- 3 Formal Characteristics of the Bookroll -- 3.0 Prologue: A Different Aesthetic -- 3.1 Construction of the Bookroll -- 3.1.1 Kollesis and Kollema: The constitution of the roll -- 3.1.2 Laying out the Columns: Maas's Law, ruling and alignment dots -- 3.1.3 Excursus: The laying out of columns in the Arden Hyperides papyrus (MP 1233) -- 3.2 Dimensions of the Column: Widths -- 3.2.1 Column Width in Prose Texts

3.2.2 Intercolumn and Column-to-column Width in Prose Texts3.2.3 Letter Counts in Prose Texts -- 3.2.4 Column and Intercolumn Widths in Verse Texts -- 3.3 Dimensions of the Column: Height -- 3.4 Dimensions of the Column: Width X Height -- 3.4.1 Width X Height: Prose texts -- 3.4.2 Width X Height:Verse texts -- 3.5 Upper and Lower Margins -- 3.6 Roll Height -- 3.7 Roll Length -- 3.8 Roll Format and Literary Genre -- 3.9 Editions de luxe -- 3.10 Private versus Professional Book Production -- Tables -- Appendix 1 Papyri Included in the Sample

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