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33163076

Description

Title
Document
Published / Created
Byzantine CE vi [HIB]
Description
Greek
Provenance
Acquired by gift and purchase, 1889-2005. Acquisition information is recorded in each individual description and on the Library’s Web site, here: https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/research-teaching/doing-research-beinecke/introduction-yale-papyrus-collection/guide-yale-papyrus#Acquisition, The Yale Papyrus Collection was held by the Yale University Library from 1899 to 1930, when it was moved to the Department of Classics. The collection was transferred from the Department of Classics to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library gradually between 1964 and 1967. A group of items including wax tablets and mummy tags (P.CtYBR inv.4971-4985) was transferred from the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History to the Beinecke Library in 1996., Acquisition Information, 1927: Purchased in Egypt on behalf of Yale, with funds that may have been donated by the General Education Fund of the Rockefeller Foundation's General Education Board. The dealers' names are given as Harold Idris Bell reported them in his 1927 report.|P.CtYBR inv. 134-136, and 2076-2078 were purchased by William Linn Westermann from Trifon Kalimkurion in Cairo, 20 January 1927.| The manuscripts were brought to Yale from the British Museum between 9 May and 11 October 1927.
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Language
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Item Location

Repository
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number
YPC
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Container / Volume
box P.CtYBR inv. 134

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Access And Usage Rights

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Public
Citation
P.CtYBR inv. [#]. Yale Papyrus Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

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Object ID (OID)
33163076

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