ffiffi,f{$[s$s A ffiU$,$.-ET$Fq NroA TqU S C R IFT.C S U,X"f, CTO R S *rlt* r9 4I VUL. Y. ' ,l Rotulus, edited hy Enlr von Scherning, Oegstgeest, {I{ol}alrd.} }1t'as pubti$red as a quarterly in 193X'193S. j platm) Vol. X*19$l 6with two out of print : . ' Vol. IX-1932 (with four plates! out print of \ VoI. ffI-1'933 {with thqee plate} .out of print Vot. ry-i93? {wit}l eight pXates)out of print AiI manuscri"pts ottdred in llotu-[us ** d'6lt "*npubiished anc] uarecor- ' 'q&)prova}' ded unlws otherwise stated. ,fterns, sent on raaSr.only Qe pli*tr:- graphed on special request. ' ' '.: , ': , i F'or condititns of sa]-e,see third pag'e of cover. cne ineh = ?5,4 rnld"' bne m&f. * 0,S394ineh AII orders alld correspond.anceshould be addrwsed to: l Efi[K \TON SCKEBI;TNG Juffermansstraat 35 . 0EGSTGEEST {Hollandi Telephone 24945(Lqyden) ROTULTJS A Bulletin fot Mar,,rrcript-collectors Vol. V Oegstgeest (nea. Leyden) Juffermansstraat 35 1949 RESEARCH cannot be conducted without materials. This is as true in the fields of the humanities as it is in natural or social science' A man shut up in an empty room may meditate and reflect and imagine; but he can_hardly pursue ,"."u.ilt - not, at least, in the fields of humanistic inquiry' Humanistic re- search demands materials. Some humanistic materials cannot be transferred and brought within the reach of research;...... But there are materials, just as important in their way, which can be brought to the research man; original materials, in the wa-y of inscrip- tions, manuicripts, miniatures, literary and documentary - thgsg can be secured and biought within the reach of humanistic research in our own universities and ins-titutes.Of course, they are becoming more and more difficult to obtain; more and more they are finding their way into great public collec- tions; which will not let them go. Ten years ago a seasoned dealer in such things assured me that there was not a Greek New Testament manuscript to be h"ad in Europe. This proved to be not quite true, but it reflects the general situation. Yet slch mateiials must be made available if that particular {orm o[ humanistic research is to be practised or taught. Such materials are indespen- sably necessaryto such research...... (InEoduction by Edgar |' Goodspeed-to the descriptive cataiogue of Greek New Testament mss. in America, compiled by Kenneth W. Clark, Chicago 1937). THE PIiINCIPAL (GR,EEK) IINCIAL MSS. OF TIIE NEW TESTAMENT, BY WILL. EIENRY PAINE HATCH, CTXICAGO 1938' 4to. A fine publication. Besides a valuable reproduction apparatus of 76 pla_teswith excellent in- descripiive text and bibliography the book is completed by .an troduition, dealing with the early book, materials o[ writing (papyr-us, vellum etc.), ink, forms of books etc., very use{ul to those not acquainted with the field of study of early manuscripts' DISCOVERY OF CHRISTIAN TEXTS IN EGYPT. A wonderful and important discovery was recently made in Egypt- A more or less complete fourth century codex on papyrus, bound in leather, has come to light. The volume contains, besidesother Gnostic works, the whole text of the lo"stGospel according to the Egyptians (Chronique d'Egypte, April 1948). DISCOVERY OF MANUSCRIPTS OF ORIGENES AND OF DIDYMUS TIIE BLIND. At Toura, a little village situated a few miles from Cairo, labourers working in a quarry, discovered in a large vault a lulky lot of Greek papyri of the 6th or Ttit century A.D., written in a neat Byzantine cursive -and consisting of Bibhcal commlntaries of Didymus the Blind and of works of Orige-nes, where- of considerable amongst the lost commentary on the lpistle to the Romans and portio'ns of the important treatise Contra Celsus (Revue de I'Histoire des Religions, pp. 131 f.f.. 1916). Christian libraries were in dhe time of the Arab conquest-can of Egypt much harried and the concealment by some priest of his valuable little library be "uiily u.cor1oted for. DISCOVERY OF OLD HEBREW BIBLICAL TEXTS A most alarming discovery was made in Palestina in November 1947. Near Hebron a number of skin-rolls has come to light, aof,arently'old dating f.o." tt " first centuury B.9. and containing, besides other Testamenial books, co-mmentariesand apocrypha,the Book of |esaiah. The discoveryis divided between the Ameriian School for Oriental Research and the University o[ ferusalem. A PALESTINIAN SYRIAC PALIMPSEST LEAF OF ACTS XXI. BY MATTHEW BI,ACK (Bulletin |lohn Rylands Libr. vol. xxIII, Aprit 1939, pp. 201-214 with 2 plates).-Th" <ollection of Christian Arabic ind Syriac mss. and fragments acquired by the late Dr. Mingana from the editor of Rotulus, containe"dpcr- tions of very early mss. and a considerablenumber of early palimpsests.Fro- fessor Black palimpsest deals *itF ? recently_recovered leaf of the codex of the Gospels,the so-calledcodex climaci rescrip-trs, which was iound ;;;;g;t the fragmentsin question.The upper-writing of the codex is a syriac ;;;; of the ,,scala Paradisi" written in the 9th century, and the ,,Libe, ad pasto- r.um_ .of st. |ohn climax, abbot of Mount sin;i. The unJer,writing is of the 6th century,_and consists in the main,of P_alestinianSyriac texts oi parts of the GospelsActs and St. Paui's epistles.Of the PalestinianSvrlac bible we possesslittle more than a number of isolated passagesand scatieredfrag- ments, so that the recovery of this fragment ii of clnsiderable irnportanie containing,as it does,a practicallycomplete text of Acts XXI, and' making possiblethe comparisonof the PalestinianSyriac text with the Peshitta,whicfi. appear to have much in common. THIRTY FOUR ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS FROM TIIS TTIOMAS PHILIPPS COLLECTION WERE SOLD AT SOTIIEBY'S IN JULY T,946. A Greek Psalterof the 10thcenturywith 150drawings fetched g 950,an llth century Horace (Carmina, Epodon) [_qq0.-, an illus-tratedl3th century copy of $e Topographia and Expurgnatio Hibernica r 1600.-, a l3th ceotu.y ois. of Arthurian prose romancesin old French with 162 miniatures [ 4000.'-, a similar ms. of Tristan with 89 miniatures0 1600.-, a l4th century ms. of Robert de Borron. Roman du Saint Graal I Roman de Merlin with'129 historiated initials 0 1100.-, a l4.th century illuminated ms. Alchandreus and Boethius, g de astrologja and Musica 1700.-, a l4th century ms. with poems of the ProvencalTroubadours, richly illuminated with 29 portraits of the troubadours 87500,-, a 15th century ms. of the Roman de Brui, with 102 small miniatures 91300,-, an early 15th century illuminatedms. o{ Dantes Divina Comedia t 2800.-, an early 15th century French ms. of Petrus de Crescentiuswith 14 miniatures[ 1000.-, a 15th century ms. of Roman History with 9 miniatures F,2600.-, a l5th century book of hours with 13 miniaturesr 2600.-, a dated ms. (1459) with -works the of virgil -wirh 12 miniatures and 2 drawings € 4800.-, a French 15th century ms. of cicero with 13 miniaturesg 1200.:, A Greek ms. of Aesopus,late 15th century with r35 miniatures,executed in Italy f 6200.*. The 34 volumesfetched a total of S 55.190.-. a CONTENTS. Mediaeval manuscriptsand fragments (Latin) 2050-2106' Illuminated leaves 2107-2117, Miscellaneousmanuscripts 21 18-2123. s, Mediaevaldocuments 2124-2145. Oriental manuscripts(Christian) 2146-2150' h Oriental manuscrips(Islamic) 215l-2160' Persianmanuscripts 216l-2165, Oriental miniature-paintings2166-2168. Magical books from Sumatn 2169. 2 2170-2171. s Babylonian claytablets Old Egyptian paPYri2175-2178' Funeral tablets 2179-2184. ,f papyri (literary) 218l-2193, it Greek n Greek papyri (letters I documents) 2194-2247' Coptic religious t exts 2208--2230, t Coptic magicalpaPYri 2231-2238. s Coptic papyri (letters E documents) 2239-2259' : Roman tomb-stone2260. e Miscellaneouscheap items 2261-J287. J I The Greek, Coptic, Demotic and Syriac items, describedin the present issue of Rotulus, were purchasedby the editor in 1935_36, when travelling in the Near East. We hold, besidesa large assorted stock of papyri and samples of mediaeval writing, a varied stock of oriental miniature paintings, genuine Egyptian antiquities, scarabs,amulets, fune- rary statues etc. PRICES SUITABI,E FOF" AT-L. SUBJECTS A,bbreviations 2089 Hundred Years war 2142 Acts of martyrs 2050, 93-96, 2150, 2208' Huntin,g 2167B 09 Irrigation of land 2216 A,pocrypha (Coptic) 2212, 17, 18' 23, 25, 26 lews 2284 Apothecaries2137, 41 Iuvenalis 2099 Aiabian Nishts 2265, 66 Leprosity 2140 Arboriculture 2097 Longevity 2165 Autooraphs 2123, 24 Louis XIY 2122 Auguitine $t.\ 2055,56 ,74 Love charms 2232, see magic Astrology 2169 Magic 205'1,2169, 72, 89, 90, 2231-3E Bees 2163 Marriage 2127, 32, 39, 71, 2203, 16 Belsazar 2173 Medical 2053,57, 83, 2137,{0, 41, 65' E3' Bibles 2061-65, 70, 2113,46' 47' 2280 99,2281, 2250, 2103 Bible (English) 2066 Nlusic 2107-09, 17, 2245, 69, 77,78 Btble (Greek) 2i91 Napoleon 2123 Bible (Coptic) 2210, 13, 19-21, 29 Petrarch 2092 Bible (portions ot) 2079-81' 2149' Plautus 2073 79 Pharmacology2053, 2137, 4l Bibliography 2105 Plavs 2l2l t Book keeping 2239, 49 Poeiry (French) 2069, 78, 87, 9I 1 Bvron 2143 Poetry (Latin) 2052, 83, 2101 Canal wor^kers 2253 Poetry (Persian) 2159, 61, 62, 64 Chronicles 2281, 82, see ePics Polo 2167E Cicero 2099 Postal histcry 2205 Classics(Roman) 2067, 72,73, 82, 89' 92, Provencallanguage 2133 99 Puccini 2143 Classics (Greek) 2071, 2l8l-87 Quran 2151-56 Cornedians209{ Sailing boats 2170 Concubines2186 Servian language 2149, 50 Costumes2127 Shipping 2143a Communists 2167h Shropshire2126 Dante 2092 School books 2052, 2193 Dendrology 2059 Sporting 2167 Dictionaries, see glossaries Taxes 2206, 2254, 56 Drr'ination, see magic Terence 2099 Epics 2069, 82, 87, 2162, 64' 67, 8l-83 Tobacco 2166 Epitaphs 2092,2260 Tomb-stone (Roman) 2260 Fables 2092 Yenice 2735-36, 2143 Geographicalnames (Egyptian\ 2247, 49 Vineculture 2097 Glosiaries 2073, 2101, 05, 58, 88 Vineyards 2i06 Goldsmiths 2145 Yirgil 2092, 99 Hbmerus 2181, 83 Yorkshire 2125 Horace 2099 7.oo1,ogy2163, 2059 Horses 2104, 2142E, 67, 68 PI.as.