TY - BOOK ID - 8605377 TI - Bookrolls and scribes in Oxyrhynchus PY - 2004 SN - 0802037348 1442626410 9786612023309 1442671513 1282023306 9781442671515 9780802037343 PB - Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, DB - UniCat KW - Books and reading KW - Greek literature KW - Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri) KW - Oxyrhynchus papyri KW - Scribes KW - Scriptoria KW - Transmission of texts KW - 091.141 KW - 091.141 Papyri KW - Papyri KW - Literary transmission KW - Manuscript transmission KW - Textual transmission KW - Criticism, Textual KW - Editions KW - Manuscripts KW - Copying rooms KW - Writing rooms KW - Rooms KW - Illumination of books and manuscripts KW - Monasteries KW - Monastic libraries KW - Copyists KW - Greek papyri KW - Papyri, Greek KW - Manuscripts, Classical (Papyri) KW - Manuscripts (Papyri) KW - Balkan literature KW - Byzantine literature KW - Classical literature KW - Classical philology KW - Greek philology KW - Appraisal of books KW - Books KW - Choice of books KW - Evaluation of literature KW - Literature KW - Reading, Choice of KW - Reading and books KW - Reading habits KW - Reading public KW - Reading KW - Reading interests KW - Reading promotion KW - History KW - Reproduction KW - Appraisal KW - Evaluation KW - Bahnasā (Egypt) KW - Al Bahnasā (Egypt) KW - El-Bahnasa (Egypt) KW - Oxirrinc (Egypt) KW - Oxyrhynchos (Egypt) KW - Antiquities. KW - Book history KW - Antiquity KW - Egypt KW - Oxyrhynchus papyri. KW - Manuscripts. KW - Bahnasā (Egypt) KW - Papyrus grecs KW - Transmission de textes KW - Littérature grecque KW - Livres et lecture KW - Manuscrits KW - Histoire KW - Bahnasā<U+00af> (Egypte) KW - Antiquities KW - Antiquités KW - History. KW - POxy KW - Bahnasa (Egypt) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8605377 AB - Lying now under the sand 300 kilometres south of the coastal metropolis of Alexandria, the town of Oxyrhynchus rose to prominence under Egypt's Hellenistic and Roman rulers. The 1895 British-led excavation revealed little in the way of buildings and other cultural artefacts, but instead yielded a huge random mass of everyday papyri, piled thirty feet deep, including private letters and shopping lists, government circulars, and copies of ancient literature.The surviving bookrolls ? the papyrus rolls with literary texts ? have provided a great deal of information on ancient books, ancient readers, and ancient reading. Examining only those texts that survive in full form in medieval manuscripts, William Johnson has analysed over 400 bookrolls to understand the production, use, and aesthetics of the ancient book. His close analysis of formal and conventional features of the bookrolls not only provides detailed information on the bookroll industry ? manufacture, design, and format ? but also, in turn, suggests some intriguing questions and provisional answers about the ways in which the use and function of the bookroll among ancient readers may differ from modern or medieval practice. Meticulously erudite, this work will be of great importance to all papyrologists, classicists, and literary scholars. ER -