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Introduction
List of books (P.Vars. 5v = CPF 1.1.1.4). Papyrus strip (6 x 31 cm) containing part of a list of books, written on the verso of a census list (P.Vars. 5r). It is a summary list recording only authors and numbers (of rolls), without any indication of titles, but providing an account of opistographs (cf. Manfredi 1983), perhaps as an indication of quality or value. This could lead us to think that the text was written by a librarian, being an inventory or a note related to an order. The indications of the opistographs are always marked with opening or closing parentheses and sometimes added as interlinear annotations. The list appears to be divided into thematic sections (then in alphabetic order): a series of philosophers (up to ll. 19-22, where the general total of 142 is followed by the partial account of opistographs) is followed by a group of physicians (ll. 23-27) for a total of 296 rolls (l. 28), of which 46 opistographs (l. 29). On the succession philosophers-physicians in Callimachus' Pinakes cf. O. Regenbogen, RE 20.2, 1960, 1419-21. The traditional interpretation, which looked at the authors recorded at ll. 20-22 as physicians (as of Manteuffel 1933 up to the CPF edition), has been recently challenged by Puglia 1996 and 1997, who demonstrated (also after re-calculating the numbers of rolls) that those names belong to philosophers. The medical authors mentioned by this text are therefore only Herasistratus, Thessalus, and Themison.
(This papyrus has been digitally edited by Nicola Reggiani as part of the Project "DIGMEDTEXT - Online Humanities Scholarship: A Digital Medical Library based on Ancient Texts" (ERC-AdG-2013, Grant Agreement no. 339828) funded by the European Research Council at the University of Parma (Principal Investigator: Prof. Isabella Andorlini). The digital edition is mostly based on the previous editions (ed.pr. = G. Manteuffel, "Aegyptus" 13, 1933, pp. 367-73, then P.Vars. 5v; ed.alt. = M. Manfredi - I. Andorlini - A. Linguiti, CPF I 1.1 4; ed.ter. = E. Puglia, PapLup 5, 1997, pp. 131-5; corr. E. Puglia, ZPE 111, 1996, pp. 27-30; R. Otranto, Liste 17).)
[ -ca.?- ] Γεμείνου vac. ? α´
[ -ca.?- ] Διογένο(υς) Βαβυ̣λω(νίου) vac. ? α´
[ -ca.?- ] ̣ vac. ? γ´
5[ -ca.?- Εὐκλείδου](*) [Σ]ω̣κρατικοῦ vac. ? α´
[ -ca.?- ] ̣ vac. ? β´
[ -ca.?- ] vac. ? θ´
[ -ca.?- ] vac. ? α´
[ -ca.?- Ζήνωνος](*) Ταρσέως vac. ? ε´
10[ -ca.?- Ζήνωνος](*) [Κ]ι̣τ̣ιέως vac. ? γ´
[ -ca.?- ] ̣ Ἱεροκλέους vac. ? θ´ ((parens-punctuation-opening)) ὀπιστόγρ[(αφα)]
[ -ca.?- Ξενοφῶν]τ̣ο̣(ς)(*) vac. ? κθ´ ((parens-punctuation-opening)) ὧν ὀπιστ̣ό[γρ(αφα)] γ´(*)
[ -ca.?- ]ου vac. ? ζ´
[ -ca.?- ] ̣ vac. ? α´
15[ -ca.?- ] vac. ? λβ´
[ -ca.?- ] vac. ? α´
[ -ca.?- Χρυσίππου](*) vac. ? ιγ´ ((parens-punctuation-opening)) ὧν ὀπισ[τόγρ(αφον)] α´(*)
[ -ca.?- ]⟦ρμβ⟧
[ -ca.?- (γίνεται) τὰ τῶν](*) [φι]λοσόφων vac. ? ρμβ´
20[ -ca.?- vac. ? ((parens-punctuation-opening)) ὧν ὀ]πιστόγρ(αφα)(*) Γλαύκωνο(ς) α´ ((parens-punctuation-closing))
[ -ca.?- vac. ? ((parens-punctuation-opening)) Ἱεροκλέ]ους(*) θ´ Ξενοφῶντο(ς) vac. ? β´ (γίνεται(?)) ((parens-punctuation-closing))
[ -ca.?- vac. ? ((parens-punctuation-opening)) καὶ](*) Χρυσίππου α´ (γίνεται) vac. ? ιδ´ ((parens-punctuation-closing))
[ -ca.?- Ἐρασιστράτ]ο̣υ̣(*) β´ \ ((parens-punctuation-opening)) ὀπιστόγρ(αφα) ((parens-punctuation-closing)) /(*) Θεσσαλο(ῦ) α´
[ -ca.?- Θεμίσωνο(ς)](*) θ´ ⟦α⟧ ((parens-punctuation-opening)) ὀπιστόγρ(αφα) ((parens-punctuation-closing)) (*)
25[ -ca.?- -ca.?- ]κ̣ο̣(ς(?)) Νάρθηξ(*) α´
[ -ca.?- (γίνεται) ι]γ´(*)
26a vac. ? ((parens-punctuation-opening)) ὧν ἐν ὀπιστογρ(άφοις)(*) Ἐ̣ρ̣ασ̣ι̣στ[ράτου] [β´ ((parens-punctuation-closing)) ](*)
26b vac. ? ((parens-punctuation-opening)) Θεμίσωνο(ς) θ´ [(γίνεται) ια´ ((parens-punctuation-closing)) ](*)
[ -ca.?- ]υτο τὰ προκ(είμενα) (γίνεται)(*)
[ -ca.?- ] vac. ? σϙ̣ϛ̣´(*)
[ -ca.?- ((parens-punctuation-opening)) ](*) ὧ̣ν ὀπιστόγρ(αφα) μϛ´ ((parens-punctuation-closing))
30[ -ca.?- τῶ]ν(*) προκειμένων
[ -ca.?- ἐσ]τ̣ι̣ καὶ(*) ἕτερα
[ -ca.?- -ca.?- ] ̣νο( )(*) φιλοσόφου α̣ν̣α̣ ̣ε ̣ ̣
[ -ca.?- ] ̣ Ἁρπογρατίωνο(ς) Traces
[ -ca.?- ] ̣ρ̣του(*)
35[ -ca.?- ] ̣ ̣
[ -ca.?- ] ̣ ̣ ̣ vac. ? ξθ´
Apparatus
^ 1. Puglia 1996 : [ -ca.?- ] prev. ed.
^ 5. Puglia 1996 : [ -ca.?- ] prev. ed.
^ 9. Puglia 1996 : [ -ca.?- ] prev. ed.
^ 10. Puglia 1996 : [ -ca.?- ] prev. ed.
^ 12. Puglia 1996 : [ -ca.?- ] ̣ε̣ ̣ ̣ prev. ed.
^ 12. Puglia 1996 : prev. ed.
^ 17. Puglia 1996 : [ -ca.?- ] prev. ed.
^ 17. Puglia 1996 : ὀπισ[τόγρ(αφα)] prev. ed.
^ 19. Puglia 1996 : [ -ca.?- ] prev. ed.
^ 20. Puglia 1996 : [ -ca.?- ὀ]πιστογρ(αφ ) prev. ed.
^ 21. Puglia 1996 : [ -ca.?- ]ους prev. ed.
^ 22. Puglia 1996 : [ -ca.?- ] prev. ed.
^ 23. Puglia 1997 : [ -ca.?- ]υς prev. ed.
^ 23. Puglia1997 : [ -ca.?- ] vac. ? ((parens-punctuation-opening)) ὀπιστόγρ(αφα) vac. ? ((filler-extension)) ((parens-punctuation-closing)) prev.ed. (as line 22bis)
^ 24. Puglia 1997 : [ -ca.?- ] ̣ ̣ vac. ? prev. ed.
^ 24. Puglia 1997 : prev. ed.
^ 25. Puglia 1997 : [ -ca.?- ]κ̣ο̣(υ(?)) νάρθηξ prev. ed.
^ 26. Puglia 1997 : [ -ca.?- ]τ̣ο̣ ̣ prev. ed.
^ 26a. Puglia 1997 : ὀπιστογρ(άφῳ) prev. ed.
^ 26a. Puglia 1997 : prev. ed.
^ 26b. Puglia 1997 : ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ prev. ed.
^ 27. Puglia 1997 : Traces (or (γίνεται(?))) prev. ed.
^ 28. corr. ex σο̣ϛ̣´
^ 29. Puglia 1997 : [ -ca.?- ] prev. ed.
^ 30. Puglia 1997 : [ -ca.?- ]ν prev. ed.
^ 31. Puglia 1997 : [ -ca.?- ] ̣ ̣ (or [ -ca.?- ἐσ]τ̣ι̣) καὶ (or [ -ca.?- ]τ̣ι̣κα̣) prev. ed.
^ 32. Puglia 1997 : [ -ca.?- ] ̣νο(υ(?)) prev. ed.
^ 34. or [ -ca.?- ]ε̣ρ̣του, or [ -ca.?- ] ̣ρ̣ι̣του, or [ -ca.?- ]α̣υ̣του
Notes
- 19.
The total of the philosophers' rolls is far huger than the items listed in the extant column. Puglia 1997 reasonably argues that the missing philosophers' rolls must have been recorded in a previous column.
- 20-22bis.
These four lines are grouped together by means of huge parentheses on their sides.
- 25.
Νάρθηξ was quite a common title for pharmacological works. Manfredi-Andorlini-Linguiti 1989 argued that here it couldn't be so, since the list never provides actual titles, and they interpreted it as a common word for "container, box", resolving the previous word with a genitive indicating the author's name. Puglia 1997 suggested that this is unlikely, since it would have been rather inaccurate to count a box within a precise catalogue listing numbers of rolls. His re-calculation of the amounts makes it clear that it should have been the mention of one work, likely anonymous (thence the nominative proposed for the previous word, indicating just the genre, e.g. ἰατρι]κ̣ό̣(ς) or Ἐμπειρι]κ̣ό̣(ς) ).
- 26.
This is the exact total of the medical works, followed by the sub-total of the opistographs.
- 26a-b.
These two lines are grouped together to the right of l. 26, by means of parentheses on both sides.
- 27-8.
This is the total of the "previous" (τὰ προκείμενα) rolls, including the 142 philosophers' ones and the 13 medical works. It is apparent, as Puglia 1997 argued, that more titles, belonging to different genres, must have been recorded in previous columns. The same applies to the general sub-total of opistographs (l. 29).