25. The Ascension of Isaiah, ch. 2. § 4-4. § 4; the only extant MS of any part of the work in the original Greek. 5th or 6th cent, Amherst Pap. 1 (Grenfell and Hunt, Amherst Papyri, pt. 1.).
C Theological works—
26. Philo, rls 6 r&v Betwy Kdypovduos and epi yevécews “ABEX. 3rd cent. Formerly at Gizeh, now in the Louvre (Scheil, Wém. de la Miss. arch. frangaise au Caire, tom. ix.).
27. Hermas, Pastor, Sim. ii. 7-10, iv. 2-5. 3rd cent. Berl. Mus. Pap. 5513 (Diels and Harnack, Sitzwngsb. d. Berl. Akad. 1891).
28. Hermas, Pastor, Vis. i. 2-8, 12-13; Mand. xi. 1; Sim. 1x.-2; 12)°175730); the last fragment contains a portion of the text hitherto known only in translations. 6th cent. Amherst Pap, 190 (Grenfell and Hunt).
29. Tract on prophecy, including quotation from Hermas, Mand. xi. 9. Harnack suggests that it may be part of the work of Melito rept rpopyrelas. 3rd—4th cent. Oxyrhynchus Pap. 5 (Grenfell and Hunt).
30. Fragment on the higher and lower soul ; according to Harnack, from a Gnostic
Rainer Pap.
Harvard University
5th cent.
Berlin
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work of the Valentinian school. 31rd 4th cent. Oxyrhynchus Pap. 4 (¢.).
31. Theological fragment of uncertain char- acter. 38rd cent. Oxy. Pap. 210 (7.).
32. Early Christian hymn, in irregular metre. 4th cent. Amherst Pap. 2 (Grenfell and Hunt).
32a. Admonitions, perhaps logia, very frag- mentary. 4th cent. Strassburg Pap. 1017. Archiv. f. Papyrusforschung, ii. 217.
33. Basil, Epp. v. 77 E, vi. 79 B, ecexciii. 432 B, el. 239 C, ii. 72 A. 5th. cent, (?) Berlin Museum (Philologus, 1884).
34. Gregory of Nyssa, Life of Moses ; extracts. 5th cent. erlin Museum (Blass, Zett- schr. f. dg. Sprache, 1880).
35. Cyril of Alexandria, de Adoratione, p. 242 E-250 D, 286 B. 6th or 7th cent. In private hands (Bernard, Royal Irish Acad. xxix. pt. 18).
36. Prayer to our Lord for deliverance from sickness and evil spirits, including ele- ments of a creed; regarded by its first editor as drawn from the Gospel of the Egyptians, but without adequate grounds. 4th-5th cent. Gizeh Pap. 10263 (Jacoby, Ein neues Evangelienfragment, Strass- burg, 1900).
37. Fragments of lives of SS. Abraham and Theodora. Louvre Papp. 1704-8 bis (Wessely, Wiener Studien, 1889).
38-44. Unidentified fragments of theological works. 5th-7th cent. Amherst Papp. 194-199, 201 (Grenfell and Hunt).
45-48, Ditto. 6th-7th cent. Brit. Mus. Papp. exiii. 12a-c, 13 (Kenyon, Catal. of Greek Papyri, vol. i.).
49-51. Ditto. 6th-7th cent. Brit. Mus. Papp. 455, 462, 464 (ib. vol. ii.).
52. Ditto. 6th cent.(?) Brit. Mus. Pap. 873 (Catal. of Additions to Dept. of MSS in British Musewm, 1894-99).
53. Hymn or incantation in Christian terms. 7th cent. (?) Brit. Mus. Pap. 1029 verso (unpubl. ).
54, Prayer. 7th cent. (unpubl. ),
55. Unidentified theological fragment. Berlin Museum. (Blass, Zeitschr. f. dg. Sprache, 1881).
56. Liturgical fragments, apparently choir slips. 7th-8th cent. Amherst Pap. 9 (Grenfell and Hunt).
57. Fragments of a Hebrew - Greek Onoma- sticon Sacrum. Heidelberg University Library (Deissmann, Hncycl. Biblica, iil. 3560).
D. Documents illustrative of Church history—
58-60. Reports of appeals by Jews heard by the Roman emperors (Claudius and Trajan). Berl. Pap. 7118 (Gr. Urk. 511), Paris Pap. 68+ Brit. Mus. Pap. 1, Berl. Pap. 8111 (Gr. Urk. 341). See Wilcken, Hermes, xxx. 485ff.; Bauer, Archiv fiir Papyrusforschung, i. 29, who compares these documents to the early Christian Acta martyrwm.
61, 62. Libelli, or certificates of conformity to the State religion, issued by magistrates during the Decian persecution, A.D, 250. Berl. Pap. 7297 (Gr. Urk. 287) and Rainer Pap. (Krebs, Sitzwngsb. d. k. Akad, zu Berlin, 1808, No. 48; Wessely, Anzeiger d. k. k. Akad. in Wien, 3rd Jan. 1894).
63. Letter from a Church dignitary in Rome to a Christian community in the Fayum, containing references to Maximus (bishop
Brit. Mus. Pap. 1176
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PAPYRI
355
of Alexandria, A.D. 264-282) and his suc- cessor Theonas. Amherst Pap. 3a (Gren- fell and Hunt, Amherst Papyri, pt. 1. ; Harnack, Sttzwngsb. d. Berl. Akad., Nov. 1, 1900).
Letter from the presbyter Psenosiris to the presbyter Apollo with regard to a woman sent to the Great Oasis by the prefect of Egypt (perhaps a Christian banished during the persecution of Dio- cletian). Brit. Mus. Pap. 713 (Grenfell and Hunt, Greek Papyri, ii. p. 115; Deissmann, The Epistle of Psenosiris).
Inventory of furniture of a Christian church in the village of Ibion (in the Fayum). 5th-6th cent. Bodl. MS. Gr. th. d. 2 (P) (Grenfell and Hunt, op. cit. p. 160).
Festal letter from a Patriarch of Alex- andria to his clergy. Probably A.D, 577. Brit. Mus. Pap. 729 (ib. p. 163).
Rescript from the emperors Theodosius II. and Valentinian 111. to Apion, bishop of Syene and Elephantine, in reply to his petition for protection. Reference is made to churches on the island of Phile. A.D. 425-450. Leyden Pap. Z (Wilcken, Archiv fiir Papyrusforschung, i. 396 ft.).
Christian amulet, including the Lord’s Prayer. 6th cent. Papyrus found at Heracleopolis in 1899, but since burnt (ib. p. 429 ff., where references are given to other amulets). vy. VALUE OF THE PAPyRI.—The direct value to
biblical science of the papyri_above enumerated
can be briefly estimated. The earlier biblical fragments (those of the 4th cent. or earlier) are too few and too small to be of much textual importance; but so far as they go their evidence in the NT supports the now dominant textual theory associated with the names of Westcott and