Ancient Greek Manuscripts
on the WWW
 
Greek Manuscripts on the Internet
This page provides information on organizations and websites dedicated to the study of ancient Greek manuscripts.
  1. The Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies at Ohio State University is the only comprehensive research facility for the study of Greek and Latin inscriptions and manuscripts in the United States.
The Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (Daniel B. Wallace, Executive Director)
  1. The Chester Beatty Library's collection includes papyrus manuscripts, rolls, codices and individual documents and ostraca, from Pharaohic, Graeco-Roman and Coptic Egypt ranging in date from 1800 BC to AD 800,.
  1. Peter van Minnen provides a little history and a discussion of methods used for dating New Testament manuscripts.
  1. The Digital Nestle-Aland is the electronic form of the standard scholarly edition of the Greek New Testament.
  1. Search the Duke Papyrus Archive, a repository of papyrii covering a wide range of topics and time periods. Information on the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri (DDBDP) can also be found at http://idp.atlantides.org/trac/idp/wiki/DDBDP.
  1. While this site is not affiliated with the Encyclopedia of New Testament Textual Criticism, Rich Elliott has been inspired by that project and has done an admirable job of compiling a wealth of information about a wide range of biblical manuscripts.
  1. While this site with images of the Greek Papyri of the Heidelberg Collection is in German, English speakers can still benefit greatly from the excellent photographs of the papyri.
Institute for New Testament Textual Research (Institut für Neutestamentliche Textforschung, INTF)
  1. The institute describes its mission as “to research the textual history of the New Testament and to reconstruct its Greek initial text on the basis of the entire manuscript tradition, the early translations and patristic citations.”
  1. A wonderful site with images of significant manuscripts, discussions of textual criticism, and much more
  1. Most of the manuscripts at this site (with complete images!) are not Greek, but some are. The site allows you to leaf through the pages of the available manuscripts.
  1. David Robert Palmer Has provided a useful listing of New Testament manuscipts much like the one found at the back of the UBS Greek New Testament, but with a number of added features, including links to images of the manuscripts.
  1. This site dedicated to the archaeological work at Oxyrhnchus contains photographs of the manuscrupts found there.
  1. Papyri.info provides a Papyrological Navigator that aggregates and displays information from the Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS), the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri (DDbDP), the Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyrusurkunden Ägyptens (HGV), and Bibliographie Papyrologique (BP). It also provides links to Trismegistos (See further below).
  1. The University of Oxford houses websites for both the Oxyrhnchus excavations and the work at Herculaneum, both of which include high quality images of the papyrii found at those sites.
  1. Dedicated to a single manuscript, this site provides images and descriptions of the fragmentary codex of an otherwise unknown gospel.
  1. These pages contain information about the Tebtunis Papyri, the papyrus documents that were found in the winter of 1899/1900 at the site of ancient Tebtunis, Egypt. The site contains images of many of these manuscripts.
  1. An interdisciplinary portal of papyrological and epigraphical resources dealing with Egypt and the Nile valley between roughly 800 BC and AD 800
  1. While little of the University of Michigan’s Papyrus Collection is visible online, the web site does provide an interesting basic introduction to papyrology.
  1. Princeton has made available a collection of images of papyri from a wide range of times and places.