Editing Papyrus (section)

== Collections of papyrus ==
[[File:HeraclesPapyrus.jpg|thumb|right|The [[Heracles Papyrus]]]]
* [[Amherst Papyrus|Amherst Papyri]]: this is a collection of [[William Tyssen-Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney]]. It includes biblical manuscripts, early church fragments, and classical documents from the Ptolemaic, Roman, and Byzantine eras. The collection was edited by [[Bernard Grenfell]] and [[Arthur Surridge Hunt|Arthur Hunt]] in 1900–1901. It is housed at [[the Morgan Library & Museum]] (New York).
* [[Papyrus Collection of the Austrian National Library|Archduke Rainer Collection]], also known as the Vienna Papyrus Collection: is one of the world's largest collections of papyri (about 180,000 objects) in the [[Austrian National Library#Papyrus collection and Papyrus Museum|Austrian National Library]] of Vienna.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.onb.ac.at/en/departments/papyrussammlung |title = Department for Papyri |website = Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek}}</ref>
* [[Berlin]] Papyri: housed in the [[Egyptian Museum of Berlin|Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection]].<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/aegyptisches-museum-und-papyrussammlung/home/| title = Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung|website = Staatliche Museen zu Berlin}}</ref>
* [[Berliner griechische Urkunden|Berliner Griechische Urkunden]] (BGU): a publishing project ongoing since 1895
* [[Bodmer Papyri]]: this collection was purchased by [[Martin Bodmer]] in 1955–1956. Currently, it is housed in the [[Bodmer Library|Bibliotheca Bodmeriana]] in [[Cologny]]. It includes Greek and [[Copt]]ic documents, classical texts, biblical books, and writing of the early churches.
* [[Chester Beatty Papyri]]: a collection of 11 codices acquired by [[Alfred Chester Beatty]] in 1930–1931 and 1935. It is housed at the [[Chester Beatty Library]]. The collection was edited by [[Frederic G. Kenyon]].
* Colt Papyri, housed at [[the Morgan Library & Museum]] (New York).
* Former private collection of [[Grigol Tsereteli]]: a collection up to one hundred Greek papyri, currently housed at [[Georgian National Center of Manuscripts|Georgian National Centre of Manuscripts]].
* The [[Herculaneum papyri]]: these papyri were found in Herculaneum in the eighteenth century, carbonized by the eruption of [[Mount Vesuvius]]. After some tinkering, a method was found to unroll and to read them. Most of them are housed at the [[Naples National Archaeological Museum]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Diringer |first=David |author-link=David Diringer |title=The Book Before Printing: Ancient, Medieval and Oriental |publisher=Dover Publications |place=New York |year=1982 |url=https://archive.org/details/bookbeforeprinti0000diri/page/252 |page=[https://archive.org/details/bookbeforeprinti0000diri/page/252 252 ff] |isbn=0-486-24243-9 }}</ref>
* The [[Heroninos Archive]]: a collection of around a thousand papyrus documents, dealing with the management of a large Roman estate, dating to the third century CE, found at the very end of the 19th century at [[Kasr El Harit]], the site of ancient {{ill|Theadelphia|de}}, in the [[Faiyum]] area of Egypt by Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt. It is spread over many collections throughout the world.
* The Houghton's papyri: the collection at [[Houghton Library|Houghton Library, Harvard University]] was acquired between 1901 and 1909 thanks to a donation from the [[Egypt Exploration Fund]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/collections/papyrus/bibliographies.cfm |title=Digital Papyri at Houghton Library, Harvard University |access-date=30 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120403025212/http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/collections/papyrus/bibliographies.cfm |archive-date=3 April 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> 
* [[Martin Schøyen Collection]]: biblical manuscripts in Greek and Coptic, [[Dead Sea Scrolls]], classical documents
* [[University of Michigan Papyrus Collection|Michigan Papyrus Collection]]: this collection contains above 10,000 papyri fragments. It is housed at the [[University of Michigan]].
* [[Oxyrhynchus Papyri]]: these numerous papyri fragments were discovered by Grenfell and Hunt in and around [[Oxyrhynchus]]. The publication of these papyri is still in progress. A large part of the Oxyrhynchus papyri are housed at the [[Ashmolean Museum]] in [[Oxford]], others in the [[British Museum]] in [[London]], in the [[Egyptian Museum]] in [[Cairo]], and many other places.
* [[Princeton Papyri]]: it is housed at the [[Princeton University]]<ref>{{cite web| url = http://libweb.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/aids/papyri/digitalimages.html| title = Digital Images of Selected Princeton Papyri| access-date = 13 December 2008| archive-date = 1 December 2008| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081201120011/http://libweb.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/aids/papyri/digitalimages.html| url-status = dead}}</ref>
* Papiri della Società Italiana (PSI): a series, still in progress, published by the Società per la ricerca dei Papiri greci e latini in Egitto and from 1927 onwards by the succeeding Istituto Papirologico "G. Vitelli" in [[Florence]]. These papyri are situated at the institute itself and in the [[Biblioteca Laurenziana]].
* [[Rylands Papyri]]: this collection contains above 700 papyri, with 31 ostraca and 54 codices. It is housed at the [[John Rylands University Library]].
* Tebtunis Papyri: housed by the [[Bancroft Library]] at the [[University of California, Berkeley]], this is a collection of more than 30,000 fragments dating from the 3rd century BCE through the 3rd century CE, found in the winter 1899–1900 at the site of ancient [[Tebtunis]], Egypt, by an expedition team led by the British papyrologists [[Bernard Pyne Grenfell|Bernard P. Grenfell]] and [[Arthur Surridge Hunt|Arthur S. Hunt]].<ref>{{cite web| url = http://tebtunis.berkeley.edu/| title = The Center for the Tebtunis Papyri}}</ref>
* Washington University Papyri Collection: includes 445 manuscript fragments, dating from the first century BCE to the eighth century AD. Housed at the [[Washington University Libraries]].
* Yale Papyrus Collection: housed by the [[Beinecke Library]], it contains over six thousand inventoried items. It is cataloged, digitally scanned, and accessible online.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-12-14 |title=The Yale Papyrus Collection |url=https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/collections/highlights/yale-papyrus-collection |access-date=2023-09-17 |website=Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |language=en}}</ref>