Bless you! I saw a copy on Peter's shelf, and was full of envy. Can't
wait to see it! -w.
On Sep 26, 2007, at 12:22 PM, Kathleen McNamee wrote:
Bless you, William! I got the author's copies last Friday and have
just in the last hour put your copy in the mail!
KK
On Sep 26, 2007, at 12:11 PM, William Johnson wrote:
PAPY-L
Dear colleagues,
I'm pleased to announce availability of American Studies in
Papyrology #45. Order directly from David Brown/Oxbow at:
http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/62017
Annotations in Greek and Latin Texts from Egypt
edited by K McNamee
This Corpus of Marginal and Interlinear Notes from the Greek and
Latin literary papyri of Egypt is arranged alphabetically by
author (from Aeschylus to Xenophon) and the papyri themselves
identified by their "Mertens-Pack 3" number (MP3); the Adespota,
both poetry and prose, follow. The section with Latin is
considerably shorter, as might be expected in the Greek-speaking
East, and the notations to Cicero, Juvenal, and the legal texts
are more often in Greek than Latin. A series of nine introductory
essays sets the process of annotating back into the various
contexts from which they derive - the scholar's study, the
teacher's schoolroom, etc. - and examines the ways in which
annotations were inscribed into the rolls and codices. The last
three essays (Part Three. "Select Annotated Texts") pay special
attention to the copious tradition of annotations in Archaic Lyric
and Iambic (Pindar, Bacchylides, Alcaeus, and Hipponax),
Hellenistic Poetry (Callimachus and Theocritus), and Prose
authors, distilling from the jejune catalogue entries the complex
relationships between commentaries and the annotations. The volume
closes with a comprehensive list of annotated papyri (from MP3 23
to 2866, plus a few un-catalogued items) that summarises the
catalogue; with a bibliography and a concordance between edition
and MP3 number; and with indices (Greek words, Latin words, and
hybrid Greek/Latin forms and a general index of authors and topics
covered). 594p, 33 b/w pls. (American Studies in Papyrology 45,
American Society of Papyrologists 2007)
ISBN-13: 978-0-9700591-7-8
ISBN-10: 0-9700591-7-5
Hardback. Price US $125.00
William A. Johnson
Secretary-Treasurer, ASP (http://papyrology.org)
