Papyrus collection of the Montserrat monastery

The papyrus collection of the Montserrat Monastery is a collection of over 1700 fragments of papyri and parchment manuscripts from the 3rd to 10th centuries mostly in Greek , but also in Coptic , Demotic , Arabic and Latin languages . It is located in the Scriptorium Biblicum et Orientale of the Montserrat monastery near Barcelona .

In 1928 the biblical theologian Father Bonaventura Ubach brought 200 papyrus fragments from Egypt and founded the first private papyrus collection in Spain in the monastery. In 1998 the theologian Father Ramón Roca-Puig brought his extensive collection Collecció Sant-Lluca Evangelista with over 1500 fragments to the monastery. This contains some important New and Old Testament papyri from the 3rd and 4th centuries. After his death in 2001 this was transferred to the inventory of the Scriptorium as Papyri Montserratenses-Roca (P. Monts. Roca) .

Manuscripts
(older signatures previously P. Barc. Inv. And P. Monts. II )

• P. Monts. Roca 1 , around 200, Gospel of Matthew, ⁶⁷ ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$
• P. Monts. Roca 46, 47 , Old Testament, ⁹⁶⁷ ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$
• P. Monts. Roca 83 , 3rd or 5th / 6th Jhd., Gospel of John, ⁸³ ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$

literature

• Sofía Torallas Tovar, Klaas A. Worp : To the Origins of Greek Stenography. P. Monts. Roca I . Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat, Barcelona 2006.
• Sofía Torallas Tovar: Biblica Coptica Monserratensia. P. Monts. Roca II. Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat, Barcelona 2007.
• Sofía Torallas Tovar, Juan Gil: Hadrianvs. P. Monts. Roca III. Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat, Barcelona 2010.
• Sofia Torallas Tovar, Klaas A. Worp: Greek papyri from Montserrat. P. Monts. Roca IV. (= Scripta Orientalia 1). Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat, Barcelona 2014.
  • Review by W. Andrew Smith .

Web links

• The Abadia de Montserrat Collection
• Manuscripts trismegistos