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"Graeske Papyrusdokumenter fra
Ptolemaeertiden", Tage Larsen,
Copenhague 1939 : [recenzja]
The Journal of Juristic Papyrology 3, 147
S U R V E Y OF T H E L I T E R A T U R E C H I E F L Y F R O M 1945 U N T I L 1949
S O U R C E S
M. DAVID and R. A. VAN GRONINGEN, Papyrological Primer.
Second [English] edition, Leyden 1946.
After an introduction on papyrology, a brief history of this science and a survey of the relevant publications, the authors go through the public administration,.the religious life, the forms of the documents, the method of their dating, the calendar, the monetary system, the metrology and bibliography. They give then a series of 22 texts provenient from different discoveries, 85 texts referring to different fields of papyrology, supplying them with an introduction and with notes. The majority of the texts are of legal character. The book concludes with a collection of tant terms referring to public institutions, as well as of impor-tant terms referring to private law.
TAGE LARSEN, Graeske Papyrusdokumenter fra Ptolemaeertiden, Copenhague, Gyldendal 1939 (Selskabet til Historiske
Kildes-krifters Oversaettelse XII. 3).
It is a Danish translation of 101 papyri of the Ptolemaic pe-riod provided with an introduction and with notes. The texts refer to historical events, administration, law, law-courts and police; army, agriculture, fiscal system; .monopolies, commerce and trans-port, religion and private life. A general introduction gives to non specialized readers informations necessary for the understanding of the papyri.
A. CALDERINI, Papiri latini. Appunti delie lezioni di
papiro-logia (Univ. catt. del Sacro Cuore), Milano 1945.
This book contains a collection of 65 papyri, among them many interesting for jurists.
