Post #1441601

2026-04-19 23:15 UTC

Niche question: Does anyone on here know whether late #antique #papyrus documents were ruled? Images and references much appreciated! #palaeography @medievodons @histodons

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@aaronm@mastodon.cc 2026-04-19 23:30

@litteracarolina@mastodon.online @medievodons@a.gup.pe @histodons@a.gup.pe I always go to the BAV (surprising!) for papyrus, and none of them that I have seen there have traces of ruling. https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/fonds/Pap.Vat.lat.html is a good collection to check

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@chaprot@pouet.chapril.org 2026-04-20 13:16

@litteracarolina@mastodon.online Check out this codex, it's been made of both parchment and papyrus (I think it's the only one we know of this kind), so if there's a papyrus where you'd expect to find ruling (esp. on the side where the fiber is vertical), it would be this one, aaaaaand… I don't think there is: https://florus.miraheze.org/Special:Redirect/page/564

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@leseexistenz@hcommons.social 2026-04-20 18:00

@litteracarolina@mastodon.online @medievodons@a.gup.pe @histodons@a.gup.pe Too early, I suppose, but anyway: Romano FP, Puglia E, Caliri C, Pavone DP, Alessandrelli M, Busacca A, Fatuzzo CG, Fleischer KJ, Pernigotti C, Preisler Z, Vassallo C, Verhasselt G, Miliani C, Ranocchia G. Layout of ancient Greek papyri through lead-drawn ruling lines revealed by Macro X-Ray Fluorescence Imaging. Sci Rep. 2023 Apr 21;13(1):6582. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-33242-8. PMID: 37085549; PMCID: PMC10121553.

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