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GEORGE M. PARASSOGLOU
At some time during the second half of the 17th or the first
quarter of the 18th century the papyrus was torn in two. The history
of the second section (now Cambridge Univ. Libr. Add. MS. 4076 =
P. Tjader I, 28B = Ch.L.A. IV, 232) has been fully investigated by its
latest and most able editor, Prof. Jan-Olof Tjider.' The first half of
the papyrus passed into the collection of a Count Lazara of Padua,
where it was again copied and published, this time by Francesco
Scipione Maffei in his Istoria diplomatica, Mantua, 1727, p. 168 no.
XII:C. His transcript, scarcely better than Doni's, indicates that the
large piece now missing from the lower part of the Yale papyrus was
detached (or at least seriously damaged) before Maffei made his
transcript; probably when the papyrus was torn in two. Maffei's
version (again disregarding his arbitrary line divisions) is as follows:...... reliquit, damnum aut detrimentum
susteneas cunctis fes.... ex privilegiis et ignorantiae
Legum frustrationibus..... documentum.... quam autem donationem....... vim et metu et circumscribtionem
5 cessante Deusdedit a Bell........ rio meo
scribendam dictavi in qua........ quam mihi relicta est, et ear intellixsi....... testes ut subscriberent conrogavi.........
Almost a century later Gaetano Marini published his I papiri
diplomatici raccolti ed illustrati, Rome, 1805, a volume which for
150 years remained, despite its shortcomings, the leading work on
the subject. Marini was able to locate only the second half of the
document and have a copy made for him (p. XVII), but failed to see
that it was part of Doni's papyrus.2 For the upper part, which he did
not see, and which he thought a separate document, he relied upon
the transcripts of Doni and Maffei (p. 169 no. CVIII).
The second part of the papyrus was reedited by Prof. Jan-Olof
Tjaider in his monumental Die nichtliterarischen lateinischen Papyri
Italiens aus der Zeit 445 - 700, Acta Instituti Romani Regni Sueciae
19, Lund 1955, I, pp. 389-397 no. 28B.3 He was not aware at the
1. See P. Tjdder I, pp. 389-390; Ch.L.A. IV, 232 introd.
2. This fact was also unnoticed by E. Spangenberg, luris romani tabulae negotiorum
solemnium..., Leipzig, 1822, p. 224. His texts (p. 224 no. 41, and p. 227 no. 44) are
copied from Marini.
3. For photographic reproductions see P. Tjider III, Taf. 97, and Ch.L.A. IV, plate
232.
