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LETTERS OF A.S. HUNT AND O. GRADENWITZ, 1900-1933
According to the British Library catalogue, Add MS 59512, ff. 24213 contain letters sent by A.S. Hunt to H.I. Bell between 1900 and 19331.
However, ff. 24-39 are letters and postcards written by Hunt to O. Gradenwitz in those years. These are published below (1-10, 12, 14-16). We
have added a card sent by Gradenwitz to Bell (11) which would have been
similar to one other sent to Hunt, now presumably lost, and the letter of
Gradenwitz to Hunt (13) to which 14 is a reply2. How these letters came
into Bell’s possession is a matter of speculation, but we think it likely that
he received them from Frieda Gossmann, a niece of Gradenwitz who went
to England as a refugee in 1938 and was in contact with Bell. A letter of
W.G. Waddell to Bell which references Gossmann and the papyrus collection of Gradenwitz is published in the Appendix.
Hunt’s letters 1 and 3-10 acknowledge receipt of publications sent
by Gradenwitz. 1 is dated 30 April 1900; Gradenwitz visited Oxford at
the end of the summer of the same year, at the invitation of Grenfell and
Hunt3. 2 is written in response to congratulations by Gradenwitz on the
award of an honorary doctorate from the University of Königsberg, where
Gradenwitz taught at that time. Conferred (in absentia) on Grenfell and
An edition of the Hunt-Bell correspondence, which begins in 1907, is in progress.
For biographical references to Otto Gradenwitz (Wrocław [Breslau] 1860 – Berlin
1935), see D. HAGEDORN-K.A. WORP, Neues zu der Papyrussammlung Gradenwitz, «ZPE»
128 (1999), pp. 153-160, in part. p. 153 n. 1, and IID., Papyri aus der Sammlung Gradenwitz
im Kloster Beuron, «ZPE» 134 (2001), pp. 163-178, at p. 163 n. 1; also J. HERRMANN, Otto
Gradenwitz, 1860-1936 [sic], in W. DOERR-P.A. RIEDL (edd.), Semper Apertus, Sechshundert Jahre Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg 1386-1986, Heidelberg 1985, pp. 12341245, reprinted in Kleine Schriften zur Rechtsgeschichte (Münch. Beitr. 83), München 1990,
pp. 416-427.
3
See O. GRADENWITZ, Otto Gradenwitz, in H. PLANITZ (ed.), Die Rechtswissenschaft
der Gegenwart in Selbstdarstellungen, Bd. III, Leipzig 1929, pp. 41-88, at p. 52.
1
2
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NIKOLAOS GONIS-SUSAN FOGARTY
Hunt in January 1902, it was the first such honour for Hunt, and the second for Grenfell (after Dublin)4. This letter was written in Egypt, as was
also the case with 3. These two as well as 4-9 contain references to Grenfell
and Hunt’s excavations.
10 is the last letter from the time before WWI, which brought an end
to Hunt’s contacts with Germany until the 1920s. Hunt met Gradenwitz
in Bologna by chance in early 1925, and suggested that Gradenwitz might
visit England5. This took place in spring 1928, and items 11-13 relate to
the visit. 11-15 refer to the Konträrindex6, a reverse index of words found
in papyri, a work rather forgotten today. The last letter (16), written a few
months before Hunt’s death7, seems to be a reply to a letter of condolences
on the death of Hunt’s son; understandably, the tone is more personal than
in the other letters. A personal touch is also evident in 15, where Hunt calls
Gradenwitz ‘my friend’; the preservation of these letters was Gradenwitz’s
token of friendship.
Note on the transcriptions. Line changes in headings and addresses are
indicated by |, page transitions by ||. Not all the details of the postmarks
are given.
1. BL Add MS 59512, f. 24
Oxford, Queen’s College8 | Ap. 30. 1900
Dear Sir
I have just returned from Egypt9, and have found your excellent “Ein-
Hon. LittD awarded by Trinity College, Dublin in 1900.
Letter of Gradenwitz to Bell, dated 22.1.28 (BL Add MS 59525, f. 153). Gradenwitz
enquired whether Bell and Hunt would be in their ‘Wohnorten’ around Easter or Whitsun;
«man könnte dann über manche Papyrusfragen sich aussprechen», he added. Hunt wrote
to Bell about this on 2 February 1928 (BL Add MS 59512, f. 177): «It would be better, as
you say, if Gradenwitz would communicate again a bit later. Do you know what he wants
to talk about at all?». This would have been addressed by the ‘note’ described under 11.
6
O. GRADENWITZ, Heidelberger Konträrindex der griechischen Papyrusurkunden,
Berlin 1931.
7
Hunt died on 18 June 1934.
8
Hunt was a Senior Demy of Lincoln College at that time.
9
Hunt excavated in Tebtunis with Grenfell in 1899/1900.
4
5
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führung in die Papyruskunde”10 awaiting me: I hasten to send you my best
thanks for your very kind present, which I am reading with great interest.
Yours sincerely,
A.S. Hunt
2. BL Add MS 59512, f. 26
Gharak | Fayoum | Feb. 11. 1902
Dear Professor Gradenwitz
Very many thanks for your kind congratulations, and also for your
friendly support which must have contributed in no small degree to the
decision of the Philosophical Faculty to confer upon us such a distinction;
which I need not say is a great || pleasure and encouragement to us.
We have just finished 3 weeks of fairly successful work in the west of
the Fayûm and are now moving south to the neighbourhood of Tebtunis,
where we had such good fortune two years ago11.
Yours sincerely,
A.S. Hunt
3. BL Add MS 59512, f. 27
March 6. 1903.
Dear Prof. Gradenwitz, I hear from England that during my absence you
have been kind enough to send me some papers and one I think some time
ago, and another recently. I shall not have the pleasure of seeing them till
my return, but there is no reason why I should not write to thank you now.
We have been very busy with our excavations, which have been on
the whole attended with good fortune. We began at Hibeh where we added
considerably to the stock of Ptolemaic cartonnage; then tried some other
places in the East bank which were not very productive; and have lately
moved over to Oxyrhynchus where we are again getting good results12.
O. GRADENWITZ, Einführung in die Papyruskunde, I. Erklärung ausgewählter
Urkunden, Leipzig 1900.
11
See EEF Archaeological Report 11 (1901-1902), pp. 3-4; cf. EEF Archaeological
Report 10 (1900-1901), pp. 4-5, for the reference to the previous success at this site.
12
See EEF Archaeological Report 12 (1902-1903), pp. 1-4 (Hibeh), pp. 5-6 (Cynopolis), pp. 6-9 (Oxyrhynchus).
10
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I hope to get back to England about the middle of April13.
Yours sincerely,
14
Behnesa, Beni Mazar .
A.S. Hunt
Postcard addressed “Herrn Prof. Dr. O. Gradenwitz, | Königsberg | an der Universität | Germany”.
The hand responsible for the deletions added: “16/3 Berlin W.” (all are in blue
ink). At the top of the card, a postman at Königsberg (name not deciphered) wrote:
“Nachs(enden) Berlin W. 10 Friedr(ich) | Wilh(elm)str(asse) 21 I | Fried… 16/3”15.
Postmarks: BENI MAZAR 7.II[I].03; [BENI S]OUEF 7.III.03; KÖNIGSBERG 15.3.03; Bestellt vom Postamte 17.3.03.
4. BL Add MS 59512, f. 28
Dear Prof. Gradenwitz, Many thanks for your paper in Dr. Koch’s Festgabe16. I am glad to see that you print a revised text of part of P. Lips.
7217; we have a similar papyrus which will appear in the Oxyr. IV, which is
now just ready to go to press to be printed during our absence in Egypt18.
We start next Tuesday19, and shall be back again I hope about the end of
March20.
Mit herzlichen Gruss
Ihr
A.S. Hunt
The excavations ended on 9 April 1903.
On Beni Mazar, see T.M. HICKEY-J.G. KEENAN, At the Creation. Seven Letters
from Grenfell, 1897, «AnPap» XXVIII (2016), p. 355, n. 11.
15
This was the address of Louise Gradenwitz (1838-1924), Otto’s mother, at that
time; see Berliner Adreßbuch (1906), p. 650.
16
O. GRADENWITZ, Vom Bank- und Geschäftswesen der Papyri der Römerzeit,
in Festgabe der Juristischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin zum 50 jährigen Dienstjubiläum ihres
Vorsitzenden, des Wirklichen Geheimen Rats Dr. Richard Koch, Berlin 1903, pp. 254-274.
17
Ibid., p. 269. Hunt refers to the text of ‘Pap. Lips (Inventarnummer 72)’ revised
by Gradenwitz in his article (to which he was given access before its publication in 1906),
published as P. Lips. I 10 = M. Chr. 189.
18
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Part IV, London 1904. The Oxyrhynchus document
mentioned in the letter is P. Oxy. IV 719, the introduction to which refers to ‘an important
Leipzig papyrus’. Both documents concern the demosiosis of a sale.
19
17 November 1903.
20
The third season at Oxyrhynchus began on 12 December 1903 and ended on 25
February 1904.
13
14
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Queen’s College, Oxford.
Romford Hall Essex21
Nov. 12. 1903.
Postcard addressed “Herrn Prof. Dr. O. Gradenwitz, | Königsberg | an der Universität | Germany”.
The hand responsible for the deletions added “19/11 Berlin” (all in blue ink).
Along the shorter edge of the card, a postman at Königsberg (name not deciphered)
wrote: “Adr(essat) bſ[e]fſ[inde]t sich in | Berlin | G. W. | Friedrich | Wilhelmst(rasse) 21
| 14/11 Blan…”.
Postmarks: ROMFORD NO 12 03; KÖNIGSBERG (PR) 15.11.03.
5. BL Add MS 59512, ff. 29-30
Romford Hall | Essex | March 20. 1904
Dear Professor Gradenwitz,
Very many thanks for your “Laterculi Vocum Latinarum”22 which I
found awaiting me on my return from Egypt. It will be most useful and I
am very grateful for so valuable a present. We have come back rather earlier than usual || this year23, in order to get on as fast as possible with Oxyrh. IV, which I hope will be ready by the beginning of July24. But though
short, the season has I think been a very satisfactory one, and we have
made another large addition to the Oxyrhynchus collection25. A good deal
of ground still remains however, and we shall probably be at work on the
site for two more winters at least26.
I am staying at my home in Essex for a short || time before beginning
work again, but shall be returning to Oxford in a day or two.
Yours sincerely,
Arthur S. Hunt
21
22
23
24
25
26
Hunt’s family home. 5 was sent from the same address.
O. GRADENWITZ, Laterculi Vocum Latinarum, Leipzig 1904.
Cf. above, n. 20.
The preface of the volume is dated April 1904.
See EEF Archaeological Report 13 (1903-1904), pp. 14-17.
There were in fact three more seasons: 1904-1905, 1905-1906 and 1906-1907.
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6. BL Add MS 59512, f. 31
Dear Prof. Gradenwitz, many thanks for your “ʁǗʍȱǗǚljǝǞǏǓ”27 which you
and Dr. Gerhard28 have been kind enough to send me and which I have
found waiting my return. We have just arrived from Egypt after another
successful seasons [sic] work at Oxyrhynchus which still remains unfinished, though I think the better parts are nearly exhausted. The bulk of
the papyri this year are of the III/IV century, but the I cent. is also well
represented29.
With kind regards,
Yours sincerely,
A.S. Hunt
Queen’s College Oxford
12 Ap. 1905
Postcard addressed “Herrn Prof. Dr. O. Gradenwitz, | Königsberg | an der Universität | Germany”.
The hand responsible for the deletions added “14/4 Berlin” (all in blue ink).
Along the shorter edge, a postman at Königsberg wrote: “Nachs(enden) Berlin | Friedrich | Wilhelmst(rasse) 21 | Grimm30 | 14/4”.
Postmarks: ROMFORD AP 12 05; KÖNIGSBERG (PR) 14.04.05; Bestellt vom
Postamte 10 | 15.4.05.
7. BL Add MS 59512, f. 32
Dear Prof. Gradenwitz,
Many thanks for sending me your review of the last parts of the
B.G.U.31. I hear that in future the Berlin texts are to be printed, not auto27
G.A. GERHARD-O. GRADENWITZ, ǃƸƲ ưƸ ƻƴƽƾưƴ, «Philologus» N.F. XVII
(1904), pp. 498-583.
28
Gustav Adolf Gerhard (Konstanz 1878 – Vienna 1918), was active in Heidelberg
in 1901-1913, before he moved to a post at Czernowitz (Chernivtsi); see Neue Deutsche
Biographie 6 (1964), p. 277f.
29
See EEF Archaeological Report 14 (1904-1905), pp. 13-17.
30
Holger Essler, to whom the reading of this name is due, points out that this may
have been Franz Grimm, Briefträger in Königsberg between 1901 and 1906, and refers
to the issues of the Adreßbuch der Haupt- und Residenzstadt Königsberg i. Pr. und der
Vororte for these years, p. 182 and p. 143 respectively.
31
«Berliner Philologische Wochenschrift» XXVI.43 (1906), pp. 1345-1358, on BGU
III, Hefte 11-12 (pp. 320-384), and IV, Hefte 1-3 (pp. 1-96).
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graphed, which will be a great improvement. We leave on the 20th for one
more season at Oxyrhynchus32, where we can hardly expect to find much
more33. Tebtunis II will not be ready till about next June34, and Oxyrh. V
till the autumn35.
Mit herzlichen Gruss
Ihr
A.S. Hunt
Queen’s College, 6 Nov. 1906.
Postcard addressed “Herrn Prof. Dr. O. Gradenwitz, | Königsberg | an der Universität | Germany”.
Postmarks: OXFORD NO 6 06; KÖNIGSBERG 8.11.06.
8. BL Add MS 59512, f. 33
Dear Prof. Gradenwitz,
I have just arrived in Oxford from Egypt36, and found your article on
P. Flor 86 and Oxyr. 508 awaiting me37: for which many thanks.
We have been finding a good deal more at Oxyrhynchus but mostly
of rather later date. I hope we shall get P. Tebt. II published before long38.
How are the Thule papyri progressing39?
With kind regards,
yours sincerely,
A.S. Hunt
Queen’s College Oxford
28 March. 1907.
The sixth and final season at Oxyrhynchus began on 3 December 1906.
This notion is reflected also in EEF Archaeological Report 16 (1906-1907), p. 8,
written after this excavation: «Only a few mounds remained to be cleared. (…) As was to be
expected, those parts of the site which we had left to the last did not prove to be especially
productive, and with regard to the papyri of the Roman period, the results of the last season
do not bear comparison with those of former years».
34
The Tebtunis Papyri, Part II, London 1907; the preface is dated April 1907.
35
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Part V, London 1908; the preface is dated October 1907.
36
The sixth season ended in early March 1907.
37
O. GRADENWITZ, Alius mutuam dedit alius stipulatus est, «ZSS» XXVII (1906),
pp. 336-340.
38
Cf. above, n. 34.
39
The reference is to Gradenwitz’s private collection of papyri; see HAGEDORNWORP, Neues cit. n. 2, p. 158, n. 12, and the Appendix below.
32
33
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NIKOLAOS GONIS-SUSAN FOGARTY
Postcard addressed “Herrn Prof. Dr. O. Gradenwitz, | Königsberg | an der Universität | | Germany”.
The hand responsible for the deletions added “1/4 Berlin W.” (all in blue ink).
Along the shorter edge, the same postman as in 6 wrote: “Nachs(enden) Berlin W. |
Friedr(ich) Wilhelmstr(asse) 21 | Grimm | ¼”.
Postmarks: OXFORD MR 29 07; BERLIN W 2 4 07.
9. BL Add MS 59512, f. 34
Dear Prof. Gradenwitz, I have received today from Mohr40 your new edition of Bruns41 which pleases me very much and for which I am greatly
indebted to you. I am sorry that I did not know before that you were engaged on this or I could have sent you the text of P. Oxy 907 which might
have been useful in connexion with the will of Longinus Castor42. I hope
that Oxyrh VI43 has reached you safely – Grenfell seems to be a little better
this week but improvement is very slow. I have postponed ‘sine die’ the
expedition to Egypt as I have quite enough to do here44.
With best regards and thanks,
yours sincerely,
A.S. Hunt
Oxford, Queen’s Coll.
54 Dec. 1908.
Postcard addressed “Herrn Prof. Dr. O. Gradenwitz | Strassburg in Elsass, |
Mannheimer Str. 3 | Germany”.
Postmark: OXFORD DE 4 08.
Mohr Siebeck publishers, Tübingen.
Fontes Iuris Romani Antiqui / edidit Carolus Georgius Bruns Pars prior, Leges et
Negotia, septimum editit Otto Gradenwitz, Tübingen 1909; the preface is dated November
1908.
42
Ibid., p. 311ff., FIRA III 50 = BGU I 326 = M. Chr. 316, a Greek translation of a
Roman will; cf. J.G. KEENAN, The will of Gaius Longinus Castor, «BASP» 31 (1994), pp.
101-107.
43
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Part VI, London 1908; preface dated September 1908.
44
In a letter dated 29 Oct. 1908, kept in the archives of the Egypt Exploration Society (VIe 15), Hunt refers to Grenfell’s illness and the fact that the proposed expedition
of 1908-1909 had been postponed. A letter of the following month (VIe 17, 11 Nov. 1908)
records that a slight improvement in Grenfell’s health had not been maintained. Hunt never
went back to Egypt.
40
41
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343
10. BL Add MS 59512, f. 35
Dear Prof. Gradenwitz, I owe you many thanks for the simulacra and indices to your edition of Bruns45. The photographs are most successful, and
the index a model of good printing. I was also very glad to receive the envelope of extra plates, which came a few days earlier.
With best regards,
Yours gratefully and sincerely,
A.S. Hunt
Queen’s College: Oxford: 12 Dec. 1912.
Postcard addressed “Herrn Prof. Dr. O. Gradenwitz, | Heidelberg | an der Universität | Germany”.
Postmark: OXFORD 13 DEC 12.
11.
From a letter of Hunt to Bell, dated 15 April 1928 (BL Add MS 59512, f.
180):
‘I also found a note from Gradenwitz, from which I gathered that he
would be arriving in England shortly, but have heard nothing further as to
his movements; have you?’
This ‘note’ does not appear to be extant, but may have been of the
same kind as one sent to Bell (BL Add MS 59525, f. 156)46:
(printed)
Heidelberg, Universität, März 1928
OTTO GRADENWITZ
Ǟ̆ȱǗǞǓǖǙǞʊǞ̃ǔǟǛʐ̃
.....................Bell.......................... Ǟ̆ȡǛǡǓǚNjǚǟǛǙǕʒǍ̃
ǡNjʐǛǏǓǗ
Cf. above, n. 41.
The Greek of Gradenwitz’s prose composition is a combination of formulaic
expressions found in papyri and Modern Greek katharevousa.
45
46
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NIKOLAOS GONIS-SUSAN FOGARTY
ȷǚǏǓǎʍǝǟǗǞʊǝǝǏǞNjǓɪǚ̦ȱǖǙ˸
Conträrindex ǚNjǝ̅ǗǞ̅ǗȱǗǞǙ˩ǜǚNjǚʔǛǙǓǜǕʌǘǏǣǗ,
ǙɔǙǗȾǞǙ˸ Gradenwitz Einführung ȱǔǞǛǓ̅ǗǖʒǗǙǗȱǔǎʒǝǏǣǗǚǏǛǓ
ʌǡǏǓǔNjǕ̅ǜǚǙǓʎǝǏǓǜǖǏǞNjǎǙʔǜǖǙǓȤǜǞǟǍǡʊǗǏǓǜǍǗǣǛʐǐǣǗǕʌǘǏǓǜ
ȱǗǞ̆ǞǙ˸Preisigke Wörterbuch ǖʍǚǏǛǓǕNjǖnjNjǗǙǖʌǗNjǜ
(ɒǗ̦ɿǏɩǏǛǍǏǞǑǖʌǗǙǜ).
ȻǛǛǣǝǙ.
(handwritten)
Many thanks, dear Mr Bell, for your kind informations [sic]. I hope
to arrive at London || immediately after the Eastern [sic] days47, and to meet
you, if not before the 16, certainly on that day.
Yours truly
Gradenwitz
12. BL Add MS 59512, f. 36
6 Chadlington Road48 | Queen’s College, | Oxford 24 April 1928
Dear Professor Gradenwitz,
I am enclosing a list of addenda et corrigenda to Preisigke’s Wörterb.,
mostly from Oxyrh. XVI-XVII, but I am sure that it is by no means complete, and I think that it would be well worth while, if you had time or if
you could find someone to do it for you, to go through the indices of those
two volumes – especially XVI, which contains so many words of the late
Byz. age. Perhaps Mr. Bell has entered them up in his copy of Preisigke
more carefully than I have yet done. I went today to Professor Turner’s49 ||
house but he is still abroad and his servants do not yet know when he will
be back – perhaps not before next week, they say. Mr Streeter50, of Queen’s
16 April 1928; Easter Sunday fell on 8 April. Hunt’s letter of 24 April (12) indicates
that he had not visited Oxford yet.
48
This was Hunt’s marital home from the end of 1919; see also 15 and 16. The address is overwritten on writing paper headed Queen’s College, Oxford.
49
Cuthbert Hamilton Turner (London 1860 – Oxford 1930), ecclesiastical historian
and New Testament scholar, Dean Ireland’s Professor of Exegesis at Oxford; see <https://
doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/36582>.
50
Burnett Hillman Streeter (Croydon 1874 – near Basel 1937), New Testament
scholar, was Chaplain of Queen’s College, Oxford, at that time, later Dean Ireland’s
Professor of Exegesis at Oxford, and then Provost of Queen’s College; see <https://doi.
org/10.1093/ref:odnb/36349>.
47
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College, is also away, in America. Dr. V. Bartlet51, of Mansfield College, is
here and would no doubt be interested if you think it worth while to come
again to see him (his address is 35 Museum road). Or perhaps you might
find someone nearer at hand e.g. Dr. M. R. James52, \Provost of Eton/ who
I should think might very likely be [deletion] in London now. Mr. Bell
could no doubt give you his address: I have no reference book by me here.
Yours sincerely,
A.S. Hunt
Dr. Rendel Harris is too far off (in Manchester)53.
13. Sackler Library, Oxford 303.3 Z.21
Berlin W. | 30 Martin Luther Str. 89 | 13.11.29
Verehrter Herr Hunt,
Als ich Ostern 1928 in Oxford eintraf, hatte ich mir überlegt, ob ich
nicht einen Kranz an Bernard P. Grenfell’s Grabe niederlegen könne54. Wir
sprachen uns dann zu kurz, als dass ich da[ra]uf55 zurückgekommen wäre.
Aber mir geht jetzt durch den Kopf, ob ich nicht jetzt, da der Conträrindex gedruckt werden soll, ihm einen symbolischen Kranz weihen kann, in
|| dem ich dieses Buch seinem Andenken widme. Mein Bedenken dabei ist
nur, ob ein solches, halbmechanisches Hilfsmittel, werth ist, einem so grossen und schöpferischen56 Forscher gewidmet zu werden: darüber möchte
ich um ihre Meinung bitten. Sagen Sie mir, als sein Freund und als der
51
James Vernon Bartlet (Scarborough 1863 – Oxford 1940), ecclesiastical historian,
professor of church history at Mansfield College, Oxford; see <https://doi.org/10.1093/
ref:odnb/30626>.
52
Montague Rhodes James (Goodnestone 1862 – Eton 1936), biblical scholar, Dean
of King’s College, Cambridge, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Provost of Eton
College; see <https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/34152>.
53
James Rendel Harris (Plymouth 1852 – Birmingham 1941), biblical scholar and
palaeographer; see <https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/33726>, and A. FALCETTA, The Daily
Discoveries of a Bible Scholar and Manuscript Hunter: A Biography of James Rendel Harris
(1852–1941), London 2018.
54
Grenfell died on 18 May 1926. He was buried with his mother Alice in Holywell
cemetery, Oxford.
55
Gradenwitz typed ‘daduf’.
56
The choice of the adjective may have been influenced by U. WILCKEN, «Gnomon»
2 (1926), p. 559, who spoke of «eine schöpferische Einheit» with reference to Grenfell and
Hunt.
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Andere der beiden Dioskuren ganz ohne Rücksicht, wie Sie darüber denken. Haben Sie das leiseste Bedenken, so unterlasse ich die Widmung und
begnüge mich damit, Ihnen davon geschrieben zu haben. Dass ich Ihnen
und Bell Unterstützung bei der Sache verdanke, wird selbstverständlich im
Vorwort verzeichnet. ||
Anliegend sende ich Ihnen das Verzeichnis der Stellen, d.h. Worte,
Lemmata, die nach Durchmusterung der neuen Publikationen noch als
durch Sie allein geliefert bleiben und im Index als solche verzeichnet werden. Sollte der Zufall Ihnen noch ein oder das andere Neuwort zugeführt
haben, so haben Sie vielleicht die Güte, es mir bald zu senden, da wie gesagt, der Druck Anfang December beginnen soll.
Auch erlaube ich mir, bei dem Interesse, dass Sie der Sache entgegenbrachten Ihnen Pröbchen von Druckereien zu senden, falls Sie mir etwa
freundlich angeb<e>n wollen, welche Schrift Sie für die Beste halten. Vielleicht sehen Sie || sich auch die Versuche an, die Worte zu kennzeichnen,
bei denen ein neuer drittletzter Buchstabe kommt: ob es besser ist, einen
Schrägstrich zu machen (allerdings kleiner als auf der Probe) oder Fettdruck (der nicht hübsch aussieht). Passt es Ihnen, sich darüber zu aeussern,
so wäre ich Ihnen herzlich dankbar.
Ich bleibe wohl bis zum Jahrsschluss hier, und möchte dann nach Palermo gehen, wohin Riccobono57 mich eingeladen <hat>.–
Ich füge meine Vita58 bei, in der ich auch den Besuch in Oxford erwähne.
Mit vielen Empfehlungen an Mrs. Hunt und besten Grüssen an Sie
selbst und Master Hunt.
Ihr aufrichtig ergeben
Gradenwitz
The letter is typed except for the last two lines. It will have been kept inside Hunt’s
copy of Gradenwitz’s autobiography (see above, n. 3), and is now bound with it.
Salvatore Riccobono (San Giuseppe Jato 1864 – Roma 1958), then Professor of
Roman law at Palermo. For his close association with Gradenwitz, cf. M. AVENARIUS et
al. (edd.), Gradenwitz, Riccobono und die Entwicklung der Interpolationenkritik (Ius
Romanum 5), Tübingen 2018.
58
This is the autobiographical article mentioned above, n. 3. The letter is enclosed
in Hunt’s copy.
57
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14. BL Add MS 59512, f. 37
Queen’s College, | Oxford59. | 1 Dec.1929
Dear Professor Gradenwitz,
I see no objection at all to your kind thought of dedicating the Conträr-index to Grenfell’s memory. He would, I feel sure, have appreciated
the honour.
As for print, I think that the upright type is the more legible, and
I rather prefer the larger of the two (which I have marked with a cross)
though of course it will take up rather more space, which may be an objection. The oblique stroke in front of the third letter, where it first occurs,
seems to me a good practical method, and probably less unsightly, as you
say, || than heavy type.
I have looked through the list of words and made a few notes in pencil. I have also written on the other side a few additions from Ox. XVII,
but probably you already have them.
Many thanks for the copy of your Vita, which I find very interesting.
But I trust that there are yet many years to be added to it.
With kind regards from the family,
yours sincerely,
A.S. Hunt
15. BL Add MS 59512, f. 38
Dear Professor Gradenwitz, I have received your kind gift of the
Konträrindex, which is a most elegant little volume. The type is excellent
and the binding just what I like, neat and strong. It is a book that I shall
always keep within reach as I sit at my desk, and I shall often think with
gratitude of my friend the editor and donor.
With kind regards from my family and very many thanks as well from
myself,
yours sincerely,
A.S. Hunt
6 Chadlington Road | Oxford
26 Feb. 1931.
Postcard addressed “Herrn Professor Dr. O. Gradenwitz, | Berlin W. 30 | Martin
Lutherstr. 89 II | Germany”.
Postmark: OXFORD 26 FEB 1931.
59
Address printed on writing paper.
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16. BL Add MS 59512, f. 39
6 Chadlington Road. | Oxford.
20 Oct.1933
My dear Professor Gradenwitz,
I have been much touched by your very kind letter of sympathy60. It
was too bad of me to spoil your pleasant picture of our happy home; but I
hope nevertheless that if you should ever find your way back to England,
you will not fail to pay Oxford a visit. You would always be very welcome
at this house, where we try to keep cheerful and shall perhaps find the task
|| easier in course of time.
I am just writing again to Frl. Gossmann61. Unfortunately I have so
far failed to hear of a post suitable for her. – A.B. Schwarz62, who has lost
his professorship, at Freiburg, has been here this week.
With many thanks,
yours sincerely,
A.S. Hunt.
APPENDIX
Much has been written on the Gradenwitz papyrus collection63. Gradenwitz died in July of 1935, and a letter from his niece Frieda Gossmann64,
dated 4 October 1935, indicates that she intended to sell the collection and
Hunt’s only child, a son Gerald, born in 1919, had died in May 1932.
Frieda Gossmann (Berlin 1892 – London 1940), a niece of Gradenwitz, was dismissed from her position as schoolteacher in 1933, as a result of the racial laws of the time.
Uncle and niece were very close to each other: Gossmann’s address in Berlin, Martin Luther
Str. 89, was Gradenwitz’s in 1929 (13); the statement in HERRMANN, Kleine Schriften cit. n.
2, p. 416, that Gradenwitz ‘in Einsamkeit starb’ in Berlin, is curious. Gossmann dealt with
Gradenwitz’s papyrus collection after his death; see the Appendix below. A separate study,
currently in preparation, will describe her efforts to leave Germany and her time in Britain.
62
Andreas Bertalan Schwarz (Budapest 1886 – Freiburg 1953), professor at Freiburg, was ousted from his position in May 1933; he obtained a position at the University of
Istanbul the following year. See F. WIEACKER, Andreas Bertalan Schwarz, «ZSS» 71 (1954),
pp. 591-606, and for further references W. HABERMANN, Die deutsche Delegation beim Internationalen Papyrologenkongreß in Oxford im Jahre 1937 und der für das Jahre 1939
geplante Papyrologenkongreß in Wien, «APF» 47 (2001), p. 114 n. 34.
63
See D.S. CRAWFORD, Fuad I University Papyri (Textes et Documents VIII),
Alexandria 1949, introduction, and the articles of HAGEDORN-WORP, Papyri cit. n. 2.
64
Cf. above, n. 61.
60
61
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hoped that the University Library of Heidelberg would buy it65. This did
not happen, and it is unclear whether other institutions in Germany were
approached or expressed an interest66. A letter to Bell from W.G. Waddell67,
then Professor of Classics at Fuad I University, Cairo, attests an overture
made by Gossmann concerning the sale of the collection. Shortly after
Waddell wrote to Bell, Gossmann left for England68. Fuad I University
purchased the collection in the same year.
BL Add MS 59531, ff. 193-194
15, Sh. el Amir Husein, | Zamalek, | Cairo.| 9.iv.1938
Dear Dr. Bell,
How kind of you to write and correct the dating of the “Birds” papyrus69! I wish I could have consulted you earlier. I’ll look up Schubart at
the first opportunity70.
Have you any unpublished papyri that throw light on education in
Graeco-Roman Egypt? I am gathering material for an article for a Centenary Volume71, and I remember your Thonis papyrus72.
Dr. Gossmann has sent me the catalogue of her uncle’s papyri || in
the hope that some institution or person here may purchase them. It is
See HAGEDORN-WORP, Papyri cit. n. 2, pp. 177-178.
Cf. E. KIESSLING, In Memoriam. Otto Gradenwitz als Lexikograph und Papyrologe, «ZSS» 56 (1936), p. 421: «Er hat diese Sammlung, die mit einem Bestand von mehreren
Hundert Texten als die größte Privatsammlung in Deutschland bezeichnet werden kann,
als Mitglied des Papyruskartells erworben. Ein Teil der Sammlung ist veröffentlicht, ein
größer Teil noch nicht entziffert. Hoffentlich gelingt es, diese schöne Sammlung, die zum
größten Teil von Dr. Ibscher konserviert und unter Glas gebracht ist, in deutschem Besitz
zu erhalten». The statement on the size of the collection echoes K. PREISENDANZ, Papyrusfunde & Papyrusforschung, Leipzig 1933, p. 274: «Größte deutsche Privatsammlung». (Part
of KIESSLING’s description found its way into HERRMANN, Kleine Schriften cit. n. 2, p. 424,
but no acknowledgment was made).
67
William Gillan Waddell (Neilston 1884 – Cairo 1945); see Who was Who in
Egyptology3, London 2012, p. 428.
68
On 25 April 1938, by ship from Bremen to Southampton (information from
<http://www.passagierlisten.de>).
69
Perhaps a reference to a publication by Waddell.
70
Three papyri of Aristophanes’ Birds had been published by that time. The
reference may be to P. Berol. inv. 13231 (MP3 00139.000), published by SCHUBART and WILAMOWITZ in BKT V.2, pp. 99-108, no. XVIII.1. It is also possible that Waddell refers to
Schubart’s Griechische Palaeographie or even to Papyri Graecae Berolinenses.
71
Waddell does not seem to have published anything on this subject.
72
SB III 6262 = Sel. Pap. I 133.
65
66
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difficult, as some are already published (Plaumann73 & Sammelbuch74), but
I shall do my best. The first question I am asked is, will she sell individual
papyri, & break the collection? I wonder if America would not offer a
better field?
With kind regards,
Yours sincerely,
W.G. Waddell
P.S. Jouguet & Guéraud’s Manuel d’écolier75 ought to be out any day
now: I am looking forward to it, & it will be useful for my article76.
London
UCL, Department of Greek and Latin
Geneva
Université de Genève
Département des sciences de l’antiquité
Nikolaos Gonis
(n.gonis@ucl.ac.uk)
Susan Fogarty
(susan.fogarty@unige.ch)
ABSTRACT
An annotated edition of the extant correspondence of A.S. Hunt and
O. Gradenwitz and related items: fourteen letters and postcards written by
Hunt to O. Gradenwitz; one letter of Gradenwitz to Hunt; one postcard
sent by Gradenwitz to H.I. Bell; and a letter of W.G. Waddell to Bell.
KEYWORDS: Correspondence, A.S. Hunt, O. Gradenwitz.
73
G. PLAUMANN, Griechische Papyri der Sammlung Gradenwitz, SB Heidelberg
1914, Abh. 15.
74
SB I 5670-5681, 5692-5693, 5806.
75
O. GUÉRAUD-P. JOUGUET, Un livre d’écolier du IIIe siècle avant J.-C. (Publications
de la Société Royale Égyptienne de Papyrologie. Textes et Documents 2), Cairo 1938.
76
We are grateful to Cecilia Mambrioni for re-collating our transcriptions against
the originals in the British Library, to Chiara Scanga for copying letters of Gradenwitz to
Bell, to Holger Essler for helping with the reading of the postal annotations, and to the
referees of the journal for some useful suggestions.
INDICE GENERALE
Chiara D’Agostino
P. Oxy. IV 781 + 782: due frammenti di un codice dell’Odissea
pag.
7
Diletta Minutoli
Due nuovi frammenti letterari laurenziani:
Hom., Ilias II 843-851; Hdt., Historiae VIII 142, 2-3
»
19
Gabriella Messeri
Dai papiri del Kôm Kâssûm: P. Flor. 388/b, Fr. (2) e la
toparchia di Selilais e Sintaphu
»
29
Antonio Stornaiuolo
An Unpublished Manumissio inter amicos
(P. Mich. inv. 5688c)
»
43
Hermann Harrauer
Araber vor der arabischen Zeit in Ägypten
»
61
Giuseppe Ucciardello
P. Berol. inv. 21134: frammento di prosa (oratoria o retorica?)
»
71
Menico Caroli
P. Lond. inv. 2110 recto (= SB XX 14599):
riedizione e commento
»
75
Ignacio Simón Cornago
Las cartas ibéricas sobre plomo
»
95
Diletta Minutoli
Un amuleto magico proveniente da Antinoupolis
»
127
Lucio Del Corso-Rosario Pintaudi
Quattro iscrizioni funerarie greche dalla necropoli
romana di Antinoupolis
»
137
Rosario Pintaudi-Matteo Borrini-Pier Paolo Mariani
ƮǏ̅ǛǍǓȋǚNjǕNjǓȋǞLjȋ – Giorgio il lottatore.
Il suo sarcofago ed il suo femore
»
151
Federico Favi
Note linguistiche a P. Ant. I 15 (com. adesp. fr. 1084 K.-A.)
»
163
Konstantine Panegyres
ƯǓNj ǠǟǕdžǝǝǣ + Dat.: A Footnote
»
169
Roberto Mascellari
Sicurezza, osservanza delle regole, procedure di polizia
nell’Egitto romano: il ruolo degli ufficiali di villaggio
nella presentazione di petizioni
»
171
Hermann Harrauer-Istvan Kóvacs
Kleine Anmerkungen zu ǔNjǛNjǔdžǕǕǓǙǗ. Erweiterte Dokumentation
»
211
Hamada Kellawy
Some Decorated Blocks from Antinoupolis
»
225
Moamen Mohamed Othman-Mohamed Abdelrahman
Ibrahim Abdel–Fattah-Eid Mertah
The Engraved Glass Heart of the Lady Nfrw ୁୁୁϜ
Multi-Visualization of an Inscribed Amulet
»
235
Emanuela Borgia
Aswan Thin-Walled Figure Painted Bowls from Antinoupolis
»
249
Marcello Spanu
Una singolare lucerna a forma di barca da Antinoupolis
»
261
Ahmed Khairy-Abeer F. Elhagrassy-Naglaa Mahmoud Ali
The Effect of Oxygen Absence on Ancient Egyptian Pigments.
Sterilization of an Ancient Painted Wooden Object Using Anoxia
»
289
Oliver Hahn-Ira Rabin-Carsten Wintermann
Ink Characterization, Performed in Biblioteca Medicea
Laurenziana (September 2018)
»
301
Francesco Pagnotta
Il concorso di Greco a Palermo del 1899: nuovi documenti
»
317
Nikolaos Gonis-Susan Fogarty
Letters of A.S. Hunt and O. Gradenwitz, 1900-1933
»
335
Davide Astori
Julius Richard Penndorf, il papirologo “dimenticato”
»
351
DOCUMENTI PER UNA STORIA DELLA PAPIROLOGIA
Rachel Yuen-Collingridge
Constantine Simonides and Papyrus Fragments of Gemistus
Pletho’s ƷNjǍǓǔʉǕǦǍǓNjǞ̅ǗȡǚʑƱǣǛǙdžǝǞǛǙǟǖdžǍǣǗ
»
369
LIBRI RICEVUTI
»
387
INDICI
»
393
a cura di Diletta Minutoli
Stampato su carta Palatina
della Cartiera Miliani-Fabriano
da Creative 3.0 s.r.l., Reggio Calabria 2019
Susan Fogarty