Object / witness
Venus Tablet · K.160
K.160
A Nineveh copy preserving older Venus observations and omen material.
British Museum
Seventh century BCE · copy
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Object / witness
Sumerian Flood Tablet · Nippur
CBS10673 + CBS10867 · CDLI P265876
A surviving Sumerian flood witness joined with CBS10867.
Penn Museum
About 1650 BCE · museum dating
Witness lead
Akkadian Nippur flood fragment
CBS13532 · CDLI P268565 · Wasserman Ms. J
An Akkadian flood witness with a matching Penn Museum public object record.
Penn Museum
1400–1100 BCE · museum manufacture range
Object / witness
Sumerian King List · Weld-Blundell prism
AN1923.444
A named witness to the Sumerian King List.
Ashmolean Museum
Chronology not yet assigned in this catalogue
Inscribed artifact
Dendera Zodiac
E 13482 · D 38 · CM 464 · BN 6
An astronomical relief with inscriptions and iconography.
Musée du Louvre
About 50 BCE · museum dating
Object / witness
Nag Hammadi Codex II · Thomas and the Secret Book of John
Codex II · current local shelfmark to confirm
A codex route connecting the Gospel of Thomas and a witness to the Apocryphon of John.
Coptic Museum · custody confirmation requested
Chronology not yet assigned in this catalogue
Object / witness
Damascus Document · Cairo Genizah witness
T-S 10K6
A medieval Cairo Genizah witness to the Damascus Document.
Cambridge University Library
Chronology not yet assigned in this catalogue
Object / witness
Damascus Document · Cairo Genizah witness
T-S 16.311
A medieval Cairo Genizah witness to the Damascus Document.
Cambridge University Library
Chronology not yet assigned in this catalogue
Witness lead
Book of Giants · Qumran witness
4Q203
Fragmentary witness; a translated composition is not a physically complete scroll.
Israel Antiquities Authority · confirmation requested
Chronology not yet assigned in this catalogue
Witness lead
Damascus Document · Qumran witness
4Q271 · Dᶠ
One Qumran witness; Cairo copies and other Qumran fragments have separate records.
Israel Antiquities Authority · confirmation requested
Chronology not yet assigned in this catalogue
Object / witness
War Scroll
1QM
A separately identified Dead Sea Scroll study target.
Israel Museum · custody confirmation requested
Chronology not yet assigned in this catalogue
Object / witness
Genesis Apocryphon
1Q20
A separately identified Dead Sea Scroll study target.
Israel Museum · custody confirmation requested
Chronology not yet assigned in this catalogue
Object / witness
Birmingham Qur’an manuscript
Mingana Islamic Arabic 1572a
Two leaves preserving passages from three surahs.
University of Birmingham
568–645 CE · parchment radiocarbon interval
Object / witness
Mingana Qur’an · companion witness
Mingana Islamic Arabic 1572b
A separately catalogued early Qur’an witness.
University of Birmingham
Chronology not yet assigned in this catalogue
Object / witness
Mingana Qur’an · Kufic witness
Mingana Islamic Arabic 1563
A separately identified Kufic-script Qur’an witness.
University of Birmingham
Ninth century CE · university description
Object / witness
Astronomy, star catalogue and precession note
Pal. lat. 1377 · f.194v; ff.21ra–42va
Catalogue leads for planetary texts, a star catalogue and a later precession note.
Vatican Apostolic Library
Chronology not yet assigned in this catalogue
Object / witness
Ptolemy’s Handy Tables · Greek witness
Vat. gr. 1291
A digitized witness connected with Ptolemy’s Handy Tables.
Vatican Apostolic Library
Chronology not yet assigned in this catalogue
Object / witness
Herculaneum · recovered ethical treatise
PHerc. 1667
Virtual unwrapping recovered the preserved inner portion of a damaged roll.
National Library of Naples · project source
Chronology not yet assigned in this catalogue
Object / witness
Herculaneum · On Vices, Book 1
PHerc. 172
A Herculaneum roll with recovered text and a project title identification.
Bodleian Library · project source
Chronology not yet assigned in this catalogue
Object / witness
Herculaneum · On Gods, Book 8
PHerc. 139
A recovered title attributes the roll to Philodemus’s On Gods, Book 8.
National Library of Naples · project source
Chronology not yet assigned in this catalogue
Object / witness
Rhinoceros Sūtra · Gāndhārī witness
British Library Kharoṣṭhī Fragment 5B
A named witness with a published text study.
British Library · edition route via Washington
Chronology not yet assigned in this catalogue
Witness lead
Gāndhārī Abhidharma · publication-status lead
British Library Kharoṣṭhī Fragment 28
An older work-in-progress entry requiring a current bibliographic check.
British Library · status check via Washington
Chronology not yet assigned in this catalogue
Object / witness
Sinai palimpsest · erased illustrated layer
Arabic New Finds 8 · fols.16v–17r
A project example of spectral imaging revealing an erased illustrated page.
St. Catherine’s Monastery · Sinai Palimpsests Project
Chronology not yet assigned in this catalogue
Witness lead
Enoch · Aramaic Qumran witness
4Q201 · 4Q Enᵃ
A named Enoch witness in the IAA catalogue.
Israel Antiquities Authority · catalogue route
200–150 BCE · 1993 exhibition assessment
Witness lead
Astronomical Enoch · Qumran witness
4Q208 · 4Q Enastrᵃ · plate 814
The IAA image record links plate 814 with the 4Q208 witness.
Israel Antiquities Authority · image catalogue
186–92 BCE · reported 1995 2σ calibration
Witness lead
Jubilees · Qumran witness
4Q216 · 4Q Jubᵃ
A separately identified Hebrew Jubilees witness.
Israel Antiquities Authority · catalogue route
Chronology not yet assigned in this catalogue
Witness lead
Sefer Yetzirah · Cairo Genizah roll fragment
Cambridge T-S K 21.56 · NLI 990051214940205171
A Sefer Yetzirah catalogue lead with bibliography reporting partial translation.
Cambridge University Library · Ktiv catalogue route
Chronology not yet assigned in this catalogue
Object / witness
Latin Jubilees · Latin Moses undertext
Biblioteca Ambrosiana C 73 inf. · Latin Moses
A Latin Jubilees witness studied through the project’s reconstruction, transcription and translation files.
Biblioteca Ambrosiana · Jubilees Palimpsest Project route
Fifth century CE · project reconstruction attribution
Collection route
HMML Reading Room
Collection-level discovery route
Digital manuscript discovery across partner repositories.
HMML Reading Room
Chronology not yet assigned in this catalogue
Collection route
Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
Collection-level discovery route
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Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
Chronology not yet assigned in this catalogue
Collection route
International Dunhuang Programme
Collection-level discovery route
A route to manuscripts and other Silk Road material across institutions.
International Dunhuang Programme
Chronology not yet assigned in this catalogue
Collection route
Ktiv · Hebrew manuscripts
Collection-level discovery route
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Ktiv · Hebrew manuscripts
Chronology not yet assigned in this catalogue
Collection route
Corpus Coranicum · manuscript database
Collection-level discovery route
A manuscript discovery route for Qur’anic witnesses held across many institutions.
Corpus Coranicum · manuscript database
Chronology not yet assigned in this catalogue
Collection route
Avestan Digital Archive / CAB
Collection-level discovery route
Manuscript images, passage indexing and an evolving Avestan editorial project.
Avestan Digital Archive / CAB
Chronology not yet assigned in this catalogue
Collection route
Egypt Exploration Society · Oxyrhynchus
Collection-level discovery route
A large literary and documentary papyrus collection housed in Oxford.
Egypt Exploration Society · Oxyrhynchus
Chronology not yet assigned in this catalogue
Collection route
Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
Collection-level discovery route
Search and study scroll fragments and imaging records.
Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
Chronology not yet assigned in this catalogue
Collection route
Sinai Palimpsests / UCLA
Collection-level discovery route
Recovering and identifying erased text layers through spectral imaging.
Sinai Palimpsests / UCLA
Chronology not yet assigned in this catalogue
Collection route
Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project
Collection-level discovery route
Named editions and research on early Buddhist manuscripts.
Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project
Chronology not yet assigned in this catalogue
Collection route
British Library · manuscripts and archives
Collection-level discovery route
A catalogue route spanning manuscripts and archival documents across periods.
British Library · manuscripts and archives
Chronology not yet assigned in this catalogue
Collection route
Endangered Archives Programme
Collection-level discovery route
Digitized archives from collections at risk around the world.
Endangered Archives Programme
Chronology not yet assigned in this catalogue
Collection route
Papyri.info
Collection-level discovery route
An integrated route to published papyrus texts, metadata and translation references.
Papyri.info
Chronology not yet assigned in this catalogue
Collection route
Library of Congress · Mesoamerican codices
Collection-level discovery route
A discovery route beginning with the digitally preserved Codex Quetzalecatzin.
Library of Congress · Mesoamerican codices
Chronology not yet assigned in this catalogue
Object / witness
Al-Khujandi instrument treatise and Hibatallah supplement
Mingana Islamic Arabic 560 · catalogue 1902
One physical codex preserves a base instrument treatise and a separate supplement.
University of Birmingham · Cadbury Research Library
Thirteenth century CE · historical catalogue estimate
Object / witness
Astronomical Enoch · 4Q209
4Q209 · 4Q Enastrᵇ · IAA plate 847
A distinct Aramaic Astronomical Book witness with lunar-calendar material.
Israel Antiquities Authority
Chronology not yet assigned in this catalogue
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