Wisconsin Papyri Collection

UW-Madison's Department of Special Collections in Memorial Library holds a small collection of 83 papyrus fragments. Ranging in date from the 3rd century BCE to the 7th century CE, the collection consists primarily of papyri written in Greek about a variety of topics. In the 1960s and 1970s, Dr. Pieter Johannes Sijpesteijn of the University of Amsterdam published a thorough description and analysis of each fragment in a two volume set entitled The Wisconsin Papyri (Brill, 1967-1977). This digital collection presents each fragment along with a transcription, translation, physical description, and other excerpts from Dr. Sijpesteijn's work.