Four Christian Papyri in Oxford

Abstract This paper presents editions of four papyri from the collection of the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Three of the papyri come from the site of the monastery of Saint Apollo at Deir el-Bala’izah. All of the fragments are Christian and belong to around the sixth or seventh century. (1) MS Gr. liturg. f. 1 (P) is a hymn, preserved in complete form. (2) MS Gr. liturg. f. 3 (P) is a papyrus with a doxology and trisagion, the back of which seems to have been reused for cryptography. (3) MS Gr. th. e. 11 (P) is a small scrap with a trisagion. (4) MS Gr. liturg. g. 1 (P) belongs to a work of uncertain genre, perhaps a hymn.