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- Ms., numbers from 246 till 4051
- Pap., numbers from 1 till 85

All texts are kept between glass plates

A preliminary catalogue is available (in Dutch) : P.Baert, De Papyrusverzameling van de Universiteitsbibliotheek te Gent, Leuven 1985.

 P.Oxy. 10 1264; 11 1366; 12 1408, 1430; 1466, 1478, 1588; 13 1598, 1602, 1612; 14 1626, 1632, 1635, 1641, 1653, 1683; 1764; 15 1817; SB 03 6704, 6951, 7204.

For the papyri from Theadelpheia, there is a preliminary edition (in Dutch) by J. FRANCE, Theadelpheia in de Romeinse periode: een bijdrage op basis van onuitgegeven papyri in de Universiteitsbibliotheek te Gent, unpublished dissertation., KULeuven, 1994.

J. France, ZPE 123 (1998), p.135-144.

P.Oxy. 13 1598 : papyrus codex of St. Paul, Thessalonicenses I and II ( LDAB 3017 )

Sortes Astrampsychi, published by W. Clarysse and R. Stewart, P.Gent. inv. 85 : a new fragment of the Sortes Astrampsychi, Chronique d'Égypte 63 (1988), pp.309-314 ( LDAB 414 )

R. Bogaert, De Papyrusverzameling van de bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit te Gent, in : Anamnesis, Gedenkboek Dr. E.A. Leemans, Gent 1970, p. 107-125; Martin, Alain, Les collections de papyrus conservées en Belgique, in Atti del XXII Congresso di Papirologia, Firenze 1998, (Firenze 2001), p.888. The Ghent university library preserves 136 Greek papyri, bought on three occasions.

1. In 1908 Fr. Cumont (1868-1947) bought a first lot, mainly administrative documents from Theadelpheia (inv. 1-48 + one unnumbered papyrus).

2. In 1922, the RUG received a lot of about 20 papyri from the Egypt Exploration Society (inv. 49-75) (cf. Coles, Location-list, 1974, p. 4, no. 86).

3. A last group of texts (inv. 76-135) was bought in Egypt by J. Bidez (1867-1945) in 1927; only one item is published, a fragment des Sortes Astrampsychi .