Today's Newly Digitized Rare Books Worldwide

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Today's Newly Digitized Rare Books Worldwide05/12/2026, 13:45:38

A marriage contract that accidentally preserved an ancient library edict

A 127 CE papyrus from Oxyrhynchus, freshly digitized by the Bodleian, carries a dowry list on one side and — on the other — the only surviving administrative edict from the Library of Hadrian in Alexandria.