In the earliest surviving gospel collection, Papyrus 45 of the 3rd century, it is placed second in the order Matthew, John, Luke and Mark, an order which is also found in other very early New Testament manuscripts.

A folio from Papyrus 46 | P46, an early-3rd-century collection of Pauline epistles.

Papyrus scrolls comprised the collection, and although codices were used after 300 BC, the Alexandrian Library is never documented as having switched to parchment, perhaps because of its strong links to the papyrus trade.

* Michigan Papyrus Collection — this collection contains above 10 000 papyri fragments.

* Papyrus collection room, originally collected by Drovetti and later used by Champollion during his studies for the decoding of the hieroglyphics.

Later, when an additional piece of the same manuscript was identified in the University of Cologne collection ( Papyrus Köln 255 ) and published in 1987 — it fit on the bottom of one of the Egerton pages — a single use of an apostrophe, which was not normally added to Greek punctuation until the 3rd century, sufficed to revise the date of the manuscript.

The Moscow Mathematical Papyrus, the Egyptian Mathematical Leather Roll, the Lahun Mathematical Papyri which are a part of the much larger collection of Kahun Papyri and the Berlin Papyrus all date to this period.

The Papyrus Ebers from ancient Egypt, written around 1500 B. C., contain a collection of more than 800 prescriptions, or ancient recipes for the apothecaries of the time.

Papyrus Harris I is also known as the Great Harris Papyrus and ( less accurately ) simply the Harris Papyrus ( though there are a number of other papyri in the Harris collection ).

Written in the first half of the third century, Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 1 contains a collection of sayings of Jesus, each headed " Jesus says " ().

The papyrus is now in the collection of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, and officially designated as Papyrus Pushkin 120.

The Nash Papyrus is a collection of four papyrus fragments acquired in Egypt in 1898 by W. L. Nash, the secretary of the Society of Biblical Archaeology.

The Papyrus collection ( Collection Archduke Rainer ) is the largest such collection worldwide, and was inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme Register in 2001.

The Papyrus Museum, located in the library in the Neue Burg wing of the Hofburg Palace, has around 200 objects from the collection on display.

Turin Papyrus refers to any papyrus manuscript in the collection of the Museo Egizio ( Egyptian Museum ) at Turin, Italy.

The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, written in the 17th century BC, contains the earliest recorded reference to the brain

For each subsequent century, more and more manuscripts survive that contain a portion or all of the books that were held to be part of the New Testament at that time ( for example, the New Testament of the 4th-century Codex Sinaiticus, once a complete Bible, contains the Epistle of Barnabas and the Shepherd of Hermas ), though occasionally these manuscripts contain other works as well ( e. g., Papyrus 72 and the Crosby-Schøyen Codex ).

The Papyrus Anastasi I ( late 2nd millennium BC ) contains a satirical letter which first praises the virtues of its recipient, but then mocks the reader's meagre knowledge and achievements.

The Chester Beatty Papyrus No. 1 contains the legend known as The Contendings of Horus and Set.

The oldest extant manuscripts of the Masoretic Text date from approximately the 9th century CE, and the Aleppo Codex ( once the oldest complete copy of the Masoretic Text, but now missing its Torah section ) dates from the 10th century. The Nash Papyrus ( 2nd century BCE ) contains a portion of a pre-Masoretic Text, specifically the Ten Commandments and the Shema Yisrael prayer.

( Papyrus 45 is the oldest extant manuscript that contains text from Mark, but it has no text from chapter 16 due to extensive damage ).

Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 29 is a tiny fragment of an even older manuscript, but only contains the statement of one proposition.

In 1500 B. C., the Ancient Egyptians wrote the Ebers Papyrus, which contains information on over 850 plant medicines, including garlic, juniper, cannabis, castor bean, aloe, and mandrake.

Most of the above is called into question by Rylands Library Papyrus P52 which contains a fragment from John chapter 18 dated with a fair measure of confidence to the first half of the 2nd century.

Papyrus Berolinensis 8502, also known as the Akhmim Codex, also contains the Apocryphon of John, the Sophia of Jesus Christ, and a summary of the Act of Peter.

Papyrus Westcar is of the highest interest to historians and Egyptologists, since it's one of the oldest Egyptian documents that contains such a complex novel.

Papyrus Westcar contains hidden allusions and puns to the characters of the kings Nebka, Sneferu and Khufu.

The Papyrus pBerlin 3023 contains the novel The Eloquent Peasant, in which the following phrase appears: " See, these are artists who create the existing anew, who even replace a severed head ", which could be interpreted as an allusion to the Westcar Papyrus.

pBerlin 3023 contains another reference which strengthens the idea that many ancient Egyptian novels were influenced by Westcar Papyrus: column 232 contains the phrase " sleeping until dawn ", which appears nearly word-by-word in the Westcar Papyrus.

The Papyrus pAthen contains the phrase: "... for these are the wise who can move waters and make a river flow at their mere will and want ...", which clearly refers to the wonder that the magicians Djadjaemankh and Dedi had performed in pWestcar.

For instance, in Ancient Egypt, the Edwin Smith Papyrus contains an early description of the brain, and some speculations on its functions ( though in a medical / surgical context ).

Though other medical documents of ancient times were full of incantations and applications meant to turn away disease-causing demons and other superstition, the Edwin Smith Papyrus gives remedies to almost 50 conditions and only 1 contains incantations to ward off evil.

As Burkitt put it, " it is therefore reasonable to conjecture that this Papyrus contains the daily worship of a pious Egyptian Jew, who lived before the custom came to an end ".

The Rylands Library Papyrus P52 | Rylands Papyrus is perhaps the earliest New Testament fragment ; dated from its handwriting to about 125.

Impressions Games and the Papyrus Design Group were shut down in the spring of 2004, and about 50 people lost their jobs in those cuts ; 180 Sierra-related positions were eliminated at Vivendi ’ s Los Angeles offices ; and finally in June 2004, VU Games shut down Sierra's Bellevue location, which cost over 100 people their jobs, and dispersed Sierra ’ s work to other VU Games divisions.

Since the game was proprietary software, and there were no official tools or SDKs available from Papyrus, almost everything had to be worked out from scratch, the whole process taking about four years.

Very early examples are Epic of Gilgamesh, in its Sumerian version predating 2000 BC, and the Egyptian Book of the Dead written down in the Papyrus of Ani in approximately 1250 BC but probably dates from about the 18th century BC.

A literary masterpiece from 13th dynasty talking about Khufu is the famous Papyrus Westcar, where king Khufu witnesses a magical wonder and receives a prophecy from a magician named Dedi.

Ebers Papyrus is a 110-page scroll, which is about 20 meters long.

Outside of the inscriptions, there are textual occurrences preserved in Papyrus Raifet and Papyrus Sallier III, and a rendering of these same events in a letter from Ramesses to Hattusili III written in response to a scoffing complaint by Hattusili about the pharaoh's victorious depiction of the battle.

For example, such use is described in the Ebers Papyrus from Egypt, dating to about 1550 BC.

Among the papyri from Oxyrhynchus are a homily about women ( Inv R. 55247 ), part of the book of Tobit ( Apocrypha ) ( 448 ), and Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 73, relating to the transfer of a slave.

The beginning of the Great Harris Papyrus or Papyrus Harris I, which documents the reign of Ramesses III, provides some details about Setnakhte's rise to power.

The mummy of Kamose is mentioned in the Abbott Papyrus, which records an investigation into tomb robberies during the reign of Ramesses IX, about 400 years after Ahmose's internment.

A myth about the Eye, known from allusions in the Coffin Texts from the Middle Kingdom ( c. 2055 – 1650 BC ) and a more complete account in the Bremner-Rhind Papyrus from the Late Period ( 664 – 332 BC ), demonstrates the Eye's close connection with Ra and Atum and her ability to act independently.

The Fayyum Fragment ( Papyrus Vindobonensis Greek 2325 Vienna G. 2325 ) is a papyrus fragment containing text that could be from part of the New Testament, and consists of only about 100 Greek letters.

The Heracles Papyrus, a fragment of a 3rd-century Greek manuscript of a poem about the Labours of Heracles ( Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 2331 )

The Westcar Papyrus ( inventory-designation: P. Berlin 3033 ) is an ancient Egyptian text containing five stories about miracles performed by priests and magicians.

There are inconsistencies about the true nature of the acquisition and the subsequent whereabouts of the Westcar Papyrus.

The name of the hero, who is said to have performed the miracle, is completely lost, but Liechtheim and Lepper think it possible that the Papyrus was talking about the famous architect and high lector priest Imhotep.

The Heracles Papyrus, a fragment of 3rd century Greek manuscript containing a poem about the Labours of Heracles, is held by the library, along with over 100, 000 fragments found at Oxyrhynchus.