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This is an updated edition of P.Oxy. VIII 1080, a miniature codex of the Johannine Apocalypse. Besides further the discussion of the manuscript's palaeographical and codicological features, it also includes a brief analysis of its text and corrections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers an edition of a Greek papyrus belonging to the Austrian National Library which contains a fragment of a donatio mortis causa drawn up in Hermoupolis Magna. Donationes mortis causa are documents used in Roman and Byzantine Egypt for disposing of one's property in anticipation of death. Since the present papyrus seems to date from the last third of the 6th century A.D., it provides us with one of the latest attestations of this kind of document. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I offer a new papyrological edition of the magical hymn 11 Preisendanz, contained in PGM II at lines 81-101, supported by a translation in Italian and a literary commentary. This magical hymn mirrors late antique language and imagery so that we can speak of a magic oracular koiné. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Publication of two Homeric papyrus fragments of Iliad 10.26-30 and Odyssey 22. 340-345 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]