Excerpt from Biblia Devoted to Biblical Arch?ology and Oriental Research, Vol. 14: April, 1901 March, 1902
If in the department of historical and classical studies the 19th century will ever be famous for the discovery of ancient manuscripts preserved unheeded before in libraries or in the hand of private persons, it may already be surmised that the new century will be celebrated in the same branches of knowledge for the recovery and publication of manuscripts that have been, or will be, found buried in the sands of Egypt.
To immediately indicate the truth of this prophecy it is only necessary to say that at the present moment awaiting editors there exists appromixately the following numbers of papyri in addition to those in private collections. At Turin there are 10,000, mostly small fragments, at Alexandria 1,000, at Heidelberg several thousand, at Oxford probably 6 to 7,000, at Vienna quite 1,000, at Strasburg several hundred, as also at Paris and Berlin, whilst at Cairo in the Museum or the hand of dealers must be a considerable quantity: to say nothing of last year"s harvest of documents still scattered about Egypt in the possession of natives and collectors, to be secured by Museum Agents or travelers this winter.
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