> Could anyone point me to any sites you know of that house readable
> digitized photographs of papyri and/or parchments?
Here are two web sites dedicated to papyrology. The first is the
Duke papyrus archives; the second is associated with University
of Michigan:
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/papyrus/texts/homepage.html
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jmucci/papyrology/
Brown University has a page on textual criticism which contains several
such images. You can see the table of contents here:
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/mss/
One of their exercises involves John 1:3 - should it read OUDE hEN, or OUDEN?
They show the images of this text in various manuscripts of different types:
Alexandrian text type:
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/mss/tc_pap66.html
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/mss/tc_pap75.html
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/mss/tc_codexv.html
Western text type:
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/mss/tc_codexs.html
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/mss/tc_codexb.html
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/mss/tc_codexw.html
Byzantine text type:
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/mss/tc_codexa.html
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/mss/tc_codex666.html
Here are the text critical questions they suggest you use:
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/mss/tc_con.html
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