Another papyrus, recovered in Toura, Egypt, contains notes taken on apolemical work by the church father Origen (185–254), including both faithfulexcerpts of varying lengths and notes made by abridgment from his AgainstCelsus.1

We have, forexample, some notes and drafts of treatises by the Epicurean philosopher Philo-demus (110–40 BCE) preserved under seventy feet of volcanic ash at Hercula-neum.