Dot Porter, Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Library, offers a video orientation to Penn Library’s LJS 45 -Papyrus fragments from The book of the dead. This manuscript was written in Egypt, between 300 and 150 B.C., and it includes nine illustrated fragments from a manuscript on papyrus of The book of the dead, a collection of spells and incantations buried with the dead to protect them in the afterlife. The fragments include text in hieratic script in black and red ink.
See the full online facsimile of this work in Penn in Hand.
The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies 