Papyrus Graecus Holmiensis
The Papyrus Graecus Holmiensis is a collection of craft recipes compiled in Egypt. It is written in Greek. The Stockholm papyrus has 154 recipes for dyeing, coloring gemstones, cleaning pearls, and imitation gold and silver. Certain of them may derive from the Pseudo-Democritus. Zosimos of Panopolis, an Egyptian alchemist of, gives similar recipes. Some of these recipes are found in medieval Latin collections of technological recipes, notably the Mappae clavicula.
Leyden papyrus X derives from the same sources, and is written in a similar hand, using chemically identical ink. The Stockholm papyrus and Leyden papyrus X were both found in Thebes by Giovanni Anastasi, who donated the Leyden papyrus to the Dutch government in 1828 and the Stockholm papyrus to the Swedish government in 1832. The Stockholm papyrus was first published by Otto Lagercrantz in 1913. Whereas Leyden papyrus X deals with metallurgy, the Stockholm papyrus deals with gems, pearls and textile dyeing.
