Papyrus 31

Papyrus **${\mathfrak {P}}$ ³¹**
New Testament manuscript
Text	Romans 12 †
Date	7th century
Script	Greek
Found	Egypt
Now at	John Rylands Library
Cite	A. S. Hunt, Catalogue of the Greek Papyri in the John Ryland Library I, Literatury Texts (Manchester 1911), pp. 9-10
Type	Alexandrian
Category	I

Papyrus 31 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designed by 𝔓³¹, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Epistle to the Romans, it contains only Romans 12:3-8. The manuscript paleographically had been assigned to the 7th century. Reverse side is blank. Possibly it was a talisman.

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category I.^[1]

It is currently housed at the John Rylands University Library (Gr. P. 4) in Manchester.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Kurt Aland, and Barbara Aland, The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism, transl. Erroll F. Rhodes, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1995, p. 97.