Papyrus 31
New Testament manuscript | |
Text | Romans 12 † |
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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 | II |
Papyrus 31 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by 31, 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. Hunt suggested it was a lectionary.[1]
Description
Written in medium sized sloping letters. It seems to have been copied for reading in church.[1]
The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in [[Categories of New Testament manuscripts#Category II|Category II]I].[2]<ref>idem, Der Text des Neuen Testaments, DBS 1982, p168<.ref> Agrees with Codex Sinaiticus.[1]
It is currently housed with the Rylands Papyri at the John Rylands University Library (Gr. P. 4) in Manchester.[2]
See also
References
- ^ a b c A. S. Hunt, Catalogue of the Greek Papyri in the John Ryland Library I, Literatury Texts (Manchester 1911), p. 9.
- ^ 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.
Further reading
- A. S. Hunt, Catalogue of the Greek Papyri in the John Ryland Library I, Literatury Texts (Manchester 1911), pp. 9–10.