Papyrus 31

Papyrus ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$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	II

Papyrus 31 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$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]

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]

• List of New Testament papyri

• A. S. Hunt, Catalogue of the Greek Papyri in the John Ryland Library I, Literatury Texts (Manchester 1911), pp. 9–10.

• Hunt, Catalogue of the Greek Papyri in the John Ryland Library I, 9