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 Rylands Library I, Literatury Texts (Manchester 1911), p. 9
Type	Alexandrian
Category	II

Papyrus 31 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by ${\mathfrak {P}}$ 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 has 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 uncial 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 Category II.^[2]^[3] Agrees with Codex Sinaiticus.^[1]

^ ^a ^b ^c A. S. Hunt, Catalogue of the Greek Papyri in the John Rylands Library I, Literatury Texts (Manchester 1911), p. 9.
^ ^a ^b Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 97. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
^ Kurt Aland, and Barbara Aland, Der Text des Neuen Testaments, DBS 1982, p. 168
^ "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 26 August 2011.

"Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 9 March 2011.