Papyrus 31

Papyrus 31 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by <math>\mathfrak{P}</math>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.<sup[]

Description

Written in medium sized sloping uncial letters. It seems to have been copied for reading in church.<sup[]

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category II.<sup[]<sup[] Agrees with Codex Sinaiticus.<sup[]

It is currently housed with the Rylands Papyri at the John Rylands University Library (Gr. P. 4) in Manchester.<sup[]<sup[]

See also

• List of New Testament papyri

Further reading

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

External links

• Liste Handschriften by the Institute for New Testament Textual Research

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