AUTHOR: UNKNOWN

LANGUAGE: GREEK

DATE: 7TH CENTURY

PAGE #: 63

REPRODUCTION DIMENSIONS: 11.75 X 8.75 IN

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HISTORY/DESCRIPTION: IT IS A PAPYRUS MANUSCRIPT IS AN EARLY MEDIEVAL GREEK COPY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. IT IS A PAPYRUS MANUSCRIPT THAT CONTAINS PARTS OF ACTS OF THE APOSTLES AND CATHOLIC EPISTLES WITH LACUNAE. USING PALAEOGRAPHY, IT WAS DATED TO THE SEVENTH CENTURY. THE GREEK TEXT HAS THE CHARACTERISTIC OF THE AELXANDRIAN TEXT TYPE. THIS MANUSCRIPT IS BEING HELD AT THE BIBLIOTHECA BODMERIANA IN COLOGNY, SWITZERLAND.

CONTENTS:
ACTS 1:2-28:31
JAMES 1:1-5:20
1 PETER 1:1-2, 7-8, 13, 19-20, 25; 2:6-7, 11-12, 18, 24; 3:4-5
2 PETER 2:21, 3:4, 11, 16
1 JOHN 1:1, 6; 2:1-2, 7 13-14, 18-19, 25-26; 3:1-2, 8, 14, 19-20; 4:1, 6-7, 12, 18-19; 5:3-4, 9-10, 17
2 JOHN 1, 6-7, 13
3 JOHN 6, 12
JUDE 3, 7, 11-12, 16, 24

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