Papyrus 54

New Testament manuscripts
Papyri • Uncials • Minuscules • Lectionaries

Papyrus 54 ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$
Surname	P. Princeton
text	James 2; 3 †
language	Greek
date	5th / 6th
Found	Egypt
Storage location	Princeton University Library
source	EH Kase, Papyrus in the Princeton University Collections II (Princeton: 1936), pp. 1-3.
size	8.7 x 6.5 cm
Type	Alexandrian text type
category	III / II

Papyrus 54 (named after Gregory-Aland with Sigel ⁵⁴ ) is an early Greek copy of the New Testament . This papyrus manuscript of the epistle of James contains only verses 2.16-18.22-26; 3.2-4. It was dated to the 5th or 6th century using paleography . ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$

The Greek text of the Codex represents the Alexandrian text type . With some hesitation, Aland placed him in Category III (probably Category II).

The manuscript is currently held in the Princeton University Library (P. Princ. 15; Garrett Depots 7742) in Princeton .

See also

• List of New Testament papyri
• Princeton papyri

literature

• Kurt Aland : Concise List of the Greek Manuscripts of the New Testament - in connection with Michael Welte, edited. by Kurt Aland. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1994, 2nd revised and supplemented edition, ISBN 3-11-011986-2 , (Work on New Testament Text Research Vol. 1).
• Edward Harris Kase, Papyrus in the Princeton University Collections II (Princeton: 1936), pp. 1-3.

Web links

• Image from ⁵⁴ folio 1 recto ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$
• Image from ⁵⁴ Folio 1 verso ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$
• ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$⁵⁴ at the Princeton University Library Papyrus
• Robert B. Waltz. 'NT Manuscripts: Papyri, Papyri ⁵⁴ ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Kurt and Barbara Aland : The text of the New Testament. Introduction to the scientific editions as well as the theory and practice of modern textual criticism . German Bible Society, Stuttgart 1989, p. 109. ISBN 3-438-06011-6