Papyrus 55

New Testament manuscripts
Papyri • Uncials • Minuscules • Lectionaries

Papyrus 55 ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$
text	John 1 †
language	Greek
date	6th / 7th century
Found	Egypt
Storage location	Austrian National Library
source	P. Sanz, communications from the papyrus collection of the Austrian National Library in Vienna , NS, IV (Baden: 1946), pp. 58–59.
Type	Alexandrian text type
category	II

Papyrus 55 (named after Gregory-Aland with Sigel ⁵⁵ ) is an early Greek copy of the New Testament . This papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of John contains only verses 1.31-33.35-38. It was dated to the 6th or 7th century using paleography . ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$

The Greek text of the Codex represents the Alexandrian text type . Aland placed him in Category II .

The manuscript is currently kept in the Austrian National Library (Pap. Vindob. G. 26214) in Vienna .

See also

• List of New Testament 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).
• P. Sanz, communications from the papyrus collection of the Austrian National Library in Vienna , NS, IV (Baden: 1946), pp. 58–59.

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