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TM 61855 / LDAB 3011 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/61855

also known as P46; 𝔓46; Gregory-Aland P46; Gregory-Aland 𝔓46; NT46

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Metadata

Date: first half 3rd century AD: AD 200 - 250
cf. Clarysse / Orsini, Eph. Theol. Lov. 88 (2012), p. 462 and 470 [200-225]

Provenance: Aphroditopolis (Atfih) ? - Egypt (22nd Upper Egyptian nomeThe Egyptian nome ca. 3rd cent. BC - AegyptusThe Roman provincia ca. 2nd cent. AD) [found]
cf. Van Haelst, 1976, p. 30 no. 7: bought in 1930-1931, 'leur lieu de provenance n'est pas connu avec certititude', Schmidt: near Aphroditopolis (Atfih)?, Sanders: Upper Egypt / U09 Panopolis?, Kilpatrick: 00 Arsinoites?
Egypt - Egypt (N/AThe region ca. 3rd cent. BC - AegyptusThe Roman provincia or regio ca. 2nd cent. AD) [written]

Language/script: Greek (paleography: Alexandrian stylistic class)

Material: papyrus

Book form: codex (86 fol.) single quire; columns per page: 1; highest page number: 193; number of lines per page: 25-31

Authors / works: Testamentum novum, Paulus (Greek), Epistula ad Romanos: 5-16This link will bring you to The Bible Tool, where you can find an edition of this passage (although not of this text!). passim (direct attestation)
Testamentum novum, Paulus (Greek), Epistula ad Hebraeos: 1This link will bring you to The Bible Tool, where you can find an edition of this passage (although not of this text!)., 9This link will bring you to The Bible Tool, where you can find an edition of this passage (although not of this text!). (direct attestation)
Testamentum novum, Paulus (Greek), Epistula 1 ad Corinthios: 2.2-5This link will bring you to The Bible Tool, where you can find an edition of this passage (although not of this text!). (direct attestation)
Testamentum novum, Paulus (Greek), Epistula 2 ad Corinthios: 9.7-13This link will bring you to The Bible Tool, where you can find an edition of this passage (although not of this text!). (direct attestation)
Testamentum novum, Paulus (Greek), Epistula ad Ephesios: This link will bring you to The Bible Tool, where you can find an edition of this passage (although not of this text!). opus completum (direct attestation)
Testamentum novum, Paulus (Greek), Epistula ad Galatas: 1.1-10This link will bring you to The Bible Tool, where you can find an edition of this passage (although not of this text!). (direct attestation)
Testamentum novum, Paulus (Greek), Epistula ad Philippenses: This link will bring you to The Bible Tool, where you can find an edition of this passage (although not of this text!). opus completum (direct attestation)
Testamentum novum, Paulus (Greek), Epistula ad Colossenses: This link will bring you to The Bible Tool, where you can find an edition of this passage (although not of this text!). opus completum (direct attestation)
Testamentum novum, Paulus (Greek), Epistula 1 ad Thessalonicenses: 1This link will bring you to The Bible Tool, where you can find an edition of this passage (although not of this text!)., 5This link will bring you to The Bible Tool, where you can find an edition of this passage (although not of this text!). (direct attestation)

Culture & genre: literature — prose, bible, letter (religion: christian)

Recto/Verso: Ro/Vo

More info: CSNTMCenter for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts => 187 links in TM, DCLPDigital Corpus of Literary Papyri => 14624 links in TM, NT.VMRNew Testament Virtual Manuscript Room => 326 links in TM, WikipediaWikipedia => 949 links in TM

Publications

P. Beatty 2 (II) (Kenyon, Frederic G. - 1933) Please subscribe to follow this link [default]

∙Jaroš, Das Neue Testament nach den ältesten griechischen Handschriften (CD-Rom) 1.10 (p. 1094-2125) (Jaroš, Karl / Jaroš-Deckert, Brigitte - 2006)

∙Comfort / Barrett, The complete text of the earliest New Testament manuscripts p. 192-324 (Comfort, Philip W. / Barrett, D. P. - 1999)

∙Sanders, A third century papyrus codex of the Epistles of St Paul (Sanders, Henry A. - 1935)

∙P. Beatty 2 2 Suppl. (Kenyon, Frederic G. - 1933) Please subscribe to follow this link

∙van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires juifs et chrétiens 497 descr. (van Haelst, Joseph - 1976) (= catalogue only)

∙Aland, Repertorium I. Neues Testament 46 (Aland, Kurt - 1976) (= catalogue only)

Photo: Kenyon, Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri III (1934) + III Supplement (1937); W.H.P. Hatch, The principal uncial manuscripts of the New Testament, Chicago 1939, pl. 2; Comfort-Barrett, p.192; Comfort, Encountering the manuscripts, 2005, p. 140; Segno e Testo 3 (2005), pl. 20; L.M. Hurtado, The earliest christian artifacts (2006), pl. 1; Bagnall, Oxford handbook of papyrology, p. 597; Jaroš, Das Neue Testament (CD-ROM), 1.10; M.P. Brown, In the beginning. Bibles before the year 1000, 2006, p. 122-123; Verhoogt, Discarded, discovered, collected. The University of Michigan papyrus collection, 2017, p. 97

Content studies: Johannes de Vries & Martin Karrer (edd.), Textual History and the Reception of Scripture in Early Christianity / Textgeschichte und Schriftrezeption im frühen Christentum = Society of Biblical Literature. Septuagint and Cognate Studies. 60 (Atlanta, GA, 2013) pp. 79-90; E.B. Ebojo, The bible translator 64 (2013), p. 128-150

Script & book studies: G. Cavallo, Pap. Flor. 36 (2005), p. 184 dates AD02; E. Crisci, Segno e Testo 3 (2005), p. 125 dates early 3rd century; M.P. Brown, In the beginning. Bibles before the year 1000, 2006, p. 256-257 no. 13; J.R. Royse, Scribal habits in early Greek New Testament Papyri, NTTS 36, Leiden 2008, p. 199-358 (with full discussion of dates); D. Barker, NTS 57 (2011), p. 578-582 (date); A. Peri, Sit liber gratus, quem servulus est operatus, (Littera antiqua 19), Rome 2012, p. 9-20; Peterson, BASP 56 (2019), p. 173-195; B. Nongbri, Novum Testamentum 64 (2022), p. 388-407

Other bibliography: Peterson, BASP 56 (2019), p. 173-195

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Collections

→ Ann Arbor, Michigan University, Library P. 6238
+→ Dublin, Chester Beatty Library P. Bibl. 2

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