Papyrus 22

Papyrus 𝔓²²

New Testament manuscript
Name	P. Oxy. 1228
Text	John 15-16 †
Date	3rd century
Script	Greek
Found	Egypt
Now at	Glasgow University Library
Cite	B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, Oxyrynchus Papyri’' X, (London 1914), pp. 14-16
Size	18.5 x 5 cm
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	I

Grenfell and Hunt

Bernard Grenfell		Arthur Hunt

Papyrus 22, designated by 𝔓²² (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of John, only containing extant John 15:25-16:2, 21–32. Using the study of comparative writings styles, (palaeography), the manuscript has been dated to the early 3rd century CE.^[1] It is the only identified New Testament papyrus to have been written originally as a roll; not a codex or re-using the back of a scroll.

Description

The text was written in two consecutive columns on a roll. The reverse side is blank.

The Greek text of this codex is considered a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland described it as a normal text and placed it in Category I.^[1] This manuscript displays an independent text.^[2] Coincidences with the Codex Sinaiticus are frequent, but divergences are noticeable.^[3] There are no singular readings.^[4] According to Schofield the fragment rather represents the eclecticism of the early papyri before the crystallizing of the textual families had taken place.^[2]

It is currently housed at the Glasgow University Library (MS Gen 1026) in Glasgow.^[1][5]

See also

• List of New Testament papyri

References

Further reading

• B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, Oxyrynchus Papyri X, (London 1914), pp. 14–16.

External links

• Fifty Treasures from Glasgow University Library
• Images of the codex at the CSNTM