Papyrus 55

Papyrus 𝔓⁵⁵

New Testament manuscript
Name	Pap. Vindobonensis Gr. 26214
Text	John 1 †
Date	6th / 7th century
Script	Greek
Found	Egypt
Now at	Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
Cite	P. Sanz, Mitteilungen aus der Papyrussammlung der österreichischen Nationalbibliothek in Wien, N.S., IV (Baden: 1946), pp. 58-59.
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	II

Papyrus 55 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), signed by 𝔓⁵⁵, is a copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of John. The surviving texts of John are verses 1:31-33, 35–38.

The manuscript

has been assigned to the 6th century or the 7th century.

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category II.^[1]

It is currently housed at the Papyrus Collection of the Austrian National Library (Pap. Vindob. G. 26214) in Vienna.^[1][2]

See also

• List of New Testament papyri

References

Further reading

• Peter Sanz, Mitteilungen aus der Papyrussammlung der österreichischen Nationalbibliothek in Wien, N.S., IV (Baden: 1946), pp. 58–59.