Papyrus 9

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Papyrus 𝔓9
P. Oxy. 402
Text1 John 4 †
Date3rd century
ScriptGreek
FoundOxyrhynchus, Egypt
Now atHoughton Library
CiteGrenfell & A. S. Hunt, Oxyrhynchus Papyri III (1903), pp. 2-3
Size8 x 5.2 c, [11 x 15]
TypeAlexandrian text-type
CategoryI
Handirregular

Papyrus 9 (in the

Oxyrhynchus papyri 402, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the First Epistle of John, dating paleographically to the early 3rd century.[1]

Description

Grenfell and Hunt
Bernard Grenfell Arthur Hunt

Papyrus 𝔓9 was discovered by

Semitic Museum Inv. 3736, Cambridge (Massachusetts).[1][2]

The surviving text is a fragment of one leaf containing verses 4:11-12,14-17, written in one column per page. The original codex had 16 lines per page. The text on the manuscript was written very carelessly, evidenced by the crude and irregular handwriting, and the manuscript contains some unintelligible spellings.[1]

Text

The Greek text of this codex is representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category I.[3] The manuscript is too brief for certainty.

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See also

References

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  2. ^ "Handschriftenliste". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 23 August 2011.
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