Papyrus 1

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'''Papyrus 1''' (in the [[Biblical manuscript#Gregory-Aland|Gregory-Aland]] numbering) designated by [[Image:C3945eee4633c095c5059f9a67aca5f7.png]]<sup>1</sup>, designated by 1, ε 01 (von Soden), is an early copy of the [[Greek New Testament|New Testament in Greek]]. It is a [[papyrus]] manuscript of the [[Gospel of Matthew]] dating to the 3rd century. It is currently housed at the University of Pennsylvania Museum (E 2746), and was discovered in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt.  
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'''Papyrus 1''' (in the [[Biblical manuscript#Gregory-Aland|Gregory-Aland]] numbering) designated by [[Image:C3945eee4633c095c5059f9a67aca5f7.png]]<sup>1</sup>, designated by 1, ε 01 (von Soden), is an early copy of the [[Greek New Testament|New Testament in Greek]]. It is a [[papyrus]] manuscript of the [[Gospel of Matthew]] dating to the 3rd century. It is currently housed at the [[University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology|University of Pennsylvania Museum]] (E 2746), and was discovered in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt.  
==Description==
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Revision as of 13:58, 10 April 2010

Papyrus 1

Papyrus 1 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering) designated by Image:C3945eee4633c095c5059f9a67aca5f7.png1, designated by 1, ε 01 (von Soden), is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of Matthew dating to the 3rd century. It is currently housed at the University of Pennsylvania Museum (E 2746), and was discovered in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt.

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Description

The manuscript is a fragment of two leaves, one column per page, 27-29 lines per page, roughly 14.7 cm by 15 cm. The surviving text of Matthew are verses 1:1-9, 12 and 13, 14-20. It is dated paleographically to the early 3rd century. The words are written continuously without separation. Accents and breathings are absent. The nomina sacra written in abbreviated forms: ΙC XC YC ΠNA .[1]

Text

The Greek text-type of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category I.[2]

Image:C3945eee4633c095c5059f9a67aca5f7.png1 follows the text of Codex Vaticanus, from which it rarely varies.[3] Most of the variants are in the spelling of names in the genealogy.

History

Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt discovered this papyrus at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt, on the second day of excavation, in the Winter of 1896-1897. Their findings were published in the first volume of The Oxyrhynchus Papyri in 1898.

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