Papyrus 15

Papyrus 15 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), signed by ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$¹⁵, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It was originally a papyrus manuscript of the Pauline Corpus of letters, but now only contains 1 Corinthians 7:18-8:4.[1] The manuscript has been palaeographically assigned to the 3rd century.[2]

Papyrus ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$¹⁵

New Testament manuscript papyri uncials minuscules lectionaries
Name	P. Oxy. 1008
Text	1 Corinthians 7-8 †
Date	3rd century
Script	Greek
Found	Egypt
Now at	Egyptian Museum
Cite	B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, The Amherst Papyri VII, (London 1910), pp. 4-8
Size	26.5 x 14 cm
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	I

Description

The manuscript is written in a documentary hand.[2] There is about 37-38 lines per page.[2] Grenfeld and Hunt conjectured that ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$¹⁵ and ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$¹⁶ might have been part of the same manuscript. Both manuscripts have the same formation of letters, line space, and punctuation.[1]

The Greek text of this codex is probably a representative of the Alexandrian text-type, however the text is too brief to determine this exactly. Aland placed it in Category I.[3] It was the last papyrus classified by Gregory, in 1915. It is currently housed at the Egyptian Museum (JE 47423) in Cairo.[3][4]

See also

• List of New Testament papyri

References

1. Comfort, Philip W.; David P. Barrett (2001). The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts. Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers. p. 95. ISBN 978-0-8423-5265-9.
2. Comfort, Philip W.; David P. Barrett (2001). The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts. Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers. p. 93. ISBN 978-0-8423-5265-9.
3. Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 97. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
4. "Handschriftenliste". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 23 August 2011.

Further reading

• B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, The Amherst Papyri VII, (London 1910), pp. 4–8.

External links

• P. Oxy. 1008 – image