Papyrus 99

Papyrus 99 (Gregory-Aland), designated by ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$⁹⁹, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek-Latin . It is a papyrus manuscript of the Pauline epistles. Four leaves have survived.[1][2]

Papyrus 99

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Name	P. Chester Beatty 1499
Sign	${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$^99
Text	A glossary(?) - single words and phrases from some Pauline epistle.
Date	ca. 400
Script	Greek-Latin
Now at	Chester Beatty Library
Size	16.8 by 13.6

Description

This papyrus is part of the Chester Beatty collection. It is usually considered as a glossary with single words and phrases from:

• Rom 1:1;
• 2 Cor 1:3-6, 1:6-17, 1:20-24, 2:1-9, 2:9-5:13, 5:13-6:3, 6:3-8:13, 8:14-22, 9:2-11:8, 11:9-23, 11:26-13:11;
• Gal 1:4-11, 1:18-6:15, 1:14-2:4, 2:4-3:19, 3:19-4:9;
• Eph 1:4-2:21, 1:22(?), 3:8-6:24

The text is written in 1 column per page, 27-30 lines per page.

It also contains a Latin lexicon and Greek grammar.[3]

Elliot calls this papyrus '... a haphazard collection of unconnected verses from the Pauline letters [that] could have been a school exercise ...'[4]

The manuscript is housed at the Chester Beatty Library (P. Chester B. Ac. 1499, fol 11–14) in Dublin.[1][2]

See also

• List of New Testament papyri

References

1. K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments, (Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1994), p. 16. ISBN 3-11-011986-2
2. "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 27 August 2011.
3. The Chester Beatty codex AC 1499 LDAB
4. Elliot (2005), JK, Absent witnesses?, p. 50, in The Reception of the New Testament in the Apostolic Fathers, Gregory, Andrew F. & Tuckett, Christopher Mark,(eds), Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-926782-8

Further reading

• Wouters (1988), Alfons, The Chester Beatty Codex AC 1499, a Graeco-Latin lexicon on the Pauline Epistles, and a Greek grammar, Peeters, ISBN 978-90-6831-124-2

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