Papyrus 23

Papyrus $\mathfrak{P}$²³

New Testament manuscript papyri uncials minuscules lectionaries
James 1:15-18
Name	P. Oxy. 1229
Text	James 1 †
Date	3rd century
Script	Greek
Found	Egypt
Now at	University of Illinois
Cite	B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, Oxyrynchus Papyri’' X, (London 1914), pp. 16-18
Size	12.1 x 11.2 cm
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	I

Papyrus 23 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by $\mathfrak{P}$²³, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Epistle of James, it contains only James 1:10-12,15-18. The manuscript paleographically has been assigned to the early 3rd century.

Description

The Nomina sacra are written fully, abbreviations are used only at the end of lines. There has been noticed the occurrence of the ungrammatical αποσκιασματος found also in Codex Sinaiticus and Vaticanus in James 1:17.

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type (or rather proto-Alexandrian). Aland placed it in Category I. This manuscript displays the greatest agreement with codices א A C, which represent the best text of the Catholic epistles, and then with Codex Vaticanus and Papyrus 74.

It is currently housed in the Spurlock Museum at the University of Illinois (G. P. 1229) in Urbana, Illinois.

See also

• List of New Testament papyri

Further reading

• B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, Oxyrynchus Papyri X, (London 1914), pp. 16–18.
• R. H. Charles, Revelation of St. John, ICC, vol. II (Edinbourgh, 1920), pp. 448–450.

External links

Grenfell and Hunt

Bernard Grenfell		Arthur Hunt

• $\mathfrak{P}$²³ (P.Oxy 1229) recto James 1:10-12
• $\mathfrak{P}$²³ (P.Oxy 1229) verso James 1:15-18
• P23 images at the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts