Papyrus 40

Papyrus $\mathfrak{P}$⁴⁰

New Testament manuscript papyri uncials minuscules lectionaries
Text	Romans 1-4; 6; 9 †
Date	3rd century
Script	Greek
Found	Egypt
Now at	University of Heidelberg
Cite	F. Bilabel, Römerbrieffragmente, VBP IV, (Heidelberg 1924), 28-31
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	I

Papyrus 40 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by $\mathfrak{P}$⁴⁰, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. The manuscript paleographically has been assigned to the 3rd century. It is carelessly written.

Description

It is a papyrus manuscript of the Epistle to the Romans, it contains Romans 1:24-27; 1:31-2:3; 3:21-4:8; 6:4-5.16; 9:16-17.27.

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type, rather proto-Alexandrian, Aland named it as "Free text", and placed it in Category I because of its date.

This manuscript is closer to Codex Sinaiticus than to Codex Alexandrinus and Vaticanus.

It is currently housed at the Papyrussammlung der Universität in the University of Heidelberg (Inv. no. 45).

See also

• List of New Testament papyri

Further reading

• Friedrich Bilabel, Römerbrieffragmente, VBP IV, (Heidelberg 1924), pp. 28–31.

External links

• VBP IV 57