Papyrus 13

New Testament manuscript infobox
form=Papyrus
number=P¹³


caption=
name=
text=Hebrews 2:14-5:5; 10:8-22; 10:29-11:13; 11:28-12:17
date=225-250
script=Greek
found=Oxyrynchus, Egypt
now at=British Library/Medici Library
cite=Grenfell & Hunt, "Oxyrynchus Papyri" 4:36-48. (#657)
Vittorio Bartoletti and M Norsi, "Papiri greci e latini della Società Italiana", vol. 12 (1951):209-210.
size=12 columns of scroll; 23-27 lines/column;
pagination legible: 47-50, 61-65, 67-69.
type=often agrees with Vaticanus; 80% with P⁴⁶
cat=I
hand=
note=largest papyrus other than Chester Beatty collection

Papyrus 13 (P¹³) is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It was copied on papyrus in the third century, at a date somewhere between 225-250 CE.

P¹³ was discovered by Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt. It is currently housed at the British and Medici Libraries.

The surviving text is twelve columns, of 23 to 27 lines each, from a scroll. This is all from the Epistle to the Hebrews, namely 2:14-5:5; 10:8-22; 10:29-11:13; 11:28-12:17. The page numbers suggest something preceded Hebrews in the original scroll.

The text-type is Alexandrian. P¹³ agrees closely with the text of Codex Vaticanus. It also has 80% agreement with P⁴⁶. It is the largest papyrus manuscript of the New Testament outside the Chester Beatty Papyri.

P¹³ is written on the verso (back) of the scroll, the recto (front) has part of the text of Livy's "History of Rome", dated to around the year 200. [Philip W Comfort and David P Barrett, "The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts", (Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers Incorporated, 2001), pp. 83-92.]

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

ee also

*List of New Testament papyri
*Oxyrhynchus papyri
*Papyrus 1
*Papyrus 115

References

External links

* [http://books.google.com/books?id=2pYDsAhUOxAC&pg=PA98&lpg=PA96&ots=bd0v49Quux&dq=%22evangelien+fragmente+auf+papyrus%22&sig=cej2aoRU-9F0zOoaePK8_z7px7c#PPA97,M1 Aland, K and Aland, B (1995), "The Text of the New Testament", p.96, Trans. Rhodes, EF, Pub. Wm. B. Eerdmans] ISBN 0802840981

Image of P13:
* Robert B. Waltz. [http://www.skypoint.com/~waltzmn/ManuscriptsPapyri.html#P13 'NT Manuscripts: Papyri, P¹³.'] Islamic Site:
* 'Abd ar-Rahman, Robert Squires and MSM Saifullah. [http://www.islamic-awareness.org/Bible/Text/Mss/P13.html 'New Testament Manuscript: Papyrus 13, P¹³'.] "Islamic Awareness.org".