Papyrus 12

Papyrus 12 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 1033 (in the Soden numbering), designated by siglum ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$¹², is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Epistle to the Hebrews, it contains only Hebrews 1:1. The manuscript palaeographically has been assigned to ca. 285. It may have been a writing exercise or an amulet.[1]

Papyrus ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$¹²

New Testament manuscript papyri uncials minuscules lectionaries
Name	P. Amherst 3b
Text	Epistle to the Hebrews 1 †
Date	3rd century
Script	Greek
Found	Egypt 1897
Now at	The Morgan Library & Museum
Cite	B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, The Amherst Papyri I, (London 1900), pp. 28-31 (P. Amherst 3 b)
Size	20,8 cm x 23 cm
Type	Alexandrian text-type ?
Category	I

Description

Full page.

On the top of the second column another writer has penned Hebrews 1:1 in three lines.[2] It has been written in a small uncial hand.[3] On the verso of this manuscript another writer has penned Genesis 1:1-5 according to Septuaginta.[2]

Text

πολυμερως κ πολυ[τρο]πως

παλε ο θς λαλήσ[α]ς το[ις π]ατρα

σ[ι] ημ[ω]ν εν τοις προ[φηταις][3]

It has error of itacism (παλε instead of παλαι), the nomina sacra contracted (θς).

The Greek text of this codex probably is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type, but its text is too brief for certainty. Aland placed it in Category I.[4]

It supports textual variant with ημων as in codices ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$^46c a t v vg^mss syr^p.[5]

History

The manuscript was discovered in 1897 by Grenfell and Hunt.[2]

It is currently housed at The Morgan Library & Museum (Pap. Gr. 3; P. Amherst 3b) in New York City.[4][6][7]

See also

• List of New Testament papyri
• Papyrus Amherst 3a

References

1. Comfort, Philip W.; David P. Barrett (2001). The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts. Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers. p. 61. ISBN 978-0-8423-5265-9.
2. Philip W. Comfort, The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers Incorporated, 2001, p. 82.
3. B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, The Amherst Papyri I, (London 1900), p. 30.
4. 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.
5. NA26, p. 563.
6. "Handschriftenliste". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 23 August 2012.
7. INTF. "Papirus 12 (GA)". Liste Handschriften. Münster Institute. Retrieved 2012-02-29.

Further reading

• B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, The Amherst Papyri I, (London 1900), pp. 30-31. (P. Amherst 3 b).
• Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung. p. 47.