Papyrus 1

Papyrus 1 ( in the Gregory- Aland numbers 1) is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of Matthew, and is dated to the 3rd century. It is currently kept in the museum of the University of Pennsylvania under the signature E 2746. It was discovered in Oxyrhynchus in Egypt. The manuscript is a fragment of a leaf, folded so that two sides arise with one column per page. On each side there are 27-29 rows, the dimensions are approximately 14.7 cm x 15 cm. Still preserved is the text from Matthew 1,1-9.12 and 13, 14-20. Using palaeography, it has been dated to the early 3rd century.

Text

The Greek of the Code can be assigned to the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category I.

1 follows the text of Codex Vaticanus. Most deviations are found in the pronunciation of the name in the lineage of Jesus.

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History

Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt discovered the Papyrus Oxyrhynchus in Egypt in the second day of the excavations in the winter 1896-1897. Their findings were published in the first volume of The Oxyrhynchus papyri in 1898.