Papyrus 13

Vittorio Bartoletti and M Norsi, Papiri greci e della Società Italiana latini, vol. 12 (1951 ) :209 - 210.

Papyrus 13 ( in the Gregory- Aland numbering refers to the Sigel 13, von Soden α 1034) is an early copy of the Greek New Testament. It is a papyrus manuscript of the 3rd century and is sometimes dated to 225-250 AD.

Papyrus 13 was discovered by Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt in Oxyrhynchus in Egypt, and in 1904 as P. Oxy. IV 657 published. It is kept in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo under the signature PSI in 1292 and the British Library in London, under the signature Pap 1532vo.

The surviving text consists of twelve columns, each with 23 to 27 rows of a scroll. It comes from the book of Hebrews, in detail, there are verses from 2.14 to 5.5; 10.8 to 22; 10.29 to 11.13; 11.28 to 12.17. The page numbers indicate that in the original scroll another text preceded the Hebrews.

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category I. Papyrus 13 agrees closely correspond to the text of Codex Vaticanus. There is also a 80 % agreement with 46 It is the largest papyrus manuscript in addition to the Chester Beatty Papyri.

13 is written on the back ( verso) of a scroll, the front ( recto ) contains Livios work the history of Rome, which is dated to about the year 200.