Papyrus 12 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), α 1033 (in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts), designated by siglum , is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Epistle to the Hebrews but only containing Hebrews 1:1. Using the study of comparative writing styles (palaeography), it has been assigned to ca. 285. It may have been a writing exercise or an amulet.[1]
The verse has been written at the top of the second column by another (likely later) writer in three lines. It has been written in a small uncial hand.[2] On the verso of this manuscript another writer has penned Genesis 1:1-5 according to Septuagint.
σ[ι] ημ[ω]ν εν τοις προ[φηταις]
It has error of itacism (παλε instead of παλαι), the nomina sacra contracted (
ΘΣ).The Greek text of this small portion of Hebrews is probably a representative of the Alexandrian text-type, but its text is too brief for certainty. Aland placed it in Category I of his New Testament manuscript classification system.[3]
It supports the textual variant ημων as in codices a t v vgmss syrp.[4]
The manuscript was discovered in 1897 by Grenfell and Hunt.
It is currently housed at The Morgan Library & Museum (Pap. Gr. 3; P. Amherst 3b) in New York City.[5] [6]