Papyrus 14 Explained

Papyrus 14 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 1036 (in the Soden's numbering), signed by ¹⁴, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript written in form of codex. The manuscript palaeographically has been assigned to the 5th century.^[1]

Description

The manuscript contains the text of the First Epistle to the Corinthians (1:25-27; 2:6-8; 3:8-10; 3:19-20). The manuscript is written in 1 column per page.

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category II.^[1]

It was discovered in Saint Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai in Egypt by J. Rendel Harris,^[2] who published its text in 1890. It was also examined by Schofield.^[3]

The manuscript currently is housed at the Saint Catherine's Monastery (Harris 14).^{[1] [4]}

See also

• List of New Testament papyri
• Papyrus 11

Further reading

• James Rendel Harris, Biblical fragments from Mount Sinai I, (London 1890), pp. 54–56.
• Book: Gregory , Caspar René . Caspar René Gregory . Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament . J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung . 1908 . Leipzig . 47 .

Notes and References

1. Book: Aland . Kurt . Kurt Aland . Aland . Barbara . Barbara Aland . Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) . The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism . . 1995 . Grand Rapids . 97 . 978-0-8028-4098-1.
2. Frederic G. Kenyon, "Handbook to the Textual Criticism of the New Testament", London², 1912, p. 44.
3. Ellwood M. Schofield, The Papyrus Fragments of the Greek New Testament, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, 1936, pp. 168-170.
4. Web site: Handschriftenliste. Institute for New Testament Textual Research. 23 August 2011. Münster.