Papyrus 54

{{New Testament manuscript infobox

| form = Papyrus

| number = 𝔓54

| image = P054-Jam-2 16-18-22-V.jpg

| isize =

| caption=

| name = P. Princeton

| sign =

| text = Epistle of James 2; 3 †

| script = Greek

| date = 5th / 6th century

| found = Egypt

| now at = Princeton University Library

| cite = E. H. Kase, Papyrus in the Princeton University Collections II (Princeton: 1936), pp. 1-3.

| size = 8.7 x 6.5 cm

| type = Alexandrian text-type

| cat = III/II

| hand =

| note =

}}

Papyrus 54 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by siglum 𝔓54, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. The manuscript palaeographically has been assigned to the 5th century (or 6th century).

It is a papyrus manuscript of the Epistle of James, it contains only fragments of James 2:16-18.22-26; 3:2-4.

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it, with some hesitation, in Category III (possibly II).{{Cite book

|last1=Aland

|first1=Kurt

|author-link=Kurt Aland

| last2 = Aland

| first2 = Barbara

| author-link2 = Barbara Aland

| others = Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.)

|title=The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism

|publisher=William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

|year=1995

|location=Grand Rapids

|page=99

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2pYDsAhUOxAC

|isbn=978-0-8028-4098-1}}

It is currently housed at the Princeton University Library (P. Princ. 15; earlier Garrett Depots 7742) in Princeton, New Jersey.{{Cite web|url=http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php?ObjID=10054|title= Liste Handschriften|publisher=Institute for New Testament Textual Research|access-date=26 August 2011|location=MΓΌnster}}

See also

References

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Further reading

  • Edward Harris Kase, Papyrus in the Princeton University Collections II (Princeton: 1936), pp. 1–3.

Images

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20081202042226/http://libweb.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/aids/papyri/APISJames2.html 𝔓54 at the Princeton University Library Papyrus]