Papyrus 99

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{New Testament manuscript infobox

|form = Papyrus

|number= 99

|image =

|caption=

|name = P. Chester Beatty 1499

|sign = 𝔓99

|text = A glossary(?) - single words and phrases from some Pauline epistle.

|script= Greek-Latin

|date = ca. 400

|found =

|now at= Chester Beatty Library

|cite =

|size = 16.8 by 13.6

|type =

|cat =

|hand =

|note =

}}

Papyrus 99 (Gregory-Aland), designated by 𝔓99, is an early papyrus manuscript with quotations from the Pauline epistles of the New Testament in Greek-Latin. Four leaves have survived.K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, [https://books.google.com/books?id=n6t_z6q2ivwC&dq=Kurzgefasste+Liste+der+griechischen+Handschriften+des+Neues+Testaments&pg=PR3 Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments], (Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1994), p. 16. {{ISBN|3-11-011986-2}}{{Cite web|url=http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php?ObjID=10099|title= Liste Handschriften|publisher=Institute for New Testament Textual Research|access-date=27 August 2011|location=Münster}}

Description

This papyrus is part of the Chester Beatty collection. It is usually considered as a glossary with single words and phrases from:

  • Rom 1:1;
  • 2 Cor 1:3-6, 1:6-17, 1:20-24, 2:1-9, 2:9-5:13, 5:13-6:3, 6:3-8:13, 8:14-22, 9:2-11:8, 11:9-23, 11:26-13:11;
  • Gal 1:4-11, 1:18-6:15, 1:14-2:4, 2:4-3:19, 3:19-4:9;
  • Eph 1:4-2:21, 1:22(?), 3:8-6:24

The text is written in 1 column per page, 27-30 lines per page.

It also contains a Latin lexicon and Greek grammar.[http://www.trismegistos.org/ldab/text.php?tm=61873 The Chester Beatty codex AC 1499] LDAB

Elliot calls this papyrus '... a haphazard collection of unconnected verses from the Pauline letters [that] could have been a school exercise ...'Elliot (2005), JK, Absent witnesses?, p. 50, in The Reception of the New Testament in the Apostolic Fathers, Gregory, Andrew F. & Tuckett, Christopher Mark,(eds), Oxford University Press, {{ISBN|978-0-19-926782-8}}

The manuscript is housed at the Chester Beatty Library (P. Chester B. Ac. 1499, fol 11–14) in Dublin.

See also

References

Further reading

  • Wouters (1988), Alfons, The Chester Beatty Codex AC 1499, a Graeco-Latin lexicon on the Pauline Epistles, and a Greek grammar, Peeters, {{ISBN|978-90-6831-124-2}}
  • Dickey (2019), Emily A Re-Examination of New Testament Papyrus P99 (Vetus Latina AN glo Paul), New Testament Studies. Cambridge University Press, 65(1), pp. 103–121. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0028688518000243.