• Bifolio from Paul's Letter to the Romans, the end of Paul's Letter to the Philippians and the beginning of Paul's Letter to the Colossians.
  • Leaf from Papyrus 46 The earliest substantial New Testament manuscript known to exist is a slightly mutilated codex of Paul's epistles from about the year 200.
  • Papyrus 46 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), scribal abbreviation P46, is one of the oldest extant New Testament manuscripts in Greek, written on papyrus...
  • Papyrus 46 is said to be inscribed between 175 and 250 CE. It is the only surviving manuscripts of the New Testament.
  • About the New Testament Papyri: Many of these papyri show signs of being part of what is known as a codex, especially Papyrus 46.
  • Papyrus 46 (P-46), an incomplete papyrus codex containing most of the Pauline epistles in Greek, remains one of the oldest surviving manuscripts of some of the...
  • Known to New Testament (NT) scholars as P46 (for Papyrus 46), most of this codex survives today—part of it here at the University of Michigan, the rest in the...
  • Papyrus 46 (Inv. no. 6238), P46. Date. c. 200 CE (perhaps first half of the third century). Young Kyu Kim suggested that P46 should be dated to the first century.
  • On the difficulty of dating P-46 A first century date for this papyrus seems highly unlikely. But trying to date P-46 with any precision is very difficult.
  • Here are the disagreements between Papyrus 46 and Novum Testamentum Graece : 1 – P46 has ημων added above the text-line after πατράσιν.