Papyrus 14

Papyrus ${\mathfrak {P}}$¹⁴

New Testament manuscript papyri uncials minuscules lectionaries
Text	1 Corinthians 1-3 †
Date	6th century
Script	Greek
Found	Mount Sinai, Rendel Harris
Now at	Saint Catherine's Monastery
Cite	James Rendel Harris, Biblical Fragments from Mount Sinai I, (London 1890), pp. 54-56
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	II

Papyrus 14 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 1036 (in the Soden's numbering), signed by ${\mathfrak {P}}$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]

Papyrus 14 as published by Harris in 1890

See also

• List of New Testament papyri
• Papyrus 11

References

1. Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 97. ISBN 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. "Handschriftenliste". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 23 August 2011.

Further reading

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