New Testament manuscript | |
Name | P. Amherst 3b |
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Text | Epistle to the Hebrews 1 † |
Date | 3rd century |
Script | Greek |
Found | Egypt 1897 |
Now at | The Morgan Library & Museum |
Cite | B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, The Amherst Papyri I, (London 1900), pp. 28-31 (P. Amherst 3 b) |
Size | 20,8 cm x 23 cm |
Type | Alexandrian text-type ? |
Category | I |
Papyrus 12 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 1033 (in the Soden numbering), designated by siglum 𝔓12, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Epistle to the Hebrews, it contains only Hebrews 1:1. The manuscript palaeographically has been assigned to ca. 285. It may have been a writing exercise or an amulet.[1]
On the top of the second column another writer has penned Hebrews 1:1 in three lines.[2] It has been written in a small uncial hand.[3] On the verso of this manuscript another writer has penned Genesis 1:1-5 according to Septuaginta.[2]
It has error of itacism (παλε instead of παλαι), the nomina sacra contracted (θς).
The Greek text of this codex probably is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type, but its text is too brief for certainty. Aland placed it in Category I.[4]
It supports textual variant with ημων as in codices 𝔓46c a t v vgmss syrp.[5]
The manuscript was discovered in 1897 by Grenfell and Hunt.[2]
It is currently housed at The Morgan Library & Museum (Pap. Gr. 3; P. Amherst 3b) in New York City.[4][6][7]