Papyrus 54

Papyrus ${\mathfrak {P}}$⁵⁴

New Testament manuscript papyri uncials minuscules lectionaries
Name	P. Princeton
Text	Epistle of James 2; 3 †
Date	5th / 6th century
Script	Greek
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
Category	III/II

Papyrus 54 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by siglum ${\mathfrak {P}}$⁵⁴, 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).^[1]

It is currently housed at the Princeton University Library (P. Princ. 15; earlier Garrett Depots 7742) in Princeton, New Jersey.^[1][2]

See also

• List of New Testament papyri
• Princeton Papyri

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. 99. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
2. "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 26 August 2011.

Further reading

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

Images

• Image of ${\mathfrak {P}}$⁵⁴ folio 1 recto
• Image of ${\mathfrak {P}}$⁵⁴ folio 1 verso
• ${\mathfrak {P}}$⁵⁴ at the Princeton University Library Papyrus

External links

• Robert B. Waltz. 'NT Manuscripts: Papyri, Papyri ${\mathfrak {P}}$⁵⁴