Papyrus 𝔓⁴¹

New Testament manuscript
Recto and verso of all fragments composing Ms Papyrus 41
Text	Acts 17-22 †
Date	8th century
Script	Greek-Coptic diglot
Found	Egypt
Now at	Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
Cite	C. Wessely, Stud zur Pal und Pap XV, (Leipzig 1914), pp. 107-118.
Type	Western text-type
Category	III

Papyrus 41 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by 𝔓⁴¹, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek and Coptic. It is a diglot, it is a papyrus manuscript of the Acts of the Apostles. The manuscript paleographically has been assigned to the 8th century.

Description

Contents

The Greek text of the papyrus contains: Acts 17:28-18:2.17-18.22-25.27; 19:1-4.6-8.13-16.18-19; 20:9-13.15-16.22-24.26-38; 21:3.4.26-27; 22:11-14.16-17.

The Coptic text of the papyrus contains: Acts 17:30-18:2.25.27-28; 19:2-8.15.17-19; 20:11-16.24-28; 20:36-21:3; 22:12-14.16-17.

Text-type

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Western text-type. Aland placed it in Category III.^[1]

Textual variants

In Acts 21:1 it reads Παταρα και Μυρα for Παταρα, the reading is supported by D^gr gig (it^ph Hyram) vg^mss cop^sa;^[2]

Location

It is currently housed at the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (Pap. G. 17973, 26133, 35831, 39783) in Vienna.^[1][3]

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  (K 7377) recto Acts 20, 28–31
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  (K 7377) verso Acts 20, 32–35
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  (K 7426) recto Acts 20, 28–31
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  (K 7426) verso Acts 20, 32–35
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  (K 7541) recto Acts 17, 28–31
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  (K 7541) verso Acts 17, 34–18, 2
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  (K 7542) recto Acts 18, 24–25
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  (K 7542) verso Acts 18, 27
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  (K 7543) recto Acts 19, 1–4
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  (K 7543) verso Acts 19, 6–8
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  (K 7544) recto Acts 19, 13–16
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  (K 7544) verso Acts 19, 18–19
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  (K 7546) recto Acts 20, 22–24
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  (K 7546) verso Acts 20, 26–28
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  (K 7545) recto Acts 20, 9–13
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  (K 7545) verso Acts 20, 15–16
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  (K 7547) recto Acts 20, 35–38
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  (K 7547) verso Acts 21, 1–3
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  (K 7548) recto Acts 22, 11–14
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  (K 7548) verso Acts 22, 16–17
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  (K 7731) recto Acts 20, 28–31
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  (K 7731) verso Acts 20, 32–35
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  (K 7912) recto Acts 21, 24–25
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  (K 7912) verso Acts 21, 26–27
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  (K 7384) recto Acts 18, 21–23
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  (K 7384) verso Acts 18, 17–18
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  (K 7396) recto Acts 18, 21–23
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  (K 7396) verso Acts 18, 17–18
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  (K 7914) recto Acts 18, 21–23
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  (K 7914) verso Acts 18, 17–18

See also

• List of New Testament papyri
• Coptic versions of the Bible

References

Further reading

• C. Wessely, Studien zur Paläographie und Papyruskunde XV, (Leipzig 1914), pp. 107–118.
• F.-J. Schmitz, Neue Fragmente zum P⁴¹, (Münster 1988), pp. 78–97.