Papyrus 13

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New Testament manuscripts
papyri • uncials • minuscules
Papyrus P¹³
Text	Hebrews 2:14-5:5; 10:8-22; 10:29-11:13; 11:28-12:17
Date	225-250
Found	Oxyrynchus, Egypt
Now at	British Library/Medici Library
Cite	Grenfell & Hunt, Oxyrynchus Papyri 4:36-48. (#657) Vittorio Bartoletti and M Norsi, Papiri greci e latini della Società Italiana, vol. 12 (1951):209-210.
Size	12 columns of scroll; 23-27 lines/column; pagination legible: 47-50, 61-65, 67-69.
Type	often agrees with Vaticanus; 80% with P⁴⁶
Category	I
Note	largest papyrus other than Chester Beatty collection

Papyrus 13 (P¹³) is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It was copied on papyrus in the third century, at a date somewhere between 225-250 CE.

P¹³ was discovered by Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt. It is currently housed at the British and Medici Libraries.

The surviving text is twelve columns, of 23 to 27 lines each, from a scroll. This is all from the Epistle to the Hebrews, namely 2:14-5:5; 10:8-22; 10:29-11:13; 11:28-12:17. The page numbers suggest something preceded Hebrews in the original scroll.

The text-type is Alexandrian. P¹³ agrees closely with the text of Codex Vaticanus. It also has 80% agreement with P⁴⁶. It is the largest papyrus manuscript of the New Testament outside the Chester Beatty Papyri.

P¹³ is written on the verso (back) of the scroll, the recto (front) has part of the text of Livy's History of Rome, dated to around the year 200.^[1]

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^ Philip W Comfort and David P Barrett, The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts, (Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers Incorporated, 2001), pp. 83-92.