Papyrus 99 (Gregory-Aland), designated by 𝔓99, is an early papyrus manuscript with quotations from the Pauline epistles of the New Testament in Greek-Latin. Four leaves have survived.K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments, (Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1994), p. 16.
Description This papyrus is part of the Chester Beatty collection. It is usually considered as a glossary with single words and phrases from: Rom 1:1; 2 Cor 1:3-6, 1:6-17, 1:20-24, 2:1-9, 2:9-5:13, 5:13-6:3, 6:3-8:13, 8:14-22, 9:2-11:8, 11:9-23, 11:26-13:11; Gal 1:4-11, 1:18-6:15, 1:14-2:4, 2:4-3:19, 3:19-4:9; Eph 1:4-2:21, 1:22(?), 3:8-6:24
The text is written in 1 column per page, 27-30 lines per page.
It also contains a Latin lexicon and Greek grammar.The Chester Beatty codex AC 1499 LDAB
Elliot calls this papyrus '... a haphazard collection of unconnected verses from the Pauline letters [that] could have been a school exercise ...'Elliot (2005), JK, Absent witnesses?, p. 50, in The Reception of the New Testament in the Apostolic Fathers, Gregory, Andrew F. & Tuckett, Christopher Mark,(eds), Oxford University Press,
The manuscript is housed at the Chester Beatty Library (P. Chester B. Ac. 1499, fol 11–14) in Dublin.
See also List of New Testament papyri
References
Further reading Wouters (1988), Alfons, The Chester Beatty Codex AC 1499, a Graeco-Latin lexicon on the Pauline Epistles, and a Greek grammar, Peeters, Dickey (2019), Emily A Re-Examination of New Testament Papyrus P99 (Vetus Latina AN glo Paul), New Testament Studies. Cambridge University Press, 65(1), pp. 103–121. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0028688518000243.
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