Papyrus 56

Papyrus 56 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), signed by 𝔓56, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Acts of the Apostles, it contains only Acts 1:1.4-5.7.10-11.

The manuscript palaeographically has been assigned to the 5th century (or 6th century).

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category II.

It is currently housed at the Papyrus Collection of the Austrian National Library (Pap. Vindob. G. 19918) in Vienna.

See also

List of New Testament papyri

References

Further reading

Peter Sanz, Mitteilungen aus der Papyrussammlung de österreichischen Nationalbibliothek in Wien, N.S., IV (Baden: 1946), pp. 65–66.