Papyrus 11

Papyrus $\mathfrak{P}$¹¹

New Testament manuscript papyri uncials minuscules lectionaries
Text	1 Corinthians 1-7 †
Date	7th century
Script	Greek
Found	Tischendorf 1862
Now at	Russian National Library
Cite	K. Aland, Neutestamentliche Papyri NTS 3 (1957), pp. 267-278.
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	II

Papyrus 11 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), signed by $\mathfrak{P}$¹¹, is a copy of a part of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the First Epistle to the Corinthians. It contains fragments 1 Corinthians 1:17-22; 2:9-12.14; 3:1-3,5-6; 4:3; 5:5-5.7-8; 6:5-9.11-18; 7:3-6.10-11.12-14. Only some portions of the codex can be read.^[1]

The manuscript palaeographically had been assigned to the 7th century.^[2]

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category II.^[2]

In 1 Corinthians 7:5 it reads τη προσευχη (prayer) – along with $\mathfrak{P}$⁴⁶, א*, A, B, C, D, F, G, P, Ψ, 6, 33, 81, 104, 181, 629, 630, 1739, 1877, 1881, 1962, it vg, cop, arm, eth; other manuscripts have reading τη νηστεια και τη προσευχη (fasting and prayer) or τη προσευχη και νηστεια (prayer and fasting).^[3][4]

The manuscript was discovered by Tischendorf in 1862.^[5]

It is currently housed at the Russian National Library (Gr. 258A) in Saint-Petersburg.^[2][6]

See also

• List of New Testament papyri
• Papyrus 14

References

1. Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung. p. 46.
2. 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. 96. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
3. NA26, p. 450.
4. UBS3, p. 591.
5. F. H. A. Scrivener, A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament (London 1894), p. 186.
6. "Handschriftenliste". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 23 August 2011.

Further reading

• K. Aland, Neutestamentliche Papyri NTS 3 (1957), pp. 267-278.
• A. H. Salonius, Die griechischen Handschriftenfragmente des Neuen Testaments in den Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, ZNW 26 (1927), pp. 97-119.
• Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung. p. 46.