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Text
  
Romans 1-4; 6; 9 †

Script
  
Greek

Date
  
3rd century

Found
  
Egypt

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Now at
  
University of Heidelberg

Cite
  
F. Bilabel, Römerbrieffragmente, VBP IV, (Heidelberg 1924), 28-31

Papyrus 40 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by P 40, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. The manuscript paleographically has been assigned to the 3rd century. It is carelessly written.

Description

It is a papyrus manuscript of the Epistle to the Romans, it contains Romans 1:24-27; 1:31-2:3; 3:21-4:8; 6:4-5.16; 9:16-17.27.

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type, rather proto-Alexandrian, Aland named it as "Free text", and placed it in Category I because of its date.

This manuscript is closer to Codex Sinaiticus than to Codex Alexandrinus and Vaticanus.

It is currently housed at the Papyrussammlung der Universität in the University of Heidelberg (Inv. no. 45).

References

Papyrus 40 Wikipedia
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