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Papyrus **134**
New Testament manuscript
Name	Willoughby Papyrus
Sign	𝔓
Text	John 1:49-51; 2:1
Date	3rd or 4th century
Script	Greek
Found	Antiquities Market, purchased by Harold R. Willoughby
Now at	University of Texas Harry Ransom Center, Austin, Texas
Cite	Geoffrey Smith, The Willoughby Papyrus: A New Fragment of John 1:49–2:1 (P134) and an Unidentified Christian Text, vol. 136, no. 4, p.935-958, Journal of Biblical Literature: Boston, MA, 2018.
Type	Alexandrian

Papyrus 134 (designated as 𝔓 in the Gregory-Aland numbering system) is a small surviving portion of an early copy of part of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of John. The text survives in three discontinuous fragments on one side of a scroll containing parts of verses 1:49,50,51 and 2:1. The manuscript has been assigned paleographically to the third or fourth century.

Location

𝔓 is housed at the University of Texas Harry Ransom Center, Austin, Texas, in the United States.

Textual variants

1:49: According to the reconstruction of Smith, it reads ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ ΕΙ (You are King) along with 𝔓 02 03 032, versus ΕΙ Ο ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ (You are the King) found in 𝔓 01 Byz.
1:50: According to the reconstruction of Smith, it contains the majority reading ΜΕΙΖΩ versus ΜΕΙΖΩΝΑ of 𝔓 and ΜΕΙΖΩΝ of 𝔓, all meaning "greater than".
1:51: It contains the Alexandrian reading without ΑΠ ΑΡΤΙ (from now on).
2:1: According to the reconstruction of Smith, it lacks ΤΗ ΗΜΕΡΑ (on the day), with 03.

History

The manuscript was purchased on the antiquities market by Harold R. Willoughby, professor of early Christianity at the University of Chicago, before 1962. In 1990 it was passed it on to a relative in North Haverhill, NH, who listed it for sale on eBay in 2015. Geoffrey S. Smith, an associate professor and director of University of Texas at Austin's Institute for the Study of Antiquity and Christian Origins in the Department of Religious Studies, saw the listing and arranged for its purchase through the donation of a generous alumnus. It is the first New Testament continuous text that textual scholars have found written on the back of a scroll rather than in a codex, using the blank side of a scroll containing an unidentified Christian text.

References

"The Willoughby Papyrus: A New Fragment of John 1:49–2:1 (P134) and an Unidentified Christian Text, vol. 136, no. 4, p.935-958". Boston, MA: Journal of Biblical Literature. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
"Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
"A New Papyrus of the Gospel of John". Evangelical Textual Criticism Blog. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
"Rare Papyrus Fragment of the Gospel of John Now at the Harry Ransom Center". Austin: University of Texas. Retrieved 25 February 2023.

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