Papyrus 49
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New Testament manuscript |
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recto with text of Eph 4:16-29
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| Name | Papyrus Yale 415 |
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| Text | Epistle to the Ephesians 4-5 † |
| Date | 3rd century |
| Script | Greek |
| Found | Egypt |
| Now at | Yale University Library |
| Cite | W. H. P. Hatch and C. B. Welles, A Hitherto Unpublished Fragment of the Epistle to the Ephesians, HTR LI (1958), pp. 33-37. |
| Size | 18 x 25 |
| Type | Alexandrian text-type |
| Category | I |
Papyrus 49 (Gregory-Aland), designated by 49, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Epistle to the Ephesians, surviving in a fragmentary condition. The manuscript has been palaeographically assigned to the 3rd century. It was probably a part of the same manuscript as Papyrus 65. It came from Egypt and was purchased for the Yale University Library. Textually it is close to the Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus. The text of the manuscript has been published several times.
The original size of the leaf was 18 centimetres in height by 25 centimetres in width. The leaf is damaged at the top, and six lines of its text have been lost. At the present time the leaf measures 20.3 cm by 13.3 cm. The lower and outer margins are 3 centimetres wide; the upper and inner margins were lost.
The manuscript has survived in a fragmentary condition and contains the texts of Ephesians 4:16-29; 4:31-5:13. According to Kurt Aland, it is one of three early manuscripts with the text of the Epistle to the Ephesians.
The text is written in one column per page of 29 lines, with 38 letters per line (average). It has no breathings (spiritus asper, spiritus lenis) nor accents. The double point (:) is the only mark of punctuation. The letters are slightly inclined to the right; the writing shows the influence of cursive handwriting. It was written by a professional scribe. The nomina sacra are written in an abbreviated way.
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