papyrus · Greek · NT
Papyrus P72 (Bodmer VII-VIII)
AD 250 – AD 350 (~AD 300) · dated by paleography
Evidence card
A quick read on the physical object before the interpretive summary.
Artifact
papyrus · Greek
Date basis
AD 250 – AD 350 (~AD 300) · paleography
Survival
~100% physically present
Contents
1-peter; 2-peter; jude
Artifact/map cue
Held at Vatican Apostolic Library / Fondation Bodmer · Discovery: c. 1952, Egypt
Date
AD 250 – AD 350 (~AD 300)
Passage represented
1-peter; 2-peter; jude
How much survives
~100% of the claimed text is physically present
Why it matters
The earliest complete copies of 1-2 Peter and Jude. Notable for being part of a miscellaneous codex that mixes canonical books with non-canonical works (Nativity of Mary, 3 Corinthians, Odes of Solomon, Melito's Homily on the Pascha) — showing what 'a Bible' actually looked like to a 3rd/4th-century reader.
What it contains
- 1-peter
- 2-peter
- jude
~100% of the claimed text is physically present.
Where & when
- Held at
- Vatican Apostolic Library / Fondation Bodmer
- Discovery
- c. 1952, Egypt
Source trail
Named catalogues, editions, libraries, or scholarship used for this manuscript page.
Citation cue
Testuz 1959