papyrus · Greek · NT

Papyrus P75 (Bodmer XIV-XV)

Also known as: Hanna Papyrus 1

AD 175 – AD 225 (~AD 200) · dated by paleography

Evidence card

A quick read on the physical object before the interpretive summary.

2 sources

Artifact

papyrus · Greek

Date basis

AD 175 – AD 225 (~AD 200) · paleography

Survival

~50% physically present

Contents

Luke Most of Luke 3-24; John Most of John 1-15

Artifact/map cue

Held at Vatican Apostolic Library (since 2007) · Discovery: c. 1952, Egypt

Date

AD 175 – AD 225 (~AD 200)

Passage represented

Luke Most of Luke 3-24; John Most of John 1-15

Fragmentary or partial witness

How much survives

~50% of the claimed text is physically present

Why it matters

Textually closer to Codex Vaticanus than any other manuscript — strong evidence that Vaticanus's text type goes back at least to ~AD 200, not a 4th-century recension. This is the single strongest piece of evidence that the careful Alexandrian text is genuinely early.

What it contains

Luke — Most of Luke 3-24 (partial)
John — Most of John 1-15 (partial)

~50% of the claimed text is physically present.

Notable readings

Luke 22:43-44

Bloody sweat in Gethsemane is OMITTED in P75

Suggests this dramatic detail was added later. Modern translations often bracket it.

Luke 23:34

'Father, forgive them' is OMITTED in P75

One of the most famous sayings of Jesus — missing from the earliest witness. Bracketed in critical editions.

Where & when

Held at: Vatican Apostolic Library (since 2007)
Discovery: c. 1952, Egypt

Source trail

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