Papyrus 56

Papyrus $\mathfrak{P}$⁵⁶

New Testament manuscript papyri uncials minuscules lectionaries
Name	Papyrus Vindobonensis Graecus 19918
Text	Acts 1 †
Date	5th / 6th century
Script	Greek
Found	Egypt
Now at	Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
Cite	P. Sanz, Mitteilungen aus der Papyrussammlung de österreichischen Nationalbibliothek in Wien, N.S., IV (Baden: 1946), pp. 65-66.
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	II

Papyrus 56 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), signed by $\mathfrak{P}$⁵⁶, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Acts of the Apostles, it contains only Acts 1:1.4-5.7.10-11.

The manuscript palaeographically has been assigned to the 5th century (or 6th century).

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category II.

It is currently housed at the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (Pap. Vindob. G. 19918) in Vienna.

See also

• List of New Testament papyri

Further reading

• Peter Sanz, Mitteilungen aus der Papyrussammlung de österreichischen Nationalbibliothek in Wien, N.S., IV (Baden: 1946), pp. 65–66.