Papyrus 112 designated by ¹¹², is a copy of the New Testament

New Testament

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 in Greek

Greek language

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. It is a papyrus

Papyrus

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 manuscript

Manuscript

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 of the Acts of the Apostles

Acts of the Apostles

The Acts of the Apostles , usually referred to simply as Acts, is the fifth book of the New Testament; Acts outlines the history of the Apostolic Age...

. The surviving texts of Acts are verses 26:31-32; 27:6-7, they are in a fragmentary condition. The manuscript palaeographically

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 has been assigned by the INTF

Institute for New Testament Textual Research

The Institute for New Testament Textual Research at the University of Münster, Westphalia, Germany, is an institute for the investigation of the text of the New Testament. The INTF was founded in Münster in 1959 by Professor Kurt Aland , the first director of the Institute...

 to the 5th century.

The manuscript is currently housed at the Sackler Library

Sackler Library

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 (Papyrology Rooms, P. Oxy. 4496) at Oxford

Oxford

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Text

In Acts 27:7 it has textual variant βρα[δυπλοουντε]ς εν δε ικαν[αις ημεραις. Αll other witnesses have this sentence in the word order: εν ικαναις δε ημεραις βραδυπλοουντες.

The text is to small to determine its textual character.

Images

• P.Oxy.LXIV 4496 from Papyrology at Oxford's "POxy: Oxyrhynchus Online"
• Image from ¹¹² recto, fragment of Acts 26:31-32
• Image from ¹¹² verso, fragment of Acts 27:6-7

Official registration

• "Continuation of the Manuscript List" Institute for New Testament Textual Research, University of Münster. Retrieved April 9, 2008