![]() 5 It is unknown whether the codex was enclosed in a leather cover or one of another material. : 54 This hypothesis is attributed to the use of gatherings of two leaves, known as a single- quire, whereas most other codices were made from multiple pages in a single quire (all pages put on top of each other, then folded in the middle to make a single block), or of multiple pages split into several quires (groups of 8–10 pages laid on top of each other, then folded in half to make separate blocks), which were then stitched together to make a full volume. : 54 Unlike many of the other surviving manuscripts from the 3rd century which usually contained just the Gospels, or just the Catholic letters, or just the Pauline epistles, this manuscript possibly contained more than one grouping of New Testament texts. : 54 The original pages were roughly 10 inches by 8 inches. : 54 The leaves of Matthew and John are only extant in small fragments, which have to be pieced together in order to make up a page. All of the pages have gaps, with very few lines complete. The order of fibres in the quire may thus be designated V-H-H-V, and this sequence is a vital factor in the reconstruction of the manuscript. : 54 It was made up of quires of two leaves (four pages) only, which were formed by folding a single sheet of papyrus in half, with the horizontal fibres (due to how papyrus is made from strips of the papyrus plant) facing each other on the inside pages, while the outsides had the vertical fibres. The papyrus was bound in a codex (the forerunner to the modern book), which may have consisted of 220 pages, however only 30 survive (two of Matthew, six of Mark, seven of Luke, two of John, and thirteen of Acts). The manuscript is heavily damaged and fragmented. ![]() In November 2020, the CSNTM in conjunction with Hendrickson Publishers released a new 1:1 high-resolution imaged facsimile edition of □ 45 on black and white backgrounds, along with □ 46 and □ 47. 25:41–26:39 which is at the Papyrus Collection of the Austrian National Library in Vienna ( Pap. : vii The manuscript is currently housed at the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Ireland, except for one leaf containing Matt. : 134 It contains verses in fragmentary form from the texts of Matthew chapters 20–21 and 25–26 Mark chapters 4–9 and 11–12 Luke chapters 6–7 and 9–14 John chapters 4–5 and 10–11 and Acts chapters 4–17. This therefore makes it the earliest example of not only the four Gospels contained in one volume, but also the Acts of the Apostles. Using the study of comparative writing styles ( palaeography), it has been dated to the early 3rd century CE. : 121, 118 Manuscripts among the Chester Beatty Papyri have had several places of discovery associated with them, the most likely being the Faiyum in Egypt (the dry sands of Egypt have been a haven for finding very early manuscripts since the late 1800s). Beatty purchased the manuscript in the 1930s from an Egyptian book dealer, and it was subsequently published in The Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri, Descriptions and Texts of Twelve Manuscripts on Papyrus of the Greek Bible by palaeographer, biblical and classical scholar Frederic G. Chester Beatty I), designated by siglum □ 45 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), is an early Greek New Testament manuscript written on papyrus, and is one of the manuscripts comprising the Chester Beatty Papyri, a group of early Christian manuscripts discovered in the 1930s, and purchased by business man and philanthropist, Alfred Chester Beatty. Kenyon, The Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri (London: E. ![]() Folios 13-14 with part of the Gospel of Lukeį.G.
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