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Papyrus Oxyrhynchus L 3525 is a copy of the apocryphal
Gospel of Mary The Gospel of Mary is a non-canonical text discovered in 1896 in a 5th-century papyrus codex written in Sahidic Coptic. This Berlin Codex was purchased in Cairo by German diplomat Carl Reinhardt. Although the work is popularly known as the Gospe ...
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formed in a roll. The manuscript had been assigned palaeographically to the 3rd century. It is one of the three manuscripts and one of the two Greek manuscripts of the Gospel of Mary. It is shorter than
Papyrus Rylands 463 Papyrus Rylands 463 is a copy of the apocryphal Gospel of Mary in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript in roll form. The manuscript has been assigned palaeographically to the 3rd century. It is one of the three manuscripts and one of the two Greek m ...
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Description

It survives only as a small fragment of a single sheet (probably roll). The fragment is broken on all sides. The fragment covers the material contained in 9.1-10.10 of the Coptic manuscript. The reconstruction of the missing parts (especially the starts and ends of the lines) is not an easy task and depends on the Coptic text. There are some textual differences between the Greek fragment and the Coptic text. It was written in ca. 50 letters per line. The
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are written in abbreviated form. The manuscript was discovered in Oxyrhynchus. The text was edited by P. J. Parsons.P. J. Parsons, ''3525: Gospel of Mary'' (London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1983) The manuscript currently is housed at the Papyrology Rooms of the
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with the shelf number P. Oxy. L 3525.


See also

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Gospel of Mary The Gospel of Mary is a non-canonical text discovered in 1896 in a 5th-century papyrus codex written in Sahidic Coptic. This Berlin Codex was purchased in Cairo by German diplomat Carl Reinhardt. Although the work is popularly known as the Gospe ...
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Oxyrhynchus Papyri The Oxyrhynchus Papyri are a group of manuscripts discovered during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by papyrologists Bernard Pyne Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt at an ancient rubbish dump near Oxyrhynchus in Egypt (, mo ...
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Papyrus Rylands 463 Papyrus Rylands 463 is a copy of the apocryphal Gospel of Mary in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript in roll form. The manuscript has been assigned palaeographically to the 3rd century. It is one of the three manuscripts and one of the two Greek m ...


References


Further reading

* P. J. Parsons, ''3525: Gospel of Mary'', in ''The Oxyrhynchus Papyri'' (London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1983). * D. Lührmann, ''Die griechischen Fragmente des Mariaevangeliums POxy 3525 und PRyl 463'', Novun Testamentum 30 (1988), 321–338. * Christopher Mark Tuckett
''The Gospel of Mary''
Oxford University Press, Oxford 2007.


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P.Oxy.LXXII 3525
from Papyrology at Oxford's "POxy: Oxyrhynchus Online"
P. Oxy. 50.3525
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