The Letters of Saint Paul

The Letters of Saint Paul

ca. AD 180-200

BP II (P46), bifolia 15v and 90v

Commentary:
Letter to the Romans 11: 13-22 and Letter to the Colossians 1: 5-12. The Chester Beatty papyrus codex of the Pauline Epistles is the earliest book of Saint Paul's letters in existence. It contains some of Paul's letters to the early Christian communities in Asia Minor. The pages were numbered in the upper margin, and enough page numbers have been preserved to establish the original formation of the volume. The entire codex would have consisted of 100 to 104 leaves, of which only 86 survive, 55 in Dublin and 30 in the library of the University of Michigan.