Papyrus 40

Papyrus 𝔓⁴⁰

New Testament manuscript
Text	Romans 1–4; 6; 9 †
Date	3rd century
Script	Greek
Found	Egypt
Now at	University of Heidelberg
Cite	F. Bilabel, Römerbrieffragmente, VBP IV (Heidelberg 1924), 28–31
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	I

Papyrus 40 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by 𝔓⁴⁰, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. The manuscript paleographically has been assigned to the 3rd century.

It is a papyrus manuscript of the Epistle to the Romans, it contains Romans 1:24-27; 1:31-2:3; 3:21-4:8; 6:4-5.16; 9:16-17.27.

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type, rather proto-Alexandrian, Aland named it as "Free text", and placed it in Category I because of its date.^[1]

This manuscript is closer to Codex Sinaiticus than to Codex Alexandrinus and Vaticanus.^[2]

It is currently housed at the Papyrussammlung der Universität in the University of Heidelberg (Inv. no. 45).^[1][3]

• List of New Testament papyri

• Friedrich Bilabel, Römerbrieffragmente, VBP IV, (Heidelberg 1924), pp. 28–31.

• VBP IV 57
• P40 Heidelberg, Institut für Papyrologie Inv G 645, Digital MSI at CSNTM