P46 — Paul's letters, about AD 200
Paul's letters were copied and bound as a collection within roughly a century and a half of being written.
Lave'i 'i tu'a mei he Tohi TapuTohi nimac. AD 175–225
Eighty-six surviving leaves of a codex containing most of Paul's letters, copied around AD 200 — within about 150 years of the letters themselves, and centuries before the great parchment Bibles. It shows the letters already circulating as a collection.
Romans, Hebrews, 1–2 Corinthians, Ephesians, Galatians, Philippians, Colossians, 1 Thessalonians — bound as one book.
- Na'e 'ilo'i
- Egypt, 1930 — Acquired by Chester Beatty and the University of Michigan
- 'Oku tauhi 'i
- Chester Beatty Library, Dublin; University of Michigan
- Lea
- Greek
- Na'e a'u mai fēfē kiate kitautolu
- Na'e keli hake, pe 'oku kei tu'u 'i he potu na'e langa ai.
Ko e me'a 'oku ne fakahā
Dating rests on handwriting and is given as a range; proposals run from the late second to the third century.
Founga hono ngāue'aki 'e he kau hisitōlia
One of the most important New Testament papyri, standard in textual criticism.
'I he Folofola
Fekau'aki mo
Ngaahi ma'u'anga fakamatala
- Kenyon, The Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri (1933–37)
'Oku 'i he lea faka-Pilitānia 'a e ngaahi fakamatala ko 'eni he taimi ni. 'E muimui mai 'a e liliu.