Papyrus 𝔓⁴⁷

New Testament manuscript
Text	Book of Revelation 9:10-17:2 †
Date	3rd century
Script	Greek
Found	Egypt
Now at	Chester Beatty Library
Cite	F. G. Kenyon, The Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri III, (London, 1934).
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	I
Note	close to Sinaiticus, 0308

Papyrus 47 (P. Chester Beatty III), designated by siglum 𝔓⁴⁷ (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. Manuscripts among the Chester Beatty Papyri have had several places of discovery associated with them, the most likely being the Faiyum.^[1] Using the study of comparative writing styles (palaeography), it has been dated to the early 3rd century CE.^[2] The codex contains text from the Book of Revelation chapters 9 through 17. It is currently housed at the Chester Beatty Library (Inv. 14. 1. 527) in Dublin.^[3][4]

In November 2020, the CSNTM in conjunction with Hendrickson Publishers released a new 1:1 high-resolution imaged facsimile edition of 𝔓⁴⁷ on black and white backgrounds, along with 𝔓⁴⁵ and 𝔓⁴⁶.^[5]

The manuscript is a codex (precursor to the modern book), written with black ink on papyrus. The manuscript is quite fragmented, containing the text of Revelation 9:10-11:3; 11:5-16:15; and 16:17-17:2. The Greek text of this codex is considered a representative of the Alexandrian text-type (the text-types are groups of different manuscripts which share specific or generally related readings, which then differ from each other group, and thus the conflicting readings can separate out the groups, which are then used to determine the original text as published; there are three main groups with names: Alexandrian, Western, and Byzantine).^{[6]: 205–230} Biblical scholar Kurt Aland ascribed it as a Normal text, and placed it in Category I.^[3]

The text of this manuscript is closest to Codex Sinaiticus (א‎), and together they are witnesses for one of the early textual types of the Book of Revelation.^[7] Another type is represented by the manuscripts Papyrus 115 (𝔓¹¹⁵), Codex Alexandrinus (A), and Codex Ephraemi (C).^[7] The text in 𝔓⁴⁷-א‎ is considered to be an inferior witness to the text of Revelation as opposed to that of 𝔓¹¹⁵-A-C.^{[7]: 76, 301, 391}

• List of New Testament papyri

• Kenyon, Frederic G. (1934). The Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri, Descriptions and Texts of Twelve Manuscripts on Papyrus of the Greek Bible: Fasciculus III - Pauline Epistles and Revelation (Text) (PDF). London: Emery Walker Limited. pp. xi–xiii, 17–35.
• Kenyon, Frederic G. (1936). The Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri, Descriptions and Texts of Twelve Manuscripts on Papyrus of the Greek Bible: Fasciculus III - Revelation (Plates) (PDF). London: Emery Walker Limited.
• Comfort, Philip Wesley; David P. Barrett (2001). The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts. Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers. pp. 335–351. ISBN 978-0-8423-5265-9.
• Malik, Peter (2017). P. Beatty III (𝔓⁴⁷): The Codex, Its Scribe, and Its Text. New Testament Tools, Studies, and Documents. Vol. 52. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-34043-5.

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