Papyrus 12 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), α 1033 (in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts), designated by siglum 𝔓¹², is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Epistle to the Hebrews but only containing Hebrews 1:1. Using the study of comparative writing styles (palaeography), it has been assigned to ca. 285. It may have been a writing exercise or an amulet.^[1]

The verse has been written at the top of the second column by another (likely later) writer in three lines.^[1]: 82 It has been written in a small uncial hand.^[2] On the verso of this manuscript another writer has penned Genesis 1:1-5 according to Septuagint.^[1]

Text

πολυμερως κ πολυ[τρο]πως

παλε ο θς λαλήσ[α]ς το[ις π]ατρα

σ[ι] ημ[ω]ν εν τοις προ[φηταις]^[2]

It has error of itacism (παλε instead of παλαι), the nomina sacra contracted (ΘΣ).

The Greek text of this small portion of Hebrews is probably a representative of the Alexandrian text-type, but its text is too brief for certainty. Aland placed it in Category I of his New Testament manuscript classification system.^[3]

It supports the textual variant ημων as in codices 𝔓^46c a t v vg^mss syr^p.^[4]

The manuscript was discovered in 1897 by Grenfell and Hunt.^[1]

It is currently housed at The Morgan Library & Museum (Pap. Gr. 3; P. Amherst 3b) in New York City.^[3][5][6]

• List of New Testament papyri
• Papyrus Amherst 3a