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Berlin Papyrus 16388, designated P25, preserves Matthew 18:32–34 and portions of 19:1–10 in an unusually paraphrastic Greek text whose possible relationship to Gospel harmony remains debated.
Papyrus P44, Metropolitan Museum of Art 14.1.527, comprises Greek lectionary fragments from Thebes dated about AD 580–640 and preserves selected passages from Matthew 17, 18, and 25 and John 10.
P.Oxy. XXIV 2385 is a late-fourth-century papyrus codex fragment preserving Matthew 19:10–11 and 17–18, including two noteworthy small-scale readings.
Papyrus P1, excavated at Oxyrhynchus in 1897, preserves two numbered pages from a third-century codex of Matthew 1, material evidence that the Gospel circulated in codex form in Roman Egypt.
A Herodian Cave 4 Psalms scroll preserves portions of at least fifteen psalms between 91 and 118, while sequence gaps and newly identified scraps make its original scope and arrangement a careful reconstruction.
Uncial 087 and 092b: Dispersed Gospel Fragments from Sinai is a separately registered physical witness to the copying and reception of Matthew 21:19–24; John 18:29–35; Mark 12:32–37, identified by its own GA number, shelfmark, date, layout, and custodial history.
The Rossano Gospels preserve Matthew and Mark in silver-and-gold Greek uncials on 188 purple parchment leaves, joined to fourteen Gospel miniatures and prophetic excerpts that reveal sixth-century textual, artistic, and interpretive practice.
The Book of Mulling is a compact eighth-century Irish Gospel book whose Latin text, Old Latin readings, portraits, and associated fragments document Insular copying and use of the four Gospels.
Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus preserves a fifth-century Greek Bible beneath a twelfth-century collection of Ephrem's works, making its erased, fragmentary undertext both a major New Testament witness and a case study in manuscript reuse.
Codex Purpureus Petropolitanus is a dispersed sixth-century Greek four-Gospel manuscript whose purple leaves, silver text, gold divine names, and recoverable readings survive across nine institutions, turning reconstruction into an international codicological task.
Codex Regius (GA 019) is a 8th century Greek parchment codex preserving the four Gospels with lacunae.
A nearly complete Greek Gospel book with interlinear Latin, preserved at the Abbey Library of St. Gall. Documents bilingual Gospel transmission, Western Greek learning, and the reception of all four canonical Gospels.
Codex Tischendorfianus IV (GA 036) is a distinct physical witness to the material transmission and reception of Scripture, identified by its own shelfmark, date, contents, and custodial history.
Codex Veronensis is a late-fifth-century purple parchment Gospel book at Verona whose silver-and-gold Latin text preserves a major Old Latin witness and a long history of cathedral use.
Silver and bronze coins dated by revolt years turned Temple imagery, festival plants, archaizing Hebrew, Jerusalem, Zion, freedom, and redemption into portable declarations during the war of AD 66-70.
Small bronze issues dated by Tiberius's regnal years to AD 29–32 provide year-specific administrative evidence for Pilate's Judaean prefecture and its Roman ritual imagery, while neither naming Jesus nor recording his trial.
A remodeled building buried before Dura-Europos fell in AD 256 preserves a font and early Christian paintings shaped around baptism and Gospel interpretation, even as scholars reconsider the familiar label “house church.”
A first-century ritual bath discovered at Gethsemane provides the first securely excavated remains from the New Testament period at the traditional locality.
A late-third-century papyrus from Oxyrhynchus preserves a Greek Christian hymn with vocal notation. Its call for the cosmos to praise Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is the earliest surviving substantial Christian song whose music can be read, though performance details remain uncertain.
Codex Sangallensis 51 is a complete Irish Gospel book from about AD 750, preserved at St. Gall with Latin text, Old Latin readings, evangelist portraits, carpet pages, and narrative Christian art.
Stockholm A 135 is an eighth-century luxury Gospel book from the Canterbury or Southumbrian world, preserving mixed Old Latin and Vulgate text, gold-and-silver writing, evangelist imagery, and a later ransom inscription.
The Book of Kells (Trinity College Dublin MS 58) is a distinct physical witness to the material transmission and reception of Scripture, identified by its own shelfmark, date, contents, and custodial history.
The Lindisfarne Gospels (Cotton MS Nero D IV) is a distinct physical witness to the material transmission and reception of Scripture, identified by its own shelfmark, date, contents, and custodial history.
A damaged Latin building dedication from Caesarea preserves Pontius Pilate's name and contemporary title, Prefect of Judaea, anchoring the Gospel governor in the administrative center and titulature of Roman Judaea.
Dated by inscription to AD 359, the monumental marble coffin of Rome's urban prefect Junius Bassus integrates ten biblical scenes with Roman elite art, revealing a newly baptized official's Christian funerary hope rather than illustrating one continuous narrative.