Papyrus 56


Papyrus 56, signed by 56, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Acts of the Apostles, it contains only Acts 1:1.4-5.7.10-11.
The manuscript palaeographically has been assigned to the 5th century.
The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category II.
It is currently housed at the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek in Vienna.