The Rylands Papyri are a collection of thousands of papyrus fragments and documents from North Africa and Greece housed at the John Rylands University Library, Manchester, UK. The collection includes the Rylands Library Papyrus P52, also known as the "St John's fragment", a fragment from a papyrus codex, generally accepted as the earliest extant record of a Canonical gospel.[1][2]
- ^ See 7Q5 for an alternate candidate.
- ^ "N.T. Ancient Manuscripts", List of Ancient New Testament Manuscripts. Archived 2009-02-03 at the Wayback Machine