V 840), found in 1905, is a single small vellum parchment leaf with 45 lines of text written on both sides in a tiny neat hand that dates it to the 4th century, almost square, less than 10 cm across.
In his introduction in The Complete Gospels, Philip Sellew notes that this fragment was likely a talisman text, kept as an amulet, perhaps worn around the neck.
Michael J. Kruger, who did his PhD dissertation on this fragment,[2] concludes that this could be not an amulet[clarification needed] but a miniature codex.
The fragment begins with the end of a warning to an evildoer who plans ahead, yet fails to take the next life into account.
Two of the longer ones are parallel to Mark 2:17 and Luke 9:50, but the differences in phrasing show they are textually independent of the Gospels.