It originally formed part of a deluxe manuscript book collecting an extensive corpus of Christian texts.
Even allowing for the exceptionally large scale of the writing, and the relatively small parchment pages, this would imply the original codex must have contained a very substantial corpus of Christian writings; and would, for example, have been consistent with it containing the entirety of the eventual canon of Pauline and Catholic epistles.
These are then used to determine the original text as published; there are three main groups with names: Alexandrian, Western, and Byzantine.
[5] Textual critic and biblical scholar Kurt Aland placed it in Category III of his New Testament manuscript text classification system.
[9][2]: 74 The codex leaf is housed at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. Its previous home was the United Theological Seminary (name P. Oxy.