How the First Copies of the New Testament were written on Papyrus with a Reed Pen. 

Sir, you are my hero! I too read Biblical Greek. I am a 65 years old and a retired man who have lived and worked around the world. My goal in retirement is to pick up this ancient art of calligraphy, so that I can write out the Gospel of Mark on papyrus or vellum and have it bound into a little book. Wonderful, wonderful video!

Damn. You can imagine how long it took them to make a copy. Wasn't like writing today. They were very intricate.

May the most holy, most sacred, most adorable, most incomprehensible and unutterable Name of God be always praised, blessed, loved, adored and glorified in Heaven, on earth, and under the earth, by all the creatures of God, and by the Sacred Heart of Our Lord Jesus Christ, in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. Amen.

Man, this is crazy stuff! I love it. So fascinating!

Wow... I just came across your video. You really know your subject, and you are using your art skills to serve your faith. Your finished project looks like the real thing! You are doing fine work here!

Fascinating video. I'm getting old and have poor vision, along with arthritic, neuropathic hands, so its' difficult to do the kind of writing and drawing I once did, but I still dabble. I love every form of writing/drawing instrument. I really can't do anything well enough to be paid for it now, or feel I can't, but I still do my best to write and sketch a bit each day. I stumbled on your video while looking for a source that still make papyrus. I've made a number of things to satisfy my love of writing, from ink to goatskin parchment, to feather quills, and even metal dip pen and fountain pen nibs. But never papyrus. Because of my vision and hands, I most often use fountain pens now, but as I said, I still dabble. Papyrus seemed a good place for a dabbler, and it's the area where I know the least. I knew goatskin parchment could still be found, but I didn't know papyrus was not only available, and also pretty cheap. The carbon ink the Greeks used wasn't waterproof. The ink China used, what we call "India" or "Indian" ink, was waterproof. When it's possible to test the ink on ancient documents, this is the easiest way to tell one from the other, although there is no mistaking high quality Chinese ink. The best of it is as beautiful today as when it was first put on paper. Anyway, wonderful video, and I'm looking forward to watching thers you have made. Thank you for the pleasure.

This is fantastic to see. I too am a scribe that works with Greek uncials on papyrus. I also do Hebrew of various styles and Egyptian hieratic. I have made a James codex. I have a question for you: What ink are you using? It appears to be far more diluted than the one I'm using. And how to you keep the pen from vomiting ink on the papyrus, or causing streaks in the papyrus fibers?

That was really great, thanks for sharing it!

I use calligraphy and Papyrus paper to create short poetry scrolls from my upcoming poetry anthology and it comes out beautifully. I also burn the edges to give it the illusion of being aged. But, I feel defeated with the final result because after all of my hard work, the papyrus curls up .sigh.....

What is your ink made from? How does it compare to ink used on original first century manuscripts?

Great job! Thanks!

Back then paper/papyrus was pricy, so they write small, they use all the space and they take their time writing it.

Sir, thank you for replying to my first email thanking you for your video. Please, just one more question - I won't become a groupie! The question is, "Can you recommend two or three suppliers of the writing instrument, ink, and papyrus or vellum? Many thanks again. God bless you, Dan

Hi there, this is fascinating. I've been very interested in the early manuscripts. I would love to see if it's possible to obtain or make requests of a copy of any of these replicas.

This video is absolutely powerful! There is no doubt at all with the Greece translation that this is the material they used to write the new testament scriptures. Where could I buy a reed pen? They are hard to find.

how did they rule the original copies? I assume they used something other than pencil, I don't think graphite was too common back in the day!

Congratulations, your video is amazing, i sarching a video that explaing how writing tje Holy New Testament. Blesings

What did they use for ink please?

how did you learn to write the Greek letters?

How about the ink ?

They were actually written on scrolls like the Jewish Greek fragments found among the Dead Sea scrolls or the Egyptian Nag Hamadi Greek scrolls. Codeces were probably a later Byzantine era innovation.

Do you know how to read and speak Koine Greek?