For some time now, the Rylands Library at the University of Manchester has hosted good digital images of P.Ryl. Gr. 3 457 (a.k.a. P52), the fragment of the Gospel According to John. I recently visited the University of Manchester’s LUNA viewer to see what the permissions currently were for these images, and it seems that the library made new images in 2019 and again in 2024 (the 2024 images seem to have been taken in normal light and on a light table).

These new images are excellent. One can really zoom in and see the details of the script and the surface of the papyrus.

See the full images here: recto and verso.

I remember being thrilled with the digital images that the library supplied for me back in 2004, which were very good by the standards of the time. Thanks to the Rylands Library for keeping up with improving photographic technology.