These are all free to share; no attribution required. As far as I can recall, the photos are all from Pixabay (or a similar free image site), and the Greek text is from the Byzantine GNT, which is licensed as public domain. Enjoy!

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Another “original Greek” artifact includes an interesting piece of pottery with the creed written on it (Accession number: 69.74.312, Israel Museum, Jerusalem). And then there’s P. Oxy. 1784, which may even be earlier than P6! Read all about it in The Oxyrhynchus Papyri Part XV by Grenfell and Hunt, page 17. You can check out an image of the papyrus P. Oxy. 1784 at the Atla Digital Library.

But I was unable to track down any complete copies of the Creed in ancient documents, so I decided I’d have to make my own!

First I had to locate a suitable blank piece of parchment, which I finally found at the British Library. Then I had to find a complementary font from my page of free Greek fonts. Next I took the digital text of the Nicene creed, removed all modern punctuation, spaces and diacritic markings, and arranged it on the parchment. I tried to match the line length and line spacing of the codex from the British Library as closely as possible to make it look realistic. Of course I needed to add some special effects to make the ink fade a little in places so it looked like it had been written several hundred years ago. Finally, I set it on a nice wooden table top!

It’s definitely not going to fool any paleographers, but I think it’s pretty cool, if I do say so myself!

Sources:

• Unicode text of the Nicene Creed – Σύμβολο της Πίστεως
• Blank parchment page – Royal MS 1 D VIII folio 1
• Free Greek uncial font – 0512 Dioskorides from KPS fonts
• Wooden texture – Photo by engin akyurt on Unsplash

Since the resulting image was created with free resources, I am making it available for free as well. Feel free to use, share and copy it freely without any restrictions from me!

Byzantine Texts

• Robinson-Pierpont Byzantine Textform, Public Domain. (PDF)
• Robinson-Pierpont Byzantine Textform (Readers Edition), Public Domain.
• Family 35 (Pickering), CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (plain text).
• Solid Rock GNT, Public Domain.
• Text Critical GNT, Public Domain/CC BY 4.0. (PDF)
• Antoniades’ 1904 Patriarchal edition, Public Domain.

Textus Receptus

• KJV Textus Receptus (from CNTR), CC BY 4.0.
• Stephanus 1550, (from CNTR), CC BY 4.0. [removes movable nu]
• Stephanus 1550, (from Maurice Robinson), public domain.

Critical Texts

• Tischendorf, 8th Ed., Public Domain.
• Tregelles, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
• Statistical Restoration GNT, CC BY 4.0.
• SBL GNT, (from Logos) CC BY 4.0.
• Unfolding Word GNT, CC BY-SA 4.0
• Westcott & Hort, CC BY-SA.
• Nestle 1904, Public Domain. (See also)
• Berean Greek Bible, custom license.

More Free Resources

If you’d like to dig further, check out these lists of more free original language resources:

• Awesome Bible Data
• Biblical Humanities
• Greek Bibles at ebible.org

I had some nice English stationery on hand, so I decided to try to make something similar in Greek! It’s not quite the same, but pretty close, eh?

Here’s a clearer view:

Download the full PDF here, so you can print it off yourself!

Printing instructions:
The PDF is formatted as letter size (11×8.5 inches).
Print in horizontal layout and set the scale to “None” or 100%.
Do NOT select “fit to page” or you’ll get the fine print at the bottom of the page.

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If you’d like to see some more stationery like this feel free to leave a comment below with suggestions for Bible verses, etc, and I’ll see what I can do.

Credits:
Free Font: Arima Madurai (Arima Greek)
Lighthouse photo by Stephen Bedase on Unsplash
Flourish image by Gordon Johnson from Pixabay