As I was looking for something else, I happened across an image containing the end of 1 John and the beginning of 2 John in a copy of Alcuin's Vulgate Bible. Codex Vallicellianus is apparently representative of a Bible text overseen by Alcuin of York (740-804), at the dawn of the middle ages. The page providing this information must be taken with at least a grain of salt, however, given that the caption of the page image says that one should hover to enlarge the "papyrus" text. It is, of course, not papyrus.
It is quite old, however, and apparently a copy of a recension of the text by one of the leading scholars of Western Christianity at the time. Most interesting to me, it follows the Greek rather than the interpolation found in the King James Version at 1 John 5:7-8.
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