Papyrus 86 (in the
Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by
siglum
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𝔓
86, is an early copy of the
New Testament
The New Testament grc, Ἡ Καινὴ Διαθήκη, transl. ; la, Novum Testamentum. (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon. It discusses the teachings and person of Jesus, as well as events in first-century Chri ...
in
Greek
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Greece
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*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
. It is a
papyrus
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manuscript
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of the
Gospel of Matthew
The Gospel of Matthew), or simply Matthew. It is most commonly abbreviated as "Matt." is the first book of the New Testament of the Bible and one of the three synoptic Gospels. It tells how Israel's Messiah, Jesus, comes to his people and form ...
. The manuscript
palaeographically has been assigned to the 4th century.
The surviving texts of Matthew are verses 5:13-16, 22-25.
; Text
The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the
Alexandrian text-type.
Aland placed it in
Category II,
it means, it has some alien readings.
; Location
It is currently housed at the ''Institut für Altertumskunde'' in
University of Cologne
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(P. Col. theol. 5516) in
Cologne
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.
See also
* List of New Testament papyri
A New Testament papyrus is a copy of a portion of the New Testament made on papyrus. To date, over 140 such papyri are known. In general, they are considered the earliest witnesses to the original text of the New Testament.
This elite status amo ...
References
Further reading
* C. Charalambakis, D. Hagedorn, D. Kaimakis, and L. Thüngen, ''Vier literarische Papyri der Kölner Sammlung,'' no. 4, ''Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik'' 14 (Barcelona: 1974), pp. 37–40.
* B. Kramer and D. Hagedorn, ''Papyrologica Coloniensia'' VII, 2 (Cologne, 1978), pp. 88–89.
Images
Leaf from 𝔓86 recto
Leaf from 𝔓86 verso
New Testament papyri
4th-century biblical manuscripts
Gospel of Matthew papyri
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