Papyrus 71

New Testament manuscript

Papyrus 𝔓⁷¹
New Testament manuscript

Name	P. Oxy. 2385
Text	Matthew 19 †
Date	4th century
Script	Greek
Found	Egypt
Now at	Ashmolean Museum
Cite	E. Lobel, C. H. Roberts, E. G. Turner, and J. W. B. Barns, OP XXIV (1957), pp. 5-6.
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	II

Papyrus 71 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by 𝔓⁷¹, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of Matthew. The surviving texts of Matthew are verses 19:10-11.17-18. The manuscript paleographically had been assigned to the 4th century.

Text

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category II.^[1]

Present location

It is currently housed at the Ashmolean Museum (P. Oxy. 2385) in Oxford.^[1]^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 100. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
^ "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 27 August 2011.