Papyrus 51

Papyrus ${\mathfrak {P}}$⁵¹

New Testament manuscript papyri uncials minuscules lectionaries
Name	P. Oxy. 2157
Text	Galatians 1 †
Date	ca. 400
Script	Greek
Found	Egypt
Now at	Ashmolean Museum
Cite	E. Lobel, C. H. Roberts, E. P. Wegener, Oxyrhynchus Papyri XVIII (London: 1941), pp. 1-3.
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	II

Papyrus 51 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by siglum ${\mathfrak {P}}$⁵¹, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Epistle to the Galatians, it contains only Gal. 1:2-10.13.16-20. The manuscript paleographically has been assigned to the 4th or 5th century.^[1]

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

It is currently housed at the Ashmolean Museum (P. Oxy 2157) in Oxford.^[1][2]

See also

• List of New Testament papyri

References

1. 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. 99. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
2. "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 26 August 2011.

Further reading

• Edgar Lobel, Colin H. Roberts, and E. P. Wegener, Oxyrhynchus Papyri XVIII (London: 1941), pp. 1–3.

External links

• Robert B. Waltz. 'NT Manuscripts: Papyri, Papyri ${\mathfrak {P}}$⁵¹.'

Images

• Oxyrhynchus 2157
• Image of ${\mathfrak {P}}$⁵¹ recto
• Image of ${\mathfrak {P}}$⁵¹ verso