Papyrus 86

Papyrus ${\mathfrak {P}}$⁸⁶

New Testament manuscript papyri uncials minuscules lectionaries
Name	Pap. Col. 5516
Text	Gospel of Matthew 5 †
Date	4th century
Script	Greek
Found	Egypt
Now at	University of Cologne
Cite	Charalambakis-Hagedorn-Kaimakis-Thüngen, Vier literarische Papyri der Kölner Sammlung, ZPE 14 (Barcelona: 1974), pp. 37-40.
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	II

Papyrus 86 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by siglum ${\mathfrak {P}}$⁸⁶, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of Matthew. 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,^[1] it means, it has some alien readings.

Location

It is currently housed at the Institut für Altertumskunde in University of Cologne (P. Col. theol. 5516) in Cologne.^[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. 101. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
2. "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 27 August 2011.

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 ${\mathfrak {P}}$⁸⁶ recto
• Leaf from ${\mathfrak {P}}$⁸⁶ verso