Papyrus 42

{{New Testament manuscript infobox

|form =Papyrus

|number=42

|image=

|isize=

|caption=

|name = Papyrus Vindobonensis

|sign =𝔓⁴²

|text =Luke 1:54-55+2:29-32 (Greek)
Luke 1:46-51 (Coptic)

|script=Greek/Coptic

|date = 6th/7th century

|found=

|now at=Vienna, Österr. Nationalbibliothek, Pap. K. 8706

|cite =

|size = 14x8 (27x18) cm

|type= Alexandrian text-type

|cat = II

|hand=

|note=

}}

Papyrus 42 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by 𝔓⁴², is a small fragment of six verses from the Gospel of Luke dating to the 6th/7th century.[http://nttranscripts.uni-muenster.de/AnaServer?NTtranscripts+0+start.anv New Testament Transcripts Prototype]

The Greek text of this manuscript is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type with some Byzantine readings. Aland placed it in Category II.{{Cite book

|last1=Aland

|first1=Kurt

|author-link=Kurt Aland

| last2 = Aland

| first2 = Barbara

| author-link2 = Barbara Aland

| others = Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.)

|title=The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism

|publisher=William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

|year=1995

|location=Grand Rapids

|page=98

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2pYDsAhUOxAC

|isbn=978-0-8028-4098-1}}

The manuscript is housed at the Austrian National Library P. Vindob. K. 8706 at Vienna.{{Cite web|url=http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php?ObjID=10042|title= Liste Handschriften|publisher=Institute for New Testament Textual Research|access-date=26 August 2011|location=Münster}}