Papyrus 61

{{New Testament manuscript infobox

| form = Papyrus

| number = 𝔓61

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| text = Pauline epistles

| script = Greek

| date = c. 600-700

| found = Nessana, Palestina

| now at = The Morgan Library & Museum

| cite = L. Casson, and E.L. Hettich, Excavations at Nessana II, Literary Papyri (Princeton: 1946), pp. 112-122.

| size = 25 cm x 17 cm

| type = Alexandrian text-type

| cat = II

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Papyrus 61 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), signed by 𝔓61, is a copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Pauline epistles. The manuscript paleographically has been assigned to the 7th to 8th century.{{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=100

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

|isbn=978-0-8028-4098-1}}{{Cite web|url=http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php|title=Liste Handschriften|publisher=Institute for New Testament Textual Research|access-date=16 November 2010|location=Münster}}

; Contents

Ro 16:23-27; 1 Cor 1:1-2.4-6; 5:1-3.5-6.9-13; Philip 3:5-9.12-16; Col 1:3-7.1:9-13;4:15; 1 Thes 1:2-3; Titus 3:1-5; 3:8-11; 3:14-15; Philemon 1:4-7.

; Text

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

; Location

It is currently housed at The Morgan Library & Museum (P. Colt 5) in New York City.{{Cite web|url=http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php?ObjID=10061|title= Liste Handschriften|publisher=Institute for New Testament Textual Research|access-date=26 August 2011|location=Münster}}

See also

References

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Further reading

  • L. Casson, and E. L. Hettich, Excavations at Nessana II, Literary Papyri (Princeton: 1946), pp. 112–122.
  • G. Cavallo, Pap. Flor. 36 (2005), p. 197