Papyrus 85

New Testament manuscripts
papyri • uncials • minuscules • lectionaries
Papyrus \mathfrak{P}85
Text Book of Revelation 9-10 †
Date 4th / 5th century
Script Greek
Found Egypt
Now at Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire
Cite J. Schwartz, Papyrus et tradition manuscrite, ZPE 4 (Bonn: 1969), pp. 178-182.
Type Alexandrian text-type
Category II

Papyrus 85 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by \mathfrak{P}85, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Book of Revelation. The manuscript paleographically has been assigned to the 4th century (or the 5th century).

The surviving texts of Revelation are verses 9:19-10:2,5-9.

Text

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

Location

It is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire (P. Gr. 1028) in Strasbourg.[1][2]

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References

  1. ^ a b Aland, Kurt; Barbara Aland; Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 101. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1. http://books.google.com/books?id=2pYDsAhUOxAC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false. 
  2. ^ "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php?ObjID=10085. Retrieved 27 August 2011. 

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