Papyrus 16

New Testament manuscripts
Papyri • Uncials • Minuscules • Lectionaries

Papyrus 16 ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$
Surname	P. Oxy. VII 1009
text	Philippians 3-4 †
language	Greek
date	3rd / 4th century
Found	Egypt
Storage location	Egyptian Museum (Cairo)
source	BP Grenfell & AS Hunt , Oxyrhynchus Papyri VII, (London 1910), pp. 8-11
Type	Alexandrian text type
category	I.

Papyrus 16 (after Gregory-Aland with Sigel ¹⁶ refers) is an early Greek copy of the New Testament . This papyrus manuscript from Philippians only contains verses 3: 10-17; 4.2-8. It has been dated to the late 3rd century using paleography . ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$

Grenfell and Hunt suggested that ¹⁵ and ^{16 are} parts of the same manuscript. Both manuscripts have the same shape of the letters, line spacing and punctuation. ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$ ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$

The Greek text of this codex represents the Alexandrian text type (or rather proto-Alexandrian). Aland placed it in Category I a. The manuscript is very consistent with the Codex Sinaiticus and the Codex Vaticanus .

The manuscript is currently kept in the Egyptian Museum under the signature JE 47424 in Cairo .

See also

• List of New Testament papyri

literature

• Kurt Aland : Concise List of the Greek Manuscripts of the New Testament - in connection with Michael Welte, edited. by Kurt Aland. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1994, 2nd revised and supplemented edition, ISBN 3-11-011986-2 , (Work on New Testament Text Research Vol. 1).
• BP Grenfell & AS Hunt , Oxyrhynchus Papyri VII, (London 1910), pp. 8-11.

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Kurt and Barbara Aland : The text of the New Testament. Introduction to the scientific editions as well as the theory and practice of modern textual criticism . German Bible Society , Stuttgart 1989, p. 107. ISBN 3-438-06011-6
2. ↑ Philip W. Comfort and David P. Barrett. The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts . Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers Incorporated, 2001, p. 62.