Papyrus 61

New Testament manuscripts
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Papyrus 61 ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$
text	Paul's letters †
language	Greek
date	7th century
Found	Nessana - Auja Hafir Palestine
Storage location	The Morgan Library & Museum
source	L. Casson, and EL Hettich, Excavations at Nessana II, Literary Papyri, Princeton 1946, pp. 112-122.
size	25 cm × 17 cm
Type	Alexandrian text type
category	II

Papyrus 61 (named after Gregory-Aland with Sigel ⁶¹ ) is an early Greek copy of the New Testament . This papyrus manuscript contains a part of Paul's letters . It was dated to the 7th century by means of paleography . ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}$

The following verses have been preserved in the fragments:

• Romans 16 : 23-27
• 1 Corinthians 1: 1-2.4-6; 5.1-3.5-6.9-13
• Philippians 3: 5-9.12-16
• 1 Thessalonians 1,2-3
• Titus 3,1-5.8-11.14-15
• Philemon 4-7

The Greek text of the Codex represents the Alexandrian text type . Kurt Aland placed him in Category II .

The manuscript is currently housed in The Morgan Library & Museum under the call number P. Colt 5 in New York City .

Individual evidence

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 Biblical Society , Stuttgart 1989, p. 110. ISBN 3-438-06011-6

literature

• L. Casson, and EL Hettich, Excavations at Nessana II, Literary Papyri (Princeton: 1946), pp. 112-122.