New Testament manuscript | |
Name | P. Oxy. 209 |
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Text | Romans 1 † |
Date | 4th century |
Script | Greek |
Found | Oxyrynchus, Egypt |
Now at | Houghton Library |
Cite | Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, Oxyrhynchus Papyri II (1899), pp. 8-9 |
Size | 25.1 x 19.9 |
Type | Alexandrian text-type |
Category | I |
Papyrus 10 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), signed by 𝔓10 and named Oxyrhynchus papyri 209, is an early copy of part of the New Testament content in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Epistle to the Romans, dating paleographically to the early 4th century. [1]
The manuscript is a fragment of one leaf, written in one column per page. The surviving text is of Romans, verses 1:1-7. The manuscript was written very carelessly. The handwriting is crude and irregular, and the copy contains some irregular spellings. A part of verse 6 is omitted (εν οις εστε και υμεις κλητοι who are called to belong to). [2]
The nomina sacra are written in an abbreviated way.
The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category I. [1] The manuscript is too brief for certainty. The only variant of any importance is Χριστου Ιησου in Rom 1:7, where the manuscripts all have the reverse order. [3]
The papyrus was found tied up with a contract dated in 316 A.D., and other documents of the same period. [2]
It was discovered in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, and is currently housed at the Houghton Library of the Harvard University ( Semitic Museum Inv. 2218), Cambridge (Massachusetts). [1] [4]