Papyrus 15

New Testament manuscripts
papyri • uncials • minuscules • lectionaries

Papyrus $\mathfrak{P}$15
Name	P. Oxy. 1008
Text	1 Corinthians 7-8 †
Date	3rd century
Script	Greek
Found	Egypt
Now at	Egyptian Museum
Cite	B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, The Amherst Papyri VII, (London 1910), pp. 4-8
Size	26.5 x 14 cm
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	I

Papyrus 15 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), signed by $\mathfrak{P}$¹⁵, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It was originally a papyrus manuscript of the Pauline Corpus of letters, but now only contains 1 Corinthians 7:18-8:4. The manuscript has been palaeographically assigned to the 3rd century.

Description

The manuscript is written in a documentary hand. There is about 37-38 lines per page. Grenfeld and Hunt conjectured that $\mathfrak{P}$¹⁵ and $\mathfrak{P}$¹⁶ might have been part of the same manuscript. Both manuscripts have the same formation of letters, line space, and punctuation.

The Greek text of this codex is probably a representative of the Alexandrian text-type, however the text is too brief to determine this exactly. Aland placed it in Category I.

It was the last papyrus classified by Gregory (in 1915).

Currently housed at the Egyptian Museum (JE 47423) in Cairo.

See also

• List of New Testament papyri

Further reading

• B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, The Amherst Papyri VII, (London 1910), pp. 4-8.

External links

• P. Oxy. 1008 – image