Papyrus 51

New Testament manuscripts
papyri • uncials • minuscules • lectionaries

Papyrus $\mathfrak{P}$51
Name	P. Oxy. 2157
Text	Galatians 1 †
Date	ca. 400
Script	Greek
Found	Egypt
Now at	Ashmolean Museum
Cite	E. Lobel, C. H. Roberts, E. P. Wegener, Oxyrhynchus Papyri XVIII (London: 1941), pp. 1-3.
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	II

Papyrus 51 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by siglum $\mathfrak{P}$⁵¹, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Epistle to the Galatians, it contains only Gal. 1:2-10.13.16-20. The manuscript paleographically has been assigned to the 4th or 5th century.

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type (proto-Alexandrian). Kurt Aland placed it in Category II.

It is currently housed at the Ashmolean Museum (P. Oxy 2157) in Oxford.

See also

• List of New Testament papyri

Further reading

• Edgar Lobel, Colin H. Roberts, and E. P. Wegener, Oxyrhynchus Papyri XVIII (London: 1941), pp. 1-3.

External links

• Robert B. Waltz. 'NT Manuscripts: Papyri, Papyri $\mathfrak{P}$⁵¹.'

Images

• Oxyrhynchus 2157
• Image of $\mathfrak{P}$⁵¹ recto
• Image of $\mathfrak{P}$⁵¹ verso