| New Testament manuscript | |
 | |
| 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 𝔓51, 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.[1]
The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type (proto-Alexandrian). Kurt Aland placed it in Category II.[1]
It is currently housed at the Ashmolean Museum (P. Oxy 2157) in Oxford.[1][2]
- ^ a b c Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 99. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
- ^ "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 26 August 2011.