| New Testament manuscript | |
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| Name | P. Oxy. 209 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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Papyrus 10 (in theGregory-Aland numbering), signed by 𝔓10 and namedOxyrhynchus papyri 209, is an early copy of part of the New Testament content inGreek. It is apapyrusmanuscript of theEpistle to the Romans, datingpaleographically 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 verse6 is omitted (εν οις εστε και υμεις κλητοιwho are called to belong to).[2]
Thenomina sacra are written in an abbreviated way.
The Greek text of this codex is a representative of theAlexandrian text-type.Aland placed it inCategory I.[1] The manuscript is too brief for certainty. The only variant of any importance is Χριστου Ιησου inRom 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 inOxyrhynchus,Egypt, and is currently housed at theHoughton Library of theHarvard University (Semitic Museum Inv. 2218),Cambridge (Massachusetts).[1][4]
