| New Testament manuscript | |
| Text | Luke 4 † |
|---|---|
| Date | 4th–6th century AD |
| Script | Greek |
| Found | Egypt |
| Now at | Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine |
| Cite | K. Aland,Neue neutestamentliche Papyri, NTS 3 (1957), 261-265 |
| Type | Alexandrian text-type (?) |
| Category | ? |
Papyrus 7 (in theGregory-Aland numbering), or ε 11 (von Soden), designated by𝔓7,[1] is an early copy of the New Testament inGreek. It is apapyrusmanuscript of theGospel of Luke 4:1-2. Possibly it is a patristic fragment (like e.g.P. Oxy. 405, fragment ofAgainst Heresies byIrenaeus containingGospel of Matthew 3:16-17). The manuscript had been difficult to datepalaeographically, because of its fragmentary condition. It had been assigned to the 4th–6th century (or even the 3rd century).
The Greek text of this codex is too brief to classify (possibly it is a representative of theAlexandrian text-type).Aland did not place it in any ofCategories of New Testament manuscripts.[2]
C. R. Gregory examined the manuscript in 1903 in Kiev.[3]
It is currently housed at theVernadsky National Library of Ukraine (Petrov 553) inKyiv.[2][4]
