Papyrus 87

Papyrus 87

New Testament manuscript papyri uncials minuscules lectionaries
Papyrus 87, recto
Sign	$\mathfrak{P}$87
Text	Philemon 13-15, 24-25
Date	ca. 250
Script	Greek
Now at	Institut für Altertumskunde, University of Cologne
Cite	C. Römer, Kölner Papyri 4, Papyrologica Colonensia 7 (Cologne: 1984), pp. 28-31
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	I

Papyrus 87 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by $\mathfrak{P}$⁸⁷, is an early New Testament papyrus. It is the earliest known manuscript of the Epistle to Philemon. The surviving texts of Philemon are verses 13-15, 24-25.

The manuscript paleographically has been assigned to the early 3rd century (or late 2nd century).

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type (or proto-Alexandrian). Aland ascribed it as "Normal text", and placed it in Category I.

It is currently housed at the University of Cologne (P. Col. theol. 12) in Cologne.

See also

• List of New Testament papyri

Further reading

• C. Römer, Kölner Papyri 4, Papyrologica Colonensia 7 (Cologne: 1984), pp. 28–31.
• K. Wachtel, K. Witte, Das Neue Testament auf Papyrus II, Die Paulinischen Briefe, Teil II, Berlin 1994, S. LXIII-IV, P. 87.

External links

• at the Kölner Papyrus-sammlung