Papyrus 10

Papyrus $\mathfrak{P}$¹⁰

New Testament manuscript papyri uncials minuscules lectionaries
Romans 1:1-7
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

Papyrus 10 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), signed by $\mathfrak{P}$¹⁰, and named Oxyrhynchus papyri 209, is an early copy of part of the New Testament content in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Epistle to the Romans, dating paleographically to the early 4th century.^[1]

Description

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 verse 6 is omitted (εν οις εστε και υμεις κλητοι who are called to belong to).^[2]

The nomina sacra are written in an abbreviated way.

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category I.^[1] The manuscript is too brief for certainty. The only variant of any importance is Χριστου Ιησου in Rom 1:7, where the manuscripts all have the reverse order.^[3]

History

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 in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, and is currently housed at the Houghton Library of the Harvard University (Semitic Museum Inv. 2218), Cambridge (Massachusetts).^[1][4]

See also

• List of New Testament papyri
• Oxyrhynchus papyri
• Papyrus 9
• Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 208
• Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 210

References

1. 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. 96. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
2. B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, Oxyrhynchus Papyri II (1899), p. 8.
3. B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, Oxyrhynchus Papyri II (1899), p. 9.
4. "Handschriftenliste". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 23 August 2011.

Further reading

Grenfell and Hunt

Bernard Grenfell		Arthur Hunt

• B. P., Grenfell; Hunt, A. S. (1899). Oxyrhynchus Papyri II. London: Egypt Exploration Fund. pp. 8–9.
• C. R. Gregory, "Textkritik des Neuen Testaments", Leipzig 1909, vol. 3, p. 1091.
• Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung. p. 46.