New Testament manuscript | |
Name | Papyrus Osloensis 1661 |
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Text | Gospel of Matthew † |
Date | 4th century |
Script | Greek-Coptic |
Found | Egypt |
Now at | University of Oslo |
Cite | L. Amundsen, Christian Papyri from the Oslo Collection, Symbolae Osloenses 24 (1945), pp. 121-147. |
Size | 6.5 cm x 5.6 cm |
Type | Alexandrian text-type |
Category | II |
Papyrus 62, also known as ‘‘Papyrus Osloensis’’, is a copy of the New Testament and Septuagint in Greek and Coptic known as a diglot. It is designated by the siglum 𝔓62 in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of Matthew and Book of Daniel in a fragmentary condition. Using the study of comparative writing styles (palaeography), it has been assigned to the 4th century CE.