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Papyrus 85

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Date
  
4th / 5th century

Found
  
Egypt

Script
  
Greek

Text
  
Book of Revelation 9-10 †

Now at
  
Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire

Cite
  
J. Schwartz, Papyrus et tradition manuscrite, ZPE 4 (Bonn: 1969), pp. 178-182.

Papyrus 85 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by P 85, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Book of Revelation. The manuscript paleographically has been assigned to the 4th century (or the 5th century).

The surviving texts of Revelation are verses 9:19-10:2,5-9.

Text

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category II.

Location

It is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire (P. Gr. 1028) in Strasbourg.

References

Papyrus 85 Wikipedia
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