Papyrus 86

Papyrus 86 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by siglum P ⁸⁶, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of Matthew. The manuscript palaeographically has been assigned to the 4th century.

The surviving texts of Matthew are verses 5:13-16, 22-25.

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category II, it means, it has some alien readings.

It is currently housed at the Institut für Altertumskunde in University of Cologne (P. Col. theol. 5516) in Cologne.