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Text
  
Philemon 13-15, 24-25

Script
  
Greek

Date
  
ca. 250

Papyrus 87

Sign
  
P {\displaystyle {\mathfrak {P}}}

Now at
  
Institut für Altertumskunde, University of Cologne

Cite
  
C. Römer, Kölner Papyri 4, Papyrologica Colonensia 7 (Cologne: 1984), pp. 28-31

Papyrus 87 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by 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.

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