Papyrus 27

Papyrus $\mathfrak{P}$²⁷

New Testament manuscript papyri uncials minuscules lectionaries
Name	P. Oxy. 1355
Text	Romans 8-9 †
Date	3rd century
Script	Greek
Found	Egypt
Now at	Cambridge University Library
Cite	B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, Oxyrynchus Papyri XI, (London 1915), pp. 9-12
Size	13 x 25
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	I

The largest of two fragments making up 𝔓²⁷, recto (front side)

Papyrus 27 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by 𝔓²⁷, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Epistle to the Romans, it contains only Romans 8:12-22.24-27; 8:33-9:3.5-9. The manuscript paleographically has been assigned to the early 3rd century. It is written in 43 lines per page. The scribe of this manuscript may have also written 𝔓²⁰.

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category I. This manuscript shows agreement with Codex Sinaiticus, Vaticanus and other witnesses of the Alexandrian text-type.

It is currently housed at the Cambridge University Library (Add. 7211) in Cambridge.

See also

• List of New Testament papyri

Further reading

• B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri XI (London 1915), pp. 9-12.

Grenfell and Hunt

Bernard Grenfell		Arthur Hunt