Papyrus 7

Papyrus $\mathfrak{P}$⁷

New Testament manuscript papyri uncials minuscules lectionaries
Text	Luke 4 †
Date	4th–6th century
Script	Greek
Found	Egypt
Now at	Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine
Cite	K. Aland, Neue neutestamentliche Papyri, NTS 3 (1957), 261-265
Type	Alexandrian text-type (?)
Category	?

Papyrus 7 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), or ε 11 (von Soden), designated by $\mathfrak{P}$⁷, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of Luke 4:1-2. Possibly it is a patristic fragment (like e.g. P. Oxy. 405, fragment of Against Heresies by Irenaeus containing Gospel of Matthew 3:16-17). The manuscript had been difficult to date palaeographically, because of its fragmentary condition. It had been assigned to the 4th–6th century (or even the 3rd century).

The Greek text of this codex is too brief to classify (possibly it is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type). Aland did not place it in any of Categories of New Testament manuscripts.

C. R. Gregory examined the manuscript in 1903 in Kiev.

It is currently housed at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine (Petrov 553) in Kiev.

See also

• List of New Testament papyri

Further reading

• Kurt Aland, Neue neutestamentliche Papyri, NTS 3 (1957), pp. 261-265.