Papyrus 24

Papyrus **𝔓²⁴**
New Testament manuscript
Name	P. Oxy. 1230
Text	Revelation 5-6 †
Date	4th century
Script	Greek
Found	Egypt
Now at	Franklin Trask Library Andover Newton Theological School
Cite	B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, Oxyrynchus Papyri X, (London 1914), pp. 18-19
Size	[19 by 28 cm]
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	I

Papyrus 24 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by siglum 𝔓²⁴, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Book of Revelation, it contains only Revelation 5:5-8; 6:5-8. The manuscript paleographically has been assigned to the early 4th century.^[1]

Description

Originally it was written on a large leaf (approximately 19 by 28 cm). It is the earliest manuscript which has survived to the present day with the text of Rev. 5–6.^[2] It uses letter Ζ for επτα (seven).

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type (rather proto-Alexandrian). Aland placed it in Category I.^[1] This manuscript exhibits textual agreement with Papyrus 18, Papyrus 47, and Codex Sinaiticus, but the surviving fragment is too small to determine its overall textual affinities.^[2]

Formerly housed at the Franklin Trask Library of Andover Newton Theological School (OP 1230) in Newton, Massachusetts, this and other MSS from Andover Newton are now held at the library of Yale Divinity School.^[1]^[3]

recto - Revelation 5:5-8
verso - Revelation 6:5-8