Papyrus 51 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by siglum ๐51, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Epistle to the Galatians, it contains only Gal. 1:2-10.13.16-20. The manuscript paleographically has been assigned to the 4th or 5th century.
The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type (proto-Alexandrian). Kurt Aland placed it in Category II.
It is currently housed at the Ashmolean Museum (P. Oxy 2157) in Oxford.
See also
List of New Testament papyri
References
Further reading
Edgar Lobel, Colin H. Roberts, and E. P. Wegener, Oxyrhynchus Papyri XVIII (London: 1941), pp. 1โ3.