Papyrus 1

Papyrus 𝔓¹

New Testament manuscript
An image of Papyrus 1 (recto), showing Matthew 1:1–9, 12
Name	P. Oxy. 2
Text	Matthew 1:1–9,12,14-20
Date	~250 AD
Found	Oxyrhynchus, Egypt
Now at	University of Pennsylvania
Cite	B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, Oxyrhynchus Papyri I, pp. 4–7, 1898.
Size	1 leaf; 12 × 25 cm; 37–38 lines/page
Type	Alexandrian
Category	I
Note	Close to Codex Vaticanus.

Papyrus 1 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering) designated by "𝔓¹", "ε 01 (von Soden)", is an early Greek copy of a papyrus manuscript of one chapter of the Gospel of Matthew dating palaeographically to the early 3rd century. It was discovered in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt. It is currently housed at the University of Pennsylvania Museum (E 2746).^[1]