title: Papyrus 71
text: # Papyrus 71
  
  Papyrus 71 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by $𝔓^{71},$ is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of Matthew. The surviving texts of Matthew are verses 19:10-11.17-18. The manuscript paleographically had been assigned to the 4th century.
  
  ## Text
  
  The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category II.
  
  ## Present location
  
  It is currently housed at the Ashmolean Museum (P. Oxy. 2385) in Oxford.
  
  