Papyrus 86

Papyrus ${\mathfrak {P}}$ ⁸⁶
New Testament manuscript papyri uncials minuscules lectionaries

Name	Pap. Col. 5516
Text	Gospel of Matthew 5 †
Date	4th century
Script	Greek
Found	Egypt
Now at	University of Cologne
Cite	Charalambakis-Hagedorn-Kaimakis-Thüngen, Vier literarische Papyri der Kölner Sammlung, ZPE 14 (Barcelona: 1974), pp. 37-40.
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	II

Papyrus 86 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by siglum ${\mathfrak {P}}$ ⁸⁶, is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of Matthew. The manuscript palaeographically has been assigned to the 4th century.

The surviving texts of Matthew are verses 5:13-16, 22-25.

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category II, it means, it has some alien readings.

It is currently housed at the Institut für Altertumskunde in University of Cologne (P. Col. theol. 5516) in Cologne.