Papyrus 6

Papyrus 6 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designated by ⁶ or by ε 021 (in von Soden's numbering), is a fragmentary early copy of the New Testament in Greek and Coptic (Akhmimic). It is a papyrus manuscript of the Gospel of John that has been dated paleographically to the 4th century. The manuscript also contains text of the First Epistle of Clement, which is a canonical book of the New Testament for the Coptic Church. The major part of the codex is lost.

The Greek text of the codex has several unusual textual variants.

Description

The codex contains text of the First Epistle of Clement in Coptic (Akhmimic dialect) on the first 26 pages of the manuscript, Coptic Epistle of James on the pages 91-99, and Greek and Coptic Gospel of John on the page 100. Pages 27-90 have not survived. About 25 pages contained the rest of the text of the First Epistle of Clement and one page of text of James 1:1-12, but there were about 28 pages with unknown content. According to Friedrich Rösch there is not space for the Second Epistle of Clement.