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{{New Testament manuscript infobox
| form = Papyrus
| number = '''<math>\mathfrak{P}</math>44'''
| image =
| isize =
| caption=
| name =
| sign =
| text = [[Gospel of Matthew|Matthew]] 17-18,25; [[Gospel of John|John]] 9; 10 †
| script = [[Greek language|Greek]]
| date = 6th/7th century
| found = [[Egypt]]
| now at = [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]
| cite = W. E. Crum, H. G. Evelyn-White, ''The Monastery of Epiphanius at Thebes, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Egyptian Expedition Publications'' IV, (New York, 1926), pp. 120-121.
| size =
| type = [[Alexandrian text-type]]
| cat = II
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'''Papyrus 44''' (in [[Biblical manuscript#Gregory-Aland|Gregory-Aland]] numbering), signed by '''<math>\mathfrak{P}</math>44''', is an early copy of the [[New Testament]] in [[Greek language|Greek]]. It is a [[papyrus]] [[manuscript]] of the [[Gospel of Matthew|Matthew]]; [[Gospel of John|John]], it contains Matt. 17:1-3.6-7; 18:15-17.19; 25:8-10; John 9:3-4; 10:8-14; 12:16-18. The manuscript [[Palaeography|paleographically]] has been assigned to the 6th or 7th century.<ref name = Aland/>

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the [[Alexandrian text-type]]. [[Kurt Aland|Aland]] placed it in [[Categories of New Testament manuscripts#Category II|Category II]].<ref name = Aland>{{Cite book
|last=Aland
|first=Kurt
|authorlink=Kurt Aland
|coauthors=[[Barbara Aland]]; Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.)
|title=The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism
|publisher=[[William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company]]
|year=1995
|location=Grand Rapids
|page=98
|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=2pYDsAhUOxAC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
|isbn=978-0-8028-4098-1}}</ref>

It is currently housed at the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] (Inv. 14. 1. 527) in [[New York]].<ref name = Aland/><ref name = INTF>{{Cite web|url=http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php?ObjID=10044|title= Liste Handschriften|publisher=Institute for New Testament Textual Research|accessdate=26 August 2011|location=Münster}} </ref>

== See also ==

* [[List of New Testament papyri]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== Further reading ==

* W. E. Crum, H. G. Evelyn-White, ''The Monastery of Epiphanius at Thebes, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Egyptian Expedition Publications'' IV, (New York, 1926), pp. 120-121. (transcription and collation).
* Ellwood M. Schofield, ''The Papyrus Fragments of the Greek New Testament'', Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, 1936, pp. 296-301.

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