Magdalen papyrus
The "Magdalen" papyrus (, MAWD-lin) was purchased in Luxor, Egypt in 1901 by Reverend Charles Bousfield Huleatt (1863โ1908), who identified the Greek fragments as portions of the Gospel of Matthew (Chapter 26:23 and 31) and presented them to Magdalen College, Oxford, where they are catalogued as P. Magdalen Greek 17 (Gregory-Aland ๐64) from which they acquired their name. When the fragments were published by Colin Henderson Roberts in 1953, illustrated with a photograph, the hand was characterized as "an early predecessor of the so-called 'Biblical Uncial'" which began to emerge towards the end of the 2nd century.