Egerton Gospel

The Egerton Gospel (British Library Egerton Papyrus 2) refers to a group of papyrus fragments of a codex of a previously unknown gospel, found in Egypt and sold to the British Museum in 1934; the physical fragments are now dated to the very end of the 2nd century AD. It is one of the oldest known fragments of any gospel, or any codex. The British Museum lost no time in publishing it: acquired in the summer of 1934, it was in print in 1935. It is also called the Unknown Gospel, as no ancient source makes reference to it, in addition to being entirely unknown before its publication. This manuscript forms part of the Egerton Collection in the British Library.