Uncial 0229

Uncial 0229

New Testament manuscript

Text Revelation 18:16-17; 19:4-6
Date 8th-century
Script Greek
Now at Laurentian Library
Size 11 x 23 cm
Type mixed
Category III

Uncial 0229 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament. The manuscript paleographically has been assigned to the 8th century. It is a palimpsest.

Description

The manuscript contains a small part of the Book of Revelation (18:16-17; 19:4-6), on two parchment leaves (11 cm by 23 cm). The text is written in one column per page, 16 lines per page.[1]

It is a palimpsest, the lower text is Coptic.[1] It contains a calendar text with list of Egyptian months.[2]

The Greek text of this codex is mixed. Kurt Aland placed it in Category III.[1]

Guglielmo Cavallo dated the manuscript to the 7th or 8th century.[2] It is dated by the Institute for New Testament Textual Research to the 8th century.[1][3]

The manuscript was found in Antinoopolis (El-Sheikh Ibada) in Egypt. It was examined by Giovanni Mercati (1953) and Mario Naldini (1965). Mercati transcribed the text of the codex.[2]

The manuscript was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by Kurt Aland in 1953.[4]

The codex used to be housed at the Laurentian Library (PSI 1296b), in Florence.[1][3] According to the Liste, 0229 has been destroyed.[3]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. pp. 125–126. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
  2. 1 2 3 PSI 13 1296 at the Leuven Database of Ancient Books
  3. 1 2 3 "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
  4. ↑ Kurt Aland (1963). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechieschen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. p. 10.

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