Uncial 0241

Uncial 0241

New Testament manuscript

Text 1 Timothy 3:16-4:3,8-11
Date 6th century
Script Greek
Now at Bodmer Library
Size ?
Type Alexandrian/mixed
Category III

Uncial 0241 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 6th century.

Description

The codex contains a small part of the First Epistle to Timothy 3:16-4:3,8-11, on a fragment of one parchment leaf. Original size of the pages is unknown. Probably it was written in one column per page, 12 lines per page, in uncial letters (originally 28 lines per page).[1][2]

The manuscript was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by Kurt Aland in 1956.[3]

Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 6th century.[1][2]

Location

Currently the codex is housed at the Bodmer Library (Cod. Bodmer 24) in Cologny.[1]

Text

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type with some alien readings. Aland placed it in Category III.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 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. p. 125. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
  2. 1 2 "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 25 April 2011.
  3. Kurt Aland (1963). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechieschen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. p. 11.

Further reading

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