Uncial 064

Uncial 64

New Testament manuscript papyri uncials minuscules lectionaries
Text	Matthew and Mark
Date	c. 550
Script	Greek
Now at	Kiev, Sinai, Saint Petersburg
Size	28 x 21 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V

Uncial 064 designated by (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 10 (von Soden), is a Greek uncial codex of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Formerly it was labelled by Θ^e.^[1] Palimpsest.

Description

The manuscript contains the gospels of Matt 25:15 — Mark 5:20. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 6th century. The text is written in two columns per page, 25 lines per page. At the time Caspar René Gregory originally allocated numbers to manuscripts, it was not known with certainty that uncials 064, 074 and 090 were from the one manuscript, because they are held in three locations:

codex 064 in Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine (Petrov 17), Kiev

codex 074 in Saint Catherine's Monastery (Harris 10)

codex 090 in National Library of Russia, Saint Petersburg (Gr. 276).^[2]

It is a palimpsest. The upper text contains Syriac liturgica.^[3]

The Greek text of these codecs are a representatives of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.^[3]

Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 6th century.^[4]

Сontents

• codex 064 — 2 leaves — Matt 27:7-30;
• codex 074 – 10 leaves — Mt 25; 26; 28 (fragments) (Sinai Harris 10);
• codex 090 – 4 leaves — Mt 26:59-70; 27:44-56; Mk 1:34-2:12.

See also

• List of New Testament uncials
• Textual criticism
• Biblical manuscript

References

1. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 160.
2. Novum Testamentum Graece, p. 694.
3. 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. 119. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
4. "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 21 April 2011.

Bibliography

• C. R. Gregory, Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes III (J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung: Leipzig 1909), pp. 1363–1368.
• Kurt Treu, Remarks on some Uncial Fragments of the Greek NT, in Studia evangelica III, T & U 88 (Berlin, 1964), pp. 111–112.