Uncial 0229

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Uncial 0229
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 contains a small part of the Book of Revelation (18:16-17; 19:4-6), on 2 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]

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

Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 8th century.[1][2]

The manuscript was examined by Giovanni Mercati (1953) and Mario Naldini (1965). Mercati transcribed the text of the codex.[3]

The codex formerly was housed at the Laurentian Library (PSI 1296b), in Florence.[1]

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References [edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e Aland, Kurt; Barbara Aland; Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. pp. 125–126. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1. 
  2. ^ "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 23 April 2011. 
  3. ^ PSI 13 1296 at the LDAB

Further reading [edit]

  • G. Mercati, Pubblicazioni della Società Italiana XIII (1953), pp. 1, 8-11.