Uncial 0240

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Uncial 0240
New Testament manuscript
Text Titus 1:4-8
Date5th century
Script Greek
Now at Georgian National Center of Manuscripts
Size26 x 22 cm
Type Alexandrian text-type
Category II

Uncial 0240 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 5th century. [1]

Contents

Description

The codex contains a small part of the Epistle to Titus 1:4-8, on one parchment leaf (26 cm by 22 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 23 lines per page, in uncial letters. [1]

It is a palimpsest. The upper text is written in Georgian, it contains a menologion. [1]

Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 5th century. [1] [2]

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

It was examined by Pasquale Orsini. [4]

Text

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category II. [1]

Location

Currently[ when? ] the codex is housed at the Georgian National Center of Manuscripts (2123, ff. 191, 198) in Tbilisi. [1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 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. 126. ISBN   978-0-8028-4098-1.
  2. ↑ "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 25 April 2011.[ dead link ]
  3. ↑ Kurt Aland (1963). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechieschen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. p. 11.
  4. ↑ P. Orsini, Manoscritti in maiuscola biblica, p. 291-292.

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