Uncial 076

Uncial **076**
	New Testament manuscript ; papyri ; uncials ; minuscules ; lectionaries ;
Text	Acts
Date	5th /6th-century
Script	Greek
Now at	Pierpont Morgan Library
Size	17 x 15 cm
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	II

Last updated April 01, 2019

Uncial 076 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α¹⁰⁰⁸ (Soden), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated palaeographically to the 5th or 6th-century. Formerly it was labeled by י^a.^[1]

A manuscript was, traditionally, any document that is written by hand -- or, once practical typewriters became available, typewritten -- as opposed to being mechanically printed or reproduced in some indirect or automated way. More recently, the term has come to be understood to further include any written, typed, or word-processed copy of an author's work, as distinguished from its rendition as a printed version of the same. Before the arrival of printing, all documents and books were manuscripts. Manuscripts are not defined by their contents, which may combine writing with mathematical calculations, maps, explanatory figures or illustrations. Manuscripts may be in book form, scrolls or in codex format. Illuminated manuscripts are enriched with pictures, border decorations, elaborately embossed initial letters or full-page illustrations. A document should be at least 75 years old to be considered a manuscript.

New Testament Second division of the Christian biblical canon

The New Testament is the second part of the Christian biblical canon, the first part being the Old Testament, based on the Hebrew Bible. The New Testament discusses the teachings and person of Jesus, as well as events in first-century Christianity. Christians regard both the Old and New Testaments together as sacred scripture. The New Testament has frequently accompanied the spread of Christianity around the world. It reflects and serves as a source for Christian theology and morality. Extended readings and phrases directly from the New Testament are incorporated into the various Christian liturgies. The New Testament has influenced religious, philosophical, and political movements in Christendom and left an indelible mark on literature, art, and music.

Palaeography (UK) or paleography is the study of ancient and historical handwriting. Included in the discipline is the practice of deciphering, reading, and dating historical manuscripts, and the cultural context of writing, including the methods with which writing and books were produced, and the history of scriptoria.

Description

Survived only one parchment leaf (17 cm by 15 cm). The codex is written in two columns per page, 23 lines per page, 9-10 letters per line.^[2] It contains a part of the Acts of the Apostles (2:11-22) with some missing words or letters.^[1] It used breathings and accents. The nomina sacra are abbreviated. The Old Testament quotations are marked by inverted comma (>).

Acts of the Apostles Book of the New Testament

Acts of the Apostles, often referred to simply as Acts, or formally the Book of Acts, is the fifth book of the New Testament; it tells of the founding of the Christian church and the spread of its message to the Roman Empire.

In Christian scribal practice, nomina sacra is the abbreviation of several frequently occurring divine names or titles, especially in Greek manuscripts of Holy Scripture. A nomen sacrum consists of two or more letters from the original word spanned by an overline.

Text

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type with some alien readings. Aland placed it in Category II.^[2] The most interesting readings occurs in 2:13 where fragment supports Codex Bezae against all other manuscripts.^[3]

A codex, plural codices, is a book constructed of a number of sheets of paper, vellum, papyrus, or similar materials. The term is now usually only used of manuscript books, with hand-written contents, but describes the format that is now near-universal for printed books in the Western world. The book is usually bound by stacking the pages and fixing one edge to a bookbinding, which may just be thicker paper, or with stiff boards, called a hardback, or in elaborate historical examples a treasure binding.

The Alexandrian text-type, associated with Alexandria, is one of several text-types used in New Testament textual criticism to describe and group the textual characters of biblical manuscripts.

Kurt Aland, was a German theologian and biblical scholar who specialized in New Testament textual criticism. He founded the Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung in Münster and served as its first director from 1959–83. He was one of the principal editors of Nestle-Aland – Novum Testamentum Graece for the Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft and The Greek New Testament for the United Bible Societies.

θυ εξισταν

το δε παντες
και διηπορου
το αλλος προς
τον αλλον λε
γοντες τι θε
[λει] τουτο ει
[ναι ε]τεροι
δ[ε εχ]λευαζο
λε[γο]ντες ο
τι [γλευκους
με[μεστω]με
νοι ε[ι]σιν [
[σ]ταθεις δε ο
πετρος συν
τοις ενδεκα
επηρεν τη
γωνην [α]υτου
και απεφθεγ
ξατο α[υ]τοις [
ανδρε[ς] ιου
δαιο[ι κ]αι οι
κατοικουν

τες [ι]λημ παν
τες του[το
γνωστ[ον υμι
εστω [και ενω
τις[ασθε τα
ρη[ματα μου
ο[υ γαρ ως υ
μ[εις υπολα]μ
βαν[ετε ου]τ[οι
μεθυ[ουσι]ν
εστι[ν γαρ] ωρα
τριτ[η τη]ς η
μερα[ς αλλα
τουτ[ο ε]στι
το [ειρημε]υο
δια του [π]ρο
φητου [ι]ωηλ
και εστα[ι] με
τα ταυτα λεγει
ο θς εκχεω
απο του πνς
μου επι
πασα[ν σαρκα

History

Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 5th or 6th century.^[4]

The manuscript once belonged to Lord Amherst in Norfolk. In 1908/1909 Lord Amherst sold his library.^[1]

William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney was a British Conservative Member of Parliament and collector of books and works of art.

Norfolk is a county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the northwest, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea and, to the north-west, The Wash. The county town is Norwich. With an area of 2,074 square miles (5,370 km²) and a population of 859,400, Norfolk is a largely rural county with a population density of 401 per square mile. Of the county's population, 40% live in four major built up areas: Norwich (213,000), Great Yarmouth (63,000), King's Lynn (46,000) and Thetford (25,000).

The codex is located now in the Pierpont Morgan Library (Pap. G. 8) at New York City.^[2]

The City of New York, usually called either New York City (NYC) or simply New York (NY), is the most populous city in the United States and in the U.S. state of New York. With an estimated 2017 population of 8,622,698 distributed over a land area of about 302.6 square miles (784 km²), New York is also the most densely populated major city in the United States. Located at the southern tip of the state of New York, the city is the center of the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass and one of the world's most populous megacities, with an estimated 20,320,876 people in its 2017 Metropolitan Statistical Area and 23,876,155 residents in its Combined Statistical Area. A global power city, New York City has been described as the cultural, financial, and media capital of the world, and exerts a significant impact upon commerce, entertainment, research, technology, education, politics, tourism, art, fashion, and sports. The city's fast pace has inspired the term New York minute. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy.

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References

1 2 3 C. R. Gregory (1909). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 3. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 1061.
1 2 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. 120. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
↑ B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt, The Amherst Papyri, being an account of the Greek Papyri in the collection of Lord Amherst of Hackney at Didlington Hall, Norfolk I (London 1900), p. 42.
↑ "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 21 April 2011.

Uncial 076

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Description

Text

History

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Related Research Articles

References

Further reading

New Testament manuscript papyri uncials minuscules lectionaries

Text	Acts
Date	5th /6th-century
Script	Greek
Now at	Pierpont Morgan Library
Size	17 x 15 cm
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	II