Uncial 097

Uncial 097
New Testament manuscript
Page with text of Acts 12:39-43 (Tischendorf's facsimile)
Page with text of Acts 12:39-43 (Tischendorf's facsimile)
TextActs of the Apostles 13:39-46
Date7th-century
ScriptGreek
Now atRussian National Library
Size26 x 21 cm
Typemixed / Byzantine
CategoryIII / V

Uncial 097 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 1003 (Soden),[1] is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated palaeographically to the 7th-century.[2]

Description

The codex contains a small part of the Acts of the Apostles 13:39-46, on one parchment leaf (26 cm by 21 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 18 lines per page, in large uncial letters. It is a palimpsest, the upper text was written in Georgian, in the 10th century.[2]

Text

Page with text of Acts 12:43-46 in Tischendorf's facsimile edition (1855)

The Greek text of this codex is mixed, but predominate the Byzantine element. Aland placed it with some hesitation in Category III (Category V?).[2]

History

Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 7th-century.[2][3]

The manuscript was examined by Constantin von Tischendorf, who published its text in facsimile edition.[4] It was again examined by Kurt Treu.

The codex is located now at the Russian National Library (Gr. 18)[5] in Saint Petersburg.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 40.
  2. ^ a b c d e 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. 121. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
  3. ^ "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 21 April 2011.
  4. ^ Constantin von Tischendorf, Monumenta sacra inedita I (Leipzig: 1855), pp. 39-40.
  5. ^ Uncial 095 has catalogue number Gr. 17, and Uncial 096 has catalogue number Gr. 19 in the same library.

Further reading

  • Constantin von Tischendorf, Monumenta sacra inedita I (Leipzig: 1855), pp. 39-40.
  • Kurt Treu, Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments in der UdSSR; eine systematische Auswertung des Texthandschriften in Leningrad, Moskau, Kiev, Odessa, Tbilisi und Erevan, Texte und Untersuchungen 91 (Berlin, 1966), pp. 36-37.