Uncial 0189 measures 11.5 cm by 18 cm from a page of 32 lines. The scribe wrote in a reformed documentary hand.
Uncial 0189 has evidence of the following nomina sacra: ΑΝΟΣΠΝΑΚΥΚΩΙΛΗΜΘΩΙΣΗΛ.
The Alands describe the text-type as "at least normal". Uncial 0189 is an important early witness to the Alexandrian text-type, nearly always agreeing with the other witnesses to this type of text.[2] Aland placed it in Category I (because of its date).[3]
Aarne H. Salonius originally dated Uncial 0189 to the 4th Century CE. However this was later redated by C. H. Roberts to the 2nd or 3rd Century CE, which the Alands accepted.[4]
The INTF currently dates Uncial 0189 to the 3rd or 4th century CE.[5]
Uncial 0189 is classed as a "consistently cited witness of the first order" in the Novum Testamentum Graece (NA27).[7] NA27 considers it even more highly than other witnesses of this type. It provides an exclamation mark (!) for "papyri and uncial manuscripts of particular significance because of their age."[8]
^Comfort, Philip W.; David P. Barrett (2001). The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts. Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers. p. 693. ISBN978-0-8423-5265-9.
^Philip W. Comfort and David P. Barrett, The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts, (Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers Incorporated, 2001), pp. 692-695.
^P. Comfort, D. Barrett: The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts, pp. 693
^"Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 19 November 2024.
^Michael W. Holmes, From Nestle to the `Editio Critica Maior`, in: The Bible as Book: The Transmission of the Greek Text, London 2003, p. 128. ISBN0-7123-4727-5