Uncial 088 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 1021 (Soden),^[1] is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated paleographically to the 5th or 6th century.^[2]

To the present day survived only two parchment leaves of this codex (23.5 cm by 20 cm).^[2] The leaves are arranged in quarto in quire. They contain a small parts of the 1 Corinthians 15:53-16:9, and the Titus 1:1-13. The text is written in two columns per page, 24 lines per page, in very large uncial letters.^[3]

It is a palimpsest, the upper text is in Georgian from 10th century.^[2][3]

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]

In 1 Corinthians 15:52 it reads εγερθησονται (as p46, Sinaiticus, B C Ψ 075 0121a 0243 Byz); other manuscripts read αναστησονται (as A D F G P);^[4]

In 1 Corinthians 15:53 it has singular reading την αθανασιαν for αθανασιαν;

In 1 Corinthians 15:54 it lacks το φθαρτον τουτο ενδυσηται αφθαρσιαν και along with 0121a, 0243, 1175, 1739;^[4]

In 1 Corinthians 16:2 it has reading σαββατου (A, B, C, D, F, G, P, Ψ, 33) against σαββατων (075, 0121a, 0243, and Byzantine manuscripts);^[4]

Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 5th or 6th century.^[2][5]

The text of the manuscript was edited by Constantin von Tischendorf.^[6] It was examined and described by Kurt Treu.

The codex currently is located at the Russian National Library (Gr. 6, II, fol. 5-6) at Saint Petersburg.^[2]

• List of New Testament uncials
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism

• Constantin von Tischendorf, Monumenta sacra inedita I, pp. XII-XIX, 45-48.
• Kurt Treu, Die Griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments in der USSR; eine systematische Auswertung des Texthandschriften in Leningrad, Moskau, Kiev, Odessa, Tbilisi und Erevan, T & U 91 (Berlin: 1966), pp. 20-21.