Uncial 085
| New Testament manuscript | |
| Text | Gospel of Matthew 20:3-32; 22:3-16 |
|---|---|
| Date | 6th century |
| Script | Greek |
| Now at | Russian National Library |
| Size | 24 x 21 cm |
| Type | Alexandrian text-type |
| Category | II |
Uncial 085 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 23 (Soden), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated palaeographically to the 6th century.[1]
Description
[edit]The codex contains two small parts of the Gospel of Matthew 20:3-32; 22:3-16 on 3 parchment leaves (24 cm by 21 cm). Written in two columns per page, 27 lines per page (size of text 17 by 13.5 cm).[1][2]
The letters are similar to Coptic. The pages are numbered in the same way as Coptic manuscripts.[2]
Text
[edit]The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type with some alien readings. According to some authorities the text has mixed character. Kurt Aland placed it in Category II.[1]
Matthew 20:23
- phrase και το βαπτισμα ο εγω βαπτιζομαι βαπτισθησεσθε (and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with) omitted, as in codices Sinaiticus, B, D, L, Z, Θ, f1, f13, it, syrs, c, copsa.[3]
History
[edit]It is dated by the Institute for New Testament Textual Research to the 6th century.[1][4] The manuscript was written in a Coptic monastery.[2]
The codex used to be in Cairo. It is now located at the Russian National Library (Gr. 714) in Saint Petersburg.[1]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ 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. 120. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
- ^ a b c C. R. Gregory, "Textkritik des Neuen Testaments", Leipzig 1900, vol. 1, p. 68.
- ^ NA26, p. 56.
- ^ "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 21 April 2011.
Further reading
[edit]- 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. 192–193.
External links
[edit]- Uncial 085 at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism
- Uncial 085 at the Wieland Willker, "Textual Commentary"