Sinope Gospels

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New Testament manuscripts
papyri • uncials • minuscules
Uncial 023
A page from the Sinope Gospels. The miniature at the bottom shows Christ healing the blind
Name	Sinope Gospels
Sign	O
Text	Gospels
Date	c. 550
Script	Greek
Now at	Paris
Size	30 x 25 cm
Type	Byzantine
Category	V

The Sinope Gospels (Gregory-Aland no. O or 023), also known as the Codex Sinopensis, is a fragment of a 6th century illuminated Greek Gospel Book. It was discovered in Sinope in 1899. Along with the Rossano Gospels, the Sinope Gospels has been dated, on the basis of the style of the miniatures, to the mid-6th century. The Rossano Gospels, however are considered to be earlier. Like Rossano and the Vienna Genesis, the Sinope Gospels are written purple dyed vellum.

There are only 44 extant folios in the Sinope Gospels. These folios carry unframed miniatures at the bottom of the page which are similar in style to the miniatures in the Rossano Gospels. The folios measure approximately 30 cm by 25 cm. Written in one column per page, 15 lines per column.

The codex is located now in Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS gr. 1286.

According to Streeter it is a tertiary witness of Caesarean text-type. Aland placed it in III Category.