Uncial 0171
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| Uncial 0171 | |
| Text | Matthew 10:17-23,25-32; Luke 22:44-50,52-56,61,63-64 |
|---|---|
| Date | c. 300 |
| Script | Greek |
| Found | Hermopolis Magna, Egypt |
| Now at | Medici Library |
| Cite | Papiri greci e latini della Società Italiana, (Florence, 1912—), 1:2-4; 2:22-25 |
| Size | 2 vellum leaves; 5.7 x 9.2 cm; 2 columns, 23 lines/page |
| Type | Western |
| Category | IV |
| Hand | reformed documentary |
| Note | witness to Western text in Egypt |
Uncial 0171 is two vellum leaves of a late third century (or beginning fourth) Greek uncial codex containing fragments Matthew and Luke. It is now part of the Medici Library collection in Florence.
Uncial 0171 measures 5.7 cm by 9.2 cm from a page of two columns of 23 lines. The scribe wrote in a reformed documentary hand.[1]
The Alands describe the text as "an early (secondary?) form of the D [Codex Bezae] text" and "paraphrastic". Uncial 0171 is an important witness to the existence of the Western text-type in Egypt.[2]
It is classed as a "consistently cited witness of the first order" in the Novum Testamentum Graece.[3] 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."[4]
The text was first published by the Società Italiana in Florence in 1912. Later, de:Kurt Treu identified the Matthew and Luke portions as the work of the same scribe on the same codex.[5] Later again, Neville Birdsall observed that a lower portion of the manuscript had been overlooked in the editio princeps.[6]
[edit] See also
- Other early uncials
- Related articles
[edit] References
- ^ Philip W Comfort and David P Barrett, The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts, (Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers Incorporated, 2001), 684-691.
- ^ Bruce Manning Metzger, The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration, 4th edition, (New York City: Oxford University Press, 2005).
- ^ de:Eberhard Nestle, de:Erwin Nestle, Barbara Aland and Kurt Aland (eds), Novum Testamentum Graece, 27th edition, (Stuttgart: de:Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2001), 58.
- ^ NA27
- ^ de:Kurt Treu, Archiv für Papyrusforschung 18 (1966): 25-28.
- ^ J Neville Birdsall, 'A fresh examination of the fragments of the gospel of St. Luke in Ms. 0171 and an attempted reconstruction with special reference to the recto', in Roger Gryson (editor), Philologia Sacra: Biblische und patristische Studien für de:Hermann J Frede und de:Walter Thiele zu ihrem siebzigsten Geburtstag, Vetus Latina 24, (Freiburg: Herder, 1993), 212-217.
