Uncial 0250 | |
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Name | Codex Climaci Rescriptus |
Text | Gospels and Old Testament |
Date | 6th - 8th century |
Script | Christian Palestinian Aramaic and Greek and Syriac |
Found | Sinai |
Now at | Westminster College |
Cite | A. S. Lewis, "Codex Climaci rescriptus", Horae semiticae 8 (1909), pp. 27-31. |
Size | 23 cm by 18.5-15.5 cm |
Type | mixed |
Category | III |
Note | nine unique textual readings in Greek |
Codex Climaci rescriptus, known as Uncial 0250 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament as well as a Christian Palestinian Aramaic uncial manuscript of the Old and New Testament. Paleographically the Greek section has been assigned to the 8th century (or 7th century), and the Christian Palestinian Aramaic section to the sixth century. Formerly it was classified as lectionary manuscript, Gregory gave for it number ℓ 1561.[1]
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The codex is a 137 leaf remnant of eight separate manuscripts, six of which are in Christian Palestinian Aramaic, which have been dated to the sixth century AD; and two of which are in Greek, which have been dated to the seventh or eighth century AD.
The Christian Palestinian Aramaic sections contain significant parts of the four Gospels, as well as the Acts and Epistles, and the remains of a large volume of the Old Testament in Christian Palestinian Aramaic, on 104 leaves (23 by 18.5 mm), mostly written in two columns per page, 18 lines per page in Estrangelo script.
The Greek section contains the text of the four Gospels, with numerous lacunae, on 33 parchment leaves (23 by 15.5 cm). Written in two columns per page, 31 lines per page, in uncial letters.[2]
It is a palimpsest, the upper text containing two Syriac treatises of Johannes Climacus (hence name of the codex), the Scala paradisi and portions of the Liber ad pastorem.[3]
In Christian Palestinian Aramaic:
Matt. 21:23-41; 27-31; 22:40-23:1; 23:1-25; 24:42-46; 24: 25:14; 26:24-32; 26:40-49; 27:9-19; 27:39-48; 27:64-28:3; 28:4-10
Mark 1:1-10; 1:20-30; 2:2-11; 17-24
the Acts and Epistles
John 1:1-9
Acts 19:31-36; 20:1; 20:2-7; 20:8-14; 21:3-8; 21:9-14; 24:25-25:1; 25:3-26; 26:23-29; 27:1-13; 27:14-27
Romans 4:17-22; 5:4-15; 6:14-19; 7:2-11; 8: 9-21; 9:30;10:3-9; 15:11-21
I Corin. 1:6-23; 4:1-15; 13: 4-11; 14:4-7; 14:8-14; 14:24-37; 15:3-10; 15:24-49; 16:16-24
II Corin. 1:23-2: 4-11; 4:18-5:6; 5:6-12; 6:3-16; 7:3-8
Galat. 1:1-23; 3:20-24; 4:2; 4:4-29; 5:1; 5:24; 6:4-12; 6: 4
Eph. 1:18-2:8; 4:14-27; 5:8-16; 5:17-24
Phill. 2:12-26
Coloss. 4: 6-17
I Thess.1:3-9; 5:15-26
II Thess. 1:3-2:2
II Timothy 3:2-14
Titus 2:7-3:3
Philemon 11-25
II Peter 1:1-12; 3:16-18
significant portions of the Old Testament, as well as the New Testament
Exodus 4:14-18
Deut. 6: 4-21; 7:1-26
I Sam. 1:1; 2:19-29; 4:1-6; 6:5-18
Job 6:1-26; 7: 4-21
Psalms 2:7; 40(41):1; 50(51):1; 56(57):1; 109(110):1; 131(132):1
Proverbs 1:20-22
Isaiah 40:1-8; 63:9-11
Jerem. 11:22-12: 4-8
Joel 2:12-14; 2:20
Micah 4:1-3; 4:3-5
Matt. 1:18-25; 2:1-2; 2:2-8; 2:18-23
Luke 1: 26-38
Leviticus 8:18-30; 11:42-12:2-8
Matt. 27:27-41
Mark 15:16-19
John 13:15-29
John 15:19-26; 16:9
Fragment of a Homily Fragment of a story about Jesus attempting to convert a Roman leader, Berghamus, before 2000 of his own soldiers, in an unnamed city in the Holy Land
Matt. 2:12-23; 3:13-15; 5:1-2.4.30-37; 6:1-4.16-18; 7:12.15-20; 8:7.10-13.16-17.20-21; 9:27-31.36; 10:5; 12:36-38.43-45; 13:36-46; 26:75-27:2.11.13-16.18.20.22-23.26-40;
Mark 14:72-15:2.4-7.10-24.26-28;
Luke 22:60-62.66-67; 23:3-4.20-26.32-34.38;
John 6:53-7:25.45.48-51; 8:12-44; 9:12-10:15; 10:41-12:3.6.9.14-24.26-35.44-49; 14:22-15:15; 16:13-18; 16:29-17:5; 18:1-9.11-13.18-24.28-29.31; 18:36-19:1.4.6.9.16.18.23-24.31-34; 20:1-2.13-16.18-20.25; 20:28-21:1.[5]
The Greek text of this codex is mixed with a predominant element of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category III.[2]
Matthew 8:12
Matthew 8:13
Matthew 27:35
One leaf of the codex was purchased by A. S. Lewis in Cairo in 1895, 89 leaves were received from a Berlin scholar in 1905, and 48 further leaves were purchased in Port Tewfik in 1906.[8]
Gregory classified it as lectionary (ℓ 1561).[9] The manuscript was not mentioned by Hermann von Soden in his Die Schriften des NT.
According to Moir this manuscript contains a substantial record of an early Greek uncial manuscript of the Gospels once at Caesarea, which would have been the sister of Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Vaticanus and Codex Alexandrinus, but is now lost.
Until 2010, the codex was housed at the Westminster College in Cambridge.[2] It was been listed for sale at a Sotheby's auction, where it failed to sell on July 7, 2009.[10] In 2010, the codex was bought by Steve Green, president of Hobby Lobby, directly from Sotheby's after their unsuccessful auction. The codex now resides in the The Green Collection and is featured in its worldwide-traveling exhibition, Passages.[11][12]