Uncial 0240

New Testament manuscripts
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Uncial 0240
Text Titus 1:4-8
Date 5th century
Script Greek
Now at Georgian National Center of Manuscripts
Size 26 x 22 cm
Type Alexandrian text-type
Category II

Uncial 0240 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 5th century.[1]

Contents

Description

The codex contains a small part of the Epistle to Titus 1:4-8, on one parchment leaf (26 cm by 22 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 23 lines per page, in uncial letters.[1]

It is a palimpsest. The upper text is written in Georgian, it contains a menologion.

Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 5th century.[1][2]

Text

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category II.[1]

Location

Currently the codex is housed at the Georgian National Center of Manuscripts (2123, ff. 191, 198) in Tbilisi.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Aland, Kurt; Barbara Aland; Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 126. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1. 
  2. ^ "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php. Retrieved 23 April 2011. 

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