Uncial 0245

New Testament manuscripts
papyri • uncials • minuscules • lectionaries
Uncial 0245
Text 1 John 3-4
Date 6th century
Script Greek
Now at Queen's College, Edgbaston
Size 27 cm by 20 cm
Type Alexandrian text-type
Category II

Uncial 0245 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 6th century.

Contents

Description

The codex contains a small part of the 1 John 3:23-4:1,3-6, on 1 parchment leaf (27 cm by 20 cm). Written in one columns per page, 23 lines per page, in uncial letters.[1]

Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 6th century.[1][2]

It is a palimpsest, the upper text is written in Georgian language.

Location

Currently the codex is housed at the Selly Oak Colleges (Mingana Georg. 7) in Birmingham.[1]

Text

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

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d 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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