Uncial 0247

New Testament manuscripts
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Uncial 0247
Text 1 Peter 5:13-14 - 2 Peter 1:5-8,14-16; 2:1
Date 5th / 6th century
Script Greek
Now at John Rylands Library
Size 29 cm by 23 cm
Type Alexandrian text-type
Category II

Uncial 0247 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 5th or 6th century.

Contents

Description

The codex contains a small part of the 1 Peter 5:13-14 - 2 Peter 1:5-8,14-16; 2:1, on 2 parchment leaves (29 cm by 23 cm). Written in two columns per page, 36 lines per page, in uncial letters.[1]

It is a palimpsest, the upper text was written in Coptic, it contains a prayer.

Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 5th or 6th century.[1][2]

Location

Currently the codex is housed at the John Rylands Library (P. Copt. 20) in Manchester.[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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