Uncial 0189
| Uncial 0189 | |
|---|---|
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| Text | Acts 5:3-21 |
| Date | c. 200 |
| Script | Greek |
| Found | unknown |
| Now at | Berlin State Museums |
| Cite | A.H. Salonius, 'Die griechischen Handschriftenfragmente des Neuen Testaments in den Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin', ZNW 26 (1927): 116-119. |
| Size | 1 vellum leaf; 18 x 11.5 cm; 32 lines/page |
| Type | Alexandrian |
| Category | I |
| Hand | reformed documentary |
| Note | page numbers suggest Acts only codex |
Uncial 0189 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is the oldest parchment manuscript of the New Testament.
Description
It consists of a single vellum leaf of a late second or early third century Greek codex, containing only a small part of the Acts of the Apostles.[1]
Its history is unknown prior to its current possession by the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Uncial 0189 measures 11.5 cm by 18 cm from a page of 32 lines. The scribe wrote in a reformed documentary hand.
The nomina sacra are written in an abbreviated way: ΑΝΟΣ ΠΝΑ ΚΥ ΚΩ ΙΛΗΜ ΘΩ ΙΣΗΛ.
The Alands describe the text-type as "at least normal". Uncial 0189 is an important early witness to the Alexandrian text-type, nearly always agreeing with the other witnesses to this type of text.[2] Aland placed it in Category I (because of date).[3]
Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 2nd or 3rd century.[4]
The manuscript was included to a critical apparatus by Kurt Aland in his 25th edition of Novum Testamentum Graece (1963).[5]
It is classed as a "consistently cited witness of the first order" in the Novum Testamentum Graece (NA27).[6] 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."[7]
The text was first published by Aarne H. Salonius in Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft in 1927.
See also
- Other early uncials
- Sortable lists
- List of New Testament minuscules
- List of New Testament papyri
- List of New Testament uncials
- Related articles
References
- ↑ Comfort, Philip W.; David P. Barrett (2001). The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts. Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers. p. 693. ISBN 978-0-8423-5265-9.
- ↑ Philip W. Comfort and David P. Barrett, The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts, (Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers Incorporated, 2001), pp. 692-695.
- ↑ 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. pp. 104, 124. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
- ↑ "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 23 April 2011.
- ↑ Michael W. Holmes, From Nestle to the `Editio Critica Maior`, in: The Bible as Book: The Transmission of the Greek Text, London 2003, p. 128. ISBN 0-7123-4727-5
- ↑ Eberhard Nestle, Erwin Nestle, Barbara Aland and Kurt Aland (eds),Novum Testamentum Graece, 27th edition, (Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2001), 59.
- ↑ NA27: 58.