Uncial 0116

Uncial 0116

New Testament manuscript

Text Matthew 19-21; 26-27; Mark 13-14; Luke 3-4 †
Date 8th-century
Script Greek
Now at Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III
Size 26 x 20 cm
Type Byzantine text-type
Category V

Uncial 0116 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 58 (Soden);[1] is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated paleographically to the 8th-century.[2] Formerly it was labelled at first by R (Griesbach and Scholz), then by Wb (Tischendorf), because letter R was reserved for Codex Nitriensis.[3]

Description

The codex contains a small parts of the Matthew 19:14-28; 20:23-21:2; 26:52-27:1; Mark 13:21-14:67; Luke 3:1-4:20,[4] on 14 thick parchment leaves (26 cm by 20 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 25 lines per page, in oblong uncial letters, leaning to the right.[3] It contains the Ammonian Sections numbers, without references to the Eusebian Canons (erased), and lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use).[5]

It is a palimpsests.[2]

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[2]

History

Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 8th-century.[2][6]

The codex was examined by Griesbach and Scholz. In 1843 it was exposed to chemicals by Tischendorf, who collated its text. Tischendorf pronounces to be an Evangelistarium.[5][7]

The codex now is located in the Biblioteca Nazionale (II C 15), in Naples.[2][6]

See also

References

  1. Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 40.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 121. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. pp. 144, 151.
  4. Kurt Aland, Synopsis Quattuor Evangeliorum. Locis parallelis evangeliorum apocryphorum et patrum adhibitis edidit, Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1996, p. XXIV.
  5. 5.0 5.1 Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 77.
  6. 6.0 6.1 "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 21 April 2011.
  7. Tischendorf, Prolegomena, p. 395.

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