Uncial 0204

Uncial 0204

New Testament manuscript

Text Matthew 24:39-42,44-48
Date 7th century
Script Greek-Coptic
Now at British Library
Size 25 x 21 cm
Type Alexandrian text-type
Category II

Uncial 0204 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek-Coptic diglot uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated paleographically to the 7th century.[1]

Description

The codex contains a small parts of the Gospel of Matthew 24:39-42,44-48 (Coptic 24:30-33,35-37), on one parchment leaf (25 cm by 21 cm). It is written in two columns per page, 26 lines per page, in very large uncial letters.[1] The Coptic part is written in Fayumic dialect.

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

Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 7th century.[1][2]

The Coptic text was examined by Walter Ewing Crum in 1905 (as P. Lond. Copt. 500). The manuscript was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by Ernst von Dobschütz in 1933.[3][4]

The codex currently is housed at the British Library (Gr. 4923 (2)) in London.[1]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 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. 125. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
  2. ↑ "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 2014-02-21.
  3. ↑ Kurt Aland (1963). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechieschen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. p. 10.
  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. 74. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.

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