Uncial 085

Uncial 085

New Testament manuscript

Text Gospel of Matthew 20:3-32; 22:3-16
Date 6th century
Script Greek
Now at Russian National Library
Size 24 x 21 cm
Type Alexandrian text-type
Category II

Uncial 085 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 23 (Soden), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated palaeographically to the 6th century.[1]

Description

The codex contains two small parts of the Gospel of Matthew 20:3-32; 22:3-16 on 3 parchment leaves (24 cm by 21 cm). Written in two columns per page, 27 lines per page (size of text 17 by 13.5 cm).[1][2]

The letters are similar to Coptic. The pages are numbered in the same way as Coptic manuscripts.[2]

Text

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type with some alien readings. According some authorities the text has mixed character. Aland placed it in Category II.[1]

Matthew 20:23

phrase και το βαπτισμα ο εγω βαπτιζομαι βαπτισθησεσθε (and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with) omitted, as in codices Sinaiticus, B, D, L, Z, Θ, f1, f13, it, syrs, c, copsa.[3]

History

Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 6th century.[1][4] The manuscript was written in a Coptic monastery.[2]

The codex formerly was in Cairo. Now is located at the Russian National Library (Gr. 714) in Saint Petersburg.[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. 120. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 C. R. Gregory, "Textkritik des Neuen Testaments", Leipzig 1900, vol. 1, p. 68.
  3. ↑ NA26, p. 56.
  4. ↑ "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 21 April 2011.

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