Uncial 066

Uncial 066

New Testament manuscript

Text Acts 28
Date 6th-century
Script Greek
Now at Russian National Library
Size 25 x 20 cm
Type Western text-type
Category III

Uncial 066 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 1000 (Soden),[1] is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 6th-century.

Description

The codex contains a small part of the Acts 28:8-17, on one parchment leaf (25 cm by 20 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 25 lines per page. It is a palimpsest. The upper text has a Georgian calendar.[2]

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Western text-type, but it has some the Caesarean readings. Kurt Aland placed it in Category III.[2]

Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 6th century.[3]

Constantin von Tischendorf published its text.[4]

It is currently housed at the Russian National Library (Suppl. Gr. 6, II, fol 4) in Saint Petersburg.[2][3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 38.
  2. 1 2 3 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. 119. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
  3. 1 2 "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 21 April 2011.
  4. ↑ Constantin von Tischendorf, "Monumenta sacra et profana" I (Leipzig: 1846), pp. 43 ff.

Further reading

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