Uncial 076

Uncial 076

New Testament manuscript papyri uncials minuscules lectionaries
Text	Acts
Date	5th /6th-century
Script	Greek
Now at	Pierpont Morgan Library
Size	17 x 15 cm
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	II

Uncial 076 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α¹⁰⁰⁸ (Soden), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated palaeographically to the 5th or 6th-century. Formerly it was labeled by י^a.<ref = name = Gregory>C. R. Gregory (1909). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 3. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 1061.</ref>

Description

Survived only one parchment leaf (17 cm by 15 cm). The codex is written in two columns per page, 23 lines per page, 9-10 letters per line.^[1] I contains a part of the Acts of the Apostles (2:11-22) with some missing words or letters.^[2] It used breathings and accents. The nomina sacra are abbreviated. The Old Testament quotations are marked by inverted comma (>).

Text

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type with some alien readings. Aland placed it in Category II.^[1] The most interesting readings occurs in 2:13 where fragment supports Codex Bezae against all other manuscripts.^[3]

θυ εξισταν το δε παντες και διηπορου το αλλος προς τον αλλον λε γοντες τι θε [λει] τουτο ει [ναι ε]τεροι δ[ε εχ]λευαζο λε[γο]ντες ο τι [γλευκους με[μεστω]με νοι ε[ι]σιν [ [σ]ταθεις δε ο πετρος συν τοις ενδεκα επηρεν τη γωνην [α]υτου και απεφθεγ ξατο α[υ]τοις [ ανδρε[ς] ιου δαιο[ι κ]αι οι κατοικουν

τες [ι]λημ παν τες του[το γνωστ[ον υμι   εστω [και ενω τις[ασθε τα ρη[ματα μου ο[υ γαρ ως υ μ[εις υπολα]μ βαν[ετε ου]τ[οι μεθυ[ουσι]ν εστι[ν γαρ] ωρα τριτ[η τη]ς η μερα[ς αλλα τουτ[ο ε]στι   το [ειρημε]υο   δια του [π]ρο φητου [ι]ωηλ και εστα[ι] με τα ταυτα λεγει ο θς εκχεω απο του πνς μου επι πασα[ν σαρκα

History

Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 5th or 6th century.^[4]

The manuscript once belonged to Lord Amherst in Norfolk. In 1908/1909 Lord Amherst sold his library.^[2]

The codex is located now in the Pierpont Morgan Library (Pap. G. 8) at New York City.^[1]

See also

• List of New Testament uncials
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism

References

1. 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.
3. B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt, The Amherst Papyri, being an account of the Greek Papyri in the collection of Lord Amherst of Hackney at Didlington Hall, Norfolk I (London 1900), p. 42.
4. "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 21 April 2011.

Further reading

• B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt, The Amherst Papyri, being an account of the Greek Papyri in the collection of Lord Amherst of Hackney at Didlington Hall, Norfolk I (London 1900), pp. 41–43.