| New Testament manuscript | |
| Text | Revelation 18:16-17; 19:4-6 |
|---|---|
| Date | 8th-century |
| Script | Greek |
| Now at | Laurentian Library |
| Size | 11 x 23 cm |
| Type | mixed |
| Category | III |
Uncial 0229 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament. The manuscript paleographically has been assigned to the 8th century. It is a palimpsest.
Description
The manuscript contains a small part of the Book of Revelation (18:16-17; 19:4-6), on two parchment leaves (11 cm by 23 cm). The text is written in one column per page, 16 lines per page.
It is a palimpsest, the lower text is Coptic. It contains a calendar text with list of Egyptian months.
The Greek text of this codex is mixed. Kurt Aland placed it in Category III.
Guglielmo Cavallo dated the manuscript to the 7th or 8th century. It is dated by the Institute for New Testament Textual Research to the 8th century.
The manuscript was found in Antinoopolis (El-Sheikh Ibada) in Egypt. It was examined by Giovanni Mercati (1953) and Mario Naldini (1965). Mercati transcribed the text of the codex.
The manuscript was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by Kurt Aland in 1953.
The codex used to be housed at the Laurentian Library (PSI 1296b), in Florence. According to the Liste, 0229 has been destroyed.
See also
References
- ^ 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. pp. 125–126. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
- ^ PSI 13 1296 at the Leuven Database of Ancient Books
- ^ "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
- Kurt Aland (1963). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechieschen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. p. 10.
Further reading
- G. Mercati, Pubblicazioni della Società Italiana XIII (1953), pp. 1, 8-11.