Uncial 0262 is a Greek uncial

Uncial

Uncial is a majuscule script commonly used from the 3rd to 8th centuries AD by Latin and Greek scribes. Uncial letters are written in either Greek, Latin, or Gothic.-Development:...

 manuscript

Manuscript

A manuscript or handwrite is written information that has been manually created by someone or some people, such as a hand-written letter, as opposed to being printed or reproduced some other way...

 of the New Testament

New Testament

The New Testament is the second major division of the Christian biblical canon, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....

. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 7th century.

Description

The codex contains small part of the First Epistle to Timothy

First Epistle to Timothy

The First Epistle of Paul to Timothy, usually referred to simply as First Timothy and often written 1 Timothy, is one of three letters in the New Testament of the Bible often grouped together as the Pastoral Epistles, the others being Second Timothy and Titus...

 1:15-16, on one parchment leaf (12 cm by 10 cm). It is survived in a fragmentary condition. Probably it was written in two columns per page, 6 lines per page, in uncial letters.

Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 7th century.

It was examined by Kurt Treu

Kurt Treu

Kurt Treu , German classical philologist, was a son of a German parson on the island Saaremaa, the largest island of Estonia. In 1940, because of World War II, the Treu family was forced to leave their homeland. Kurt Treu studied in a Gymnasium in Hohensalza. AS levels were studied by him after the...

 and Horseley.

Text

Col I

[πισ]τος ω λλοκος

και πασης αποτοχης

αξιος οτι Χριστος Ις

[ηλθεν] ει[ς τ]ων

[κοσμον αμα]ρ

[τωλους σωσαι]

Col II

ομ προτος ιμιν

εγω, αλα δια τατο

ελεηθην; ινα εν ε

μοι προτω ενδι[ξη]

τε Χς; [Ις] την [απα]

[σαν μακροθυμιαν]

[transcribed by Kurt Treu

Kurt Treu

Kurt Treu , German classical philologist, was a son of a German parson on the island Saaremaa, the largest island of Estonia. In 1940, because of World War II, the Treu family was forced to leave their homeland. Kurt Treu studied in a Gymnasium in Hohensalza. AS levels were studied by him after the...

]

Τhe οriginal οrthography is heavily phoneticized. Treu provides the following transcription orthography normalized.

Πιστος ο λογος και πασης αποδοχης αξιος, οτι Χριστος ηλθεν εις τον κοσμον αμαρτολους σωσαι ων πρωτος ειμι εγς αλλα δια τουτο ηλεηθην, ινα εν εμοι πρωτω ενδειξηται Χριστος Ιησους την απασαν μακροθυμιαν.

The text-type of this codex

Codex

A codex is a book in the format used for modern books, with multiple quires or gatherings typically bound together and given a cover.Developed by the Romans from wooden writing tablets, its gradual replacement...

 is mixed. Aland

Kurt Aland

Kurt Aland was a German Theologian and Professor of New Testament Research and Church History. He founded the Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung in Münster and served as its first director for many years...

 placed it in Category III.

Location

Currently the codex is housed at the Berlin State Museums

Berlin State Museums

The Berlin State Museums, in German Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, are a group of museums in Berlin, Germany overseen by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and funded by the German federal government in collaboration with Germany's federal states...

 (P. 13977) in Berlin

Berlin

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.

Further reading

• Kurt Treu
  Kurt Treu
  Kurt Treu , German classical philologist, was a son of a German parson on the island Saaremaa, the largest island of Estonia. In 1940, because of World War II, the Treu family was forced to leave their homeland. Kurt Treu studied in a Gymnasium in Hohensalza. AS levels were studied by him after the...
  
  , "Neue Neutestamentliche Fragmente der Berliner Papyrussammlung", APF 18 (Berlin: 1966), pp. 23-38.
• G. H. R. Horseley, "New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity" 2 (Macquarie University, 1982), pp. 125-140.

External links

• Peter Head, Two Parchments Witnessing First Timothy 1 (2007)