Uncial 065
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Uncial 065 ε 1 (Soden), is a Greek uncial
manuscript
of the New Testament
, dated paleographically to the 6th century.
11:50-12:9, 15:12-16:2, 19:11-24, on 3 parchment leaves (29 cm by 23 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 29 lines per page.
It is a palimpsest
, the upper text contains a Georgian
calendar.
The Greek text of this codex
is a representative of the Byzantine text-type
. Kurt Aland
placed it in Category V.
Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 6th century.
It was examined by Tischendorf, Kurt Treu, and Schmid.
It is currently housed at the Russian National Library
(Suppl. Gr. 6, I) in Saint Petersburg
.
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....
, dated paleographically to the 6th century.
Description
The codex contains a small parts of the JohnGospel of John
The Gospel According to John , commonly referred to as the Gospel of John or simply John, and often referred to in New Testament scholarship as the Fourth Gospel, is an account of the public ministry of Jesus...
11:50-12:9, 15:12-16:2, 19:11-24, on 3 parchment leaves (29 cm by 23 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 29 lines per page.
It is a palimpsest
Palimpsest
A palimpsest is a manuscript page from a scroll or book from which the text has been scraped off and which can be used again. The word "palimpsest" comes through Latin palimpsēstus from Ancient Greek παλίμψηστος originally compounded from πάλιν and ψάω literally meaning “scraped...
, the upper text contains a Georgian
Georgian language
Georgian is the native language of the Georgians and the official language of Georgia, a country in the Caucasus.Georgian is the primary language of about 4 million people in Georgia itself, and of another 500,000 abroad...
calendar.
The Greek text 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 a representative of the Byzantine text-type
Byzantine text-type
The Byzantine text-type is one of several text-types used in textual criticism to describe the textual character of Greek New Testament manuscripts. It is the form found in the largest number of surviving manuscripts, though not in the oldest...
. Kurt 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 V.
Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 6th century.
It was examined by Tischendorf, Kurt Treu, and Schmid.
It is currently housed at the Russian National Library
Russian National Library
The National Library of Russia in St Petersburg, known as the State Public Saltykov-Shchedrin Library from 1932 to 1992 , is the oldest public library in Russia...
(Suppl. Gr. 6, I) in Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...
.
Further reading
- Constantin von TischendorfConstantin von TischendorfLobegott Friedrich Constantin Tischendorf was a noted German Biblical scholar. He deciphered the Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus, a 5th century Greek manuscript of the New Testament, in the 1840s, and rediscovered the Codex Sinaiticus, a 4th century New Testament manuscript, in 1859.Tischendorf...
, Monumenta sacra et profana I, pp. XIII-XIX, 1-48. - Kurt TreuKurt TreuKurt 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...
, Die Griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments in der UdSSR; eine systematische Auswertung des Texthandschriften in Leningrad, Moskau, Kiev, Odessa, Tbilisi und Erevan, T & U 91 (Berlin, 1966), pp. 18-19. - U. B. Schmid, D. C. ParkerDonald C. ParkerDonald C. Parker, also known as Don Parker, is an American retired physician and amateur astronomer, specializing in the research of the Solar System and planetary photography...
, W. J. Elliott, The Gospel according to St. John: The majuscules (Brill 2007), pp. 52-58. [text of the codex in the Gospel of John]