Uncial 0121a

Uncial 0121a (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 1031 (Soden),[1] is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated paleographically to the 10th-century.

Uncial 0121a

New Testament manuscript papyri uncials minuscules lectionaries
1 Cor 15:52-58; 2 Cor 1:1.6-13
Text	1 Corrinthians; 2 Corrinthians †
Date	10th-century
Script	Greek
Now at	British Library
Size	26 cm by 21 cm
Type	Family 1739
Category	III

Description

The codex contains a parts of the 1 Corinthians 15:52-2 Corinthians 1:15; 10:13-12:5 on two parchment leaves (26 cm by 21 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 38 lines per page, in small uncial letters,[2] in red ink. It has errors of iota adscriptum (τηι for τῃ).[3]

2 Cor 1:3-5 (Scrivener's facsimile)

The Greek text of this codex is a mixture of text-types. Aland placed it in Category III.[2]

In 1 Corinthians 15:54 it lacks το φθαρτον τουτο ενδυσηται αφθαρσιαν και along with 088, 0243, 1175, 1739;[4]

In 2 Corinthians 1:10 it reads τηλικουτου θανατου; the reading is supported by א, A, B, C, D^gr, G^gr, K, P, Ψ, 0209, 0243, 33, 81, 88, 104, 181, 326, 330, 436, 451, 614, 1241, 1739, 1877, 1881, 1962, 1984, 1985, 2127, 2492, 2495, Byz.[5]

History

Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 10th-century.[2][6]

The manuscript was examined by Johann Jakob Griesbach. Griesbach was the first who observed similarities between Londoner fragment (0121a) and Hamburger fragment (0121b), and supposed that they came from the same manuscript.[7]

The codex is located in the British Library (Harley MS 5613), in London. It was classified with Uncial 0121b as the same manuscript, but it is now established that they belonged to different manuscripts.[8]

See also

• List of New Testament uncials
• Textual criticism
• Minuscule 385

References

1. Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 41.
2. 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. 122. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
3. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 117.
4. NA26, p. 470
5. UBS3, p. 622.
6. "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 21 April 2011.
7. J.J. Griesbach, Symbolae criticae ad supplendas et corrigendas variarum N. T. lectionum collectiones (Halle, 1793), pp. 164-166
8. Birdsall, J. Neville (1960). "The Two Fragments of the Epistles designated M (0121)". Journal of Theological Studies. 11: 336–338.

External links

• Uncial 0121a at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism
• Harley 5613 at the British Library
• "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 21 April 2011.

Further reading

• Constantin von Tischendorf, Anecdota sacra et profana (Leipzig: 1855), pp. 174–189, 190-205.