Uncial 0321
Uncial 0321 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 2 (Soden),[1] is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated paleographically to the 5th-century. The manuscript has survived in very fragmentary condition.
New Testament manuscript | |
Text | Gospel of Matthew † |
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Date | 5th-century |
Script | Greek |
Found | Sinai |
Now at | Russian National Library |
Size | 20 × 15.5 cm (7.9 × 6.1 in) |
Type | mixed |
Category | III |
Description
The codex contains a small part of the Gospel of Matthew 14:13-16.19-23; 24:37-25:1.32-45 on 3 parchment leaves of size 20 × 15.5 cm (7.9 × 6.1 in). The text is written in two columns per page, 27 lines per page.[2]
The uncial letters are written separately, without breathings (rough breathing, smooth breathing) and accents. The initial letters are written on the margin. There is a punctuation and signs of interrogative. It does not use Iota subscriptum.[3] The errors of itacism occur rarely, it uses N ephelkystikon, the abbreviations are used rarely.[3] The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin.[3]
It is a palimpsest, the upper text was written in the 10th century in Georgian language it contains calendar.[2]
The Greek text of this codex is mixed, influenced by the Byzantine text-type. Aland and Barbara Aland placed it in Category III.[4]
History
The manuscript is dated on the palaeographical ground to the 5th-century.[2] Probably it was brought from Sinai by Constantin von Tischendorf.[5] Gregory catalogued it as Uncial 067 on his list. After re-examination made by Pasquale Orsini it is clear that it is different manuscript.[6] In 2010 it was catalogued by the INTF separately as 0321.[2]
The manuscript was examined by Tischendorf, who edited its text in 1846.[7] It was also examined and described by Eduard de Muralt,[8] Kurt Treu,[9] and recently by Pasquale Orsini.[6]
It is currently housed at the Russian National Library (Suppl. Gr. 6 III, fol. 10-12) in Saint Petersburg.[2]
References
- Soden, von, Hermann (1902). Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte. 1. Berlin: Verlag von Alexander Duncker. pp. 118–119.
- "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
- Eduard de Muralt, Catalogue des manuscrits grecs de la Bibliothèque Impériale publique (Petersburg 1864), pp. 4–5.
- Kurt Aland et Barbara Aland, The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism, trans. Erroll F. Rhodes, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1995, p. 119.
- "LDAB ID: 2900". Leuven Database of Ancient Books.
- P. Orsini, Manoscritti in maiuscola biblica. Materiali per un aggiornamento, Cassino, Edizioni dell’Università degli Studi di Cassino (2005), p. 296.
- Constantin von Tischendorf, Monumenta sacra et profana I (Leipzig: 1846), pp. XIII-XIX, 3-34.
- Eduard de Muralt, Catalogue des manuscrits grecs de la Bibliothèque Impériale publique (Petersburg 1864), pp. 4–5.
- Kurt Treu, Die Griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments in der USSR; eine systematische Auswertung des Texthandschriften in Leningrad, Moskau, Kiev, Odessa, Tbilisi und Erevan, T & U 91 (Berlin: 1966), pp. 23–24.
Further reading
- Constantin von Tischendorf, Monumenta sacra et profana I (Leipzig: 1846), pp. XIII-XIX, 3-34.
- Kurt Treu, Die Griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments in der USSR; eine systematische Auswertung des Texthandschriften in Leningrad, Moskau, Kiev, Odessa, Tbilisi und Erevan, T & U 91 (Berlin: 1966), pp. 23–24.
- Eduard de Muralt, Catalogue des manuscrits grecs de la Bibliothèque Impériale publique (Petersburg 1864), pp. 4–5.
- P. Orsini, Manoscritti in maiuscola biblica. Materiali per un aggiornamento, Cassino, Edizioni dell’Università degli Studi di Cassino, 2005 (Collana scientifica, Studi Archeologici, Artistici, Filologici, Letterari e Storici, 7).