Uncial 0320 (in the
Gregory-Aland numbering), is a diglot
Greek
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Latin
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uncial
Uncial is a majuscule Glaister, Geoffrey Ashall. (1996) ''Encyclopedia of the Book''. 2nd edn. New Castle, DE, and London: Oak Knoll Press & The British Library
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manuscript
A manuscript (abbreviated MS for singular and MSS for plural) was, traditionally, any document written by hand – or, once practical typewriters became available, typewritten – as opposed to mechanically printing, printed or repr ...
of the
New Testament
The New Testament grc, Ἡ Καινὴ Διαθήκη, transl. ; la, Novum Testamentum. (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon. It discusses the teachings and person of Jesus, as well as events in first-century Christ ...
on parchment.
Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 10th-century. Formerly it was designated by D
abs2. The manuscript is very lacunose.
It is particularly notable as one of the two such copies which display clear evidence of having had
Claromontanus as exemplar.
[ C. R. Gregory, "Textkritik des Neuen Testaments", Leipzig 1900, vol. 1, p. 109.]
Description
The codex contains a small texts of the
Epistle to the Ephesians
The Epistle to the Ephesians is the tenth book of the New Testament. Its authorship has traditionally been attributed to Paul the Apostle but starting in 1792, this has been challenged as Deutero-Pauline, that is, pseudepigrapha written in Pau ...
1:3–9; 2:11–18, on six parchment leaves of size . The text is written in one column per page, 42 lines per page.
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the
Western text-type
In textual criticism of the New Testament, the Western text-type is one of the main text types. It is the predominant form of the New Testament text witnessed in the Old Latin and Syriac Peshitta translations from the Greek, and also in quotations ...
.
Kurt Aland
Kurt Aland (28 March 1915 – 13 April 1994) was a German theologian and biblical scholar who specialized in New Testament textual criticism. He founded the '' Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung'' (Institute for New Testament Textua ...
placed it in
Category III (Aland's Profile 139
1 30
1/2 44
2 35
S).
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]
History
Currently it is dated by the INTF
The Institute for New Testament Textual Research (german: Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung — INTF) at the University of Münster, Westphalia, Germany, is to research the textual history of the New Testament and to reconstruct its G ...
to the 10th-century.[
It is currently housed at the ]Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg
The Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAM, "Hessian State Archives in Marburg") is one of the three archives of the Hessisches Landesarchiv and is based in Marburg
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(Best. 147 Hr. 2 Nr. 2, 6 fol.).[
]
See also
* List of New Testament uncials
A New Testament uncial is a section of the New Testament in Greek or Latin majuscule letters, written on parchment or vellum. This style of writing is called ''Biblical Uncial'' or ''Biblical Majuscule''.
New Testament uncials are distinct fro ...
* Biblical manuscript
A biblical manuscript is any handwritten copy of a portion of the text of the Bible. Biblical manuscripts vary in size from tiny scrolls containing individual verses of the Jewish scriptures (see ''Tefillin'') to huge polyglot codices (multi-ling ...
* Textual criticism
Textual criticism is a branch of textual scholarship, philology, and of literary criticism that is concerned with the identification of textual variants, or different versions, of either manuscripts or of printed books. Such texts may range in ...
References
External links
"Continuation of the Manuscript List"
Institute for New Testament Textual Research, University of Münster
The University of Münster (german: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, WWU) is a public university, public research university located in the city of Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany.
With more than 43,000 students and over ...
. Retrieved September 8, 2009
* Viktor Schultze
"Codex Waldeccensis (Dw Paul): unbekannte Fragmente einer Griechisch-Lateinischen Bibelhandschrift"
C.H. Becksche, 1904. facsimile of Uncial 0320* E. Nestle
''Zwei griechisch-lateinische Handschriften des Neuen Testaments''
ZNW, Giessen 1907, p. 239.
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Greek New Testament uncials
10th-century biblical manuscripts