Uncial 0118 (in the
Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 62 (
Soden); is a
Greek uncial 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 ...
, dated
paleographically to the 8th century.
Description
The codex contains a small fragment of the
Gospel of Matthew
The Gospel of Matthew), or simply Matthew. It is most commonly abbreviated as "Matt." is the first book of the New Testament of the Bible and one of the three synoptic Gospels. It tells how Israel's Messiah, Jesus, comes to his people and for ...
11:27-28,
[Kurt Aland, ''Synopsis Quattuor Evangeliorum. Locis parallelis evangeliorum apocryphorum et patrum adhibitis edidit'', Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1996, p. XXIV. ] on one parchment leaves (11 cm by 10 cm). It is written in 10 lines per page, in uncial letters.
[ ] The letters are large and leaned into right; it has breathings and accents.
The text-type of the Greek text of this
codex
The codex (plural codices ) was the historical ancestor of the modern book. Instead of being composed of sheets of paper, it used sheets of vellum, papyrus, or other materials. The term ''codex'' is often used for ancient manuscript books, with ...
is unknown. Text is too brief to classify.
Aland did not placed it in any
Category.
[
ΟΥΔΕ]ΤΟΝ Ρ
ΤΙΣΕΠΙΓΙΝΩΣ
ΚΕΙ.ΕΙΜΗΟΥΣ
ΚΑΙΩΕΑΝΒΟΥ
ΛΗΤΑΙΟΥΣΑ
ΠΟΚΑΛΥ Ι.
ΔΕΥΤΕΠΡΟΣΜΕ
ΠΑΝΤΕΣΟΙΚΟ
ΠΙΩΝΤΕΣΚΑΙ
ΠΕΦΟΡΤΙΣΜΕ
]
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 8th century.J. Rendel Harris
James Rendel Harris ( Plymouth, Devon, 27 January 1852 – 1 March 1941) was an English biblical scholar and curator of manuscripts, who was instrumental in bringing back to light many Syriac Scriptures and other early documents. His contacts at t ...
in the Saint Catherine's Monastery
Saint Catherine's Monastery ( ar, دير القدّيسة كاترين; grc-gre, Μονὴ τῆς Ἁγίας Αἰκατερίνης), officially the Sacred Autonomous Royal Monastery of Saint Katherine of the Holy and God-Trodden Mount Sinai, ...
,[ in ]Sinai
Sinai commonly refers to:
* Sinai Peninsula, Egypt
* Mount Sinai, a mountain in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt
* Biblical Mount Sinai, the site in the Bible where Moses received the Law of God
Sinai may also refer to:
* Sinai, South Dakota, a place ...
peninsula, where is located to the present day (Sinai Harris 6).[
]
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 ...
* 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
Further reading
* J. Rendel Harris
James Rendel Harris ( Plymouth, Devon, 27 January 1852 – 1 March 1941) was an English biblical scholar and curator of manuscripts, who was instrumental in bringing back to light many Syriac Scriptures and other early documents. His contacts at t ...
''Biblical Fragments from Mount Sinai''
(London, 1890), pp. X, 15.
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Greek New Testament uncials
8th-century biblical manuscripts