Uncial 0121b (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), it was named as Fragmentum Uffenbachianum, or Codex Ruber. It is a

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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 The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and is one ...

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of the

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, dated palaeographically to the 10th-century. The manuscript is very lacunose.

Description

The codex contains parts of

Hebrews The terms ''Hebrews'' (Hebrew: / , Modern: ' / ', Tiberian: ' / '; ISO 259-3: ' / ') and ''Hebrew people'' are mostly considered synonymous with the Semitic-speaking Israelites, especially in the pre-monarchic period when they were still no ...

1:1-4:3; 12:20-13:25 on two parchment leaves (). The text is written in two columns per page, 45 lines per page, in small

semi-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, p. 494. script (written entirely in capital letters) commonly used from the 4th to ...

letters, in red ink (hence ''Codex Ruber''). The accents and notes of aspiration are carefully marked, but the

iota subscript The iota subscript is a diacritic mark in the Greek alphabet shaped like a small vertical stroke or miniature iota placed below the letter. It can occur with the vowel letters eta , omega , and alpha . It represents the former presence of an ...

um does not occur anywhere. T. H. Horne, ''An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures'', (New York, 1852), vol. 1852, p. 237. The

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um occurs three times, ν εφελκυστικον is rare. The interrogative (;) occurs once (Heb 3:7), and the inverted comma (>) is often repeated to mark quotations. The letters are a little unusual, small in form, and their character is between

and

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, and in the 19th century the codex was classified as a minuscule manuscript (catalogue number 53). Tregelles argued that they are more uncial by character, they are almost entirely separate, and sometimes joined in the same word. "They are certainly by no means cursive, in the common acceptation of the term". According to Scrivener they "can hardly be called ''semicursive''". According to

Günther Zuntz Günther Zuntz (28 January 1902 – 3 April 1992), German-English classical philologist, professor of Hellenistic Greek and Bible scholar. He obtained a D.Phil. from the University of Marburg in 1928 and was later a professor at the University of M ...

it is an uncial manuscript, its letters are that kind of uncial script, which scribes of the 10th and later centuries used. The size is the same as in

Uncial 0121a Uncial 0121a (in the Biblical manuscript#Gregory-Aland, Gregory-Aland numbering), α 1031 (Biblical manuscript#Von Soden, Soden), is a Greek language, Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated Palaeography, paleographically to the 10th-c ...

, the number of lines is almost the same, and characters of letters are similar, therefore they were originally described and classified as the same manuscript (f.e.

F. H. A. Scrivener Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener (September 29, 1813, Bermondsey, Surrey – October 30, 1891, Hendon, Middlesex) was a New Testament textual critic and a member of the English New Testament Revision Committee which produced the Revised Version ...

). They received catalogue number 0121 in the Gregory-Aland system. Now after more accurate examination, they are unanimously considered to belong to different manuscripts.

Text

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the mixed text-type. Aland placed it in Category III. It does not contain Hebrews verse 2:1. The omission is supported by minuscules

1739 Events January–March * January 1 – Bouvet Island is discovered by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, in the South Atlantic Ocean. * January 3: A 7.6 earthquake shakes the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region ...

and 1881 In Hebrews 2:9 it reads χωρὶς θεοῦ (''apart from God'') for χάριτι θεοῦ (''by the grace of God''). The reading of the codex is supported by 424^c, 1739, mss,

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Origen Origen of Alexandria, ''Ōrigénēs''; Origen's Greek name ''Ōrigénēs'' () probably means "child of Horus" (from , "Horus", and , "born"). ( 185 – 253), also known as Origen Adamantius, was an Early Christianity, early Christian scholar, ...

Theodore of Mopsuestia Theodore of Mopsuestia (c. 350 – 428) was a Christian theologian, and Bishop of Mopsuestia (as Theodore II) from 392 to 428 AD. He is also known as Theodore of Antioch, from the place of his birth and presbyterate. He is the best known ...

, St. Ambrose of Milan, St. Jerome, Fulgentius, Theodoret.UBS3, p. 750

History

Currently it is dated by the

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to the 10th-century. The manuscript came from Italy. It once belonged to H. van der Merk. In 1712 it was in

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. The manuscript once belonged to

Conrad von Uffenbach Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach (22 February 1683 – 6 January 1734) was a German scholar, bibliophile, book-collector, traveller, palaeographer, and consul in Frankfurt am Main who is best known today for his published travelogues. Biography He ...

(hence the name ''Fragmentum Uffenbachianum''), then to J. C. Wolf, and after his death in 1739 to the Public Library of Hamburg. It was very imperfectly described by Maius,

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, Griesbach, and Bengel. Tregelles collated its text twice.

Constantin von Tischendorf Lobegott Friedrich Constantin (von) Tischendorf (18 January 18157 December 1874) was a German biblical scholar. In 1844, he discovered the world's oldest and most complete Bible dated to around the mid-4th century and called Codex Sinaiticus a ...

edited its text in 1855 (with 5 errors) and in 1861 corrected these 5 errors. The codex now is located in the

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(Cod. 50), in

Hamburg (male), (female) en, Hamburger(s), Hamburgian(s) , timezone1 = Central (CET) , utc_offset1 = +1 , timezone1_DST = Central (CEST) , utc_offset1_DST = +2 , postal ...

References

External links

* Robert Waltz
Uncial 0121a
at the ''Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Uncial 0121b Greek New Testament uncials 10th-century biblical manuscripts

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