Uncial 0169 (in the
Gregory-Aland numbering), known also as the ''Princeton fragment'', is a
Greek
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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, p. 494. script (written entirely in capital letters) commonly used from the 4th to ...
manuscript
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of the
New Testament
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, dated
palaeographically to the 4th century.
Description
The codex contains a small parts of the
Book of Revelation
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3:19-4:3, on an almost complete parchment leaf (9.3 cm by 7.7 cm). It is written in one column per page, 14 lines per page, in small uncial letters.
The hand of the codex is a fair-sized upright uncial, fairly regular.
[Bruce M. Metzger, ''Manuscripts of the Greek Bible. An Introduction to Greek Paleography'', '']Oxford University Press
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'', New York - Oxford 1991, p. 72.
The letter
sigma was formed with two strokes of the pen, and
epsilon with three strokes; the letters
kappa and
upsilon
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E ...
have serifs.
The two pages are numbered in the outside upper corner 33 and 34. The
nomina sacra
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are written in abbreviated forms, but some of the usual contractions are written in length forms (e.g. ουρανω).
[B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, ''Oxyrhynchus Papyri'' VIII (London 1911), p. 15.]
Text
The Greek text of this
codex is a representative of the
Alexandrian text-type.
Aland placed it in
Category III.
[ According to R. H. Charles the text is "much more closely with ]Codex Sinaiticus
The Codex Sinaiticus ( Shelfmark: London, British Library, Add MS 43725), designated by siglum [Aleph] or 01 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), δ 2 (in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscript ...
than with any other uncial". The text seems to be inaccurately copied.[
Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 4th century.]
The text was edited in 1911 by Grenfell and Hunt.[ B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt]
''Oxyrhynchus Papyri'' VIII
(London 1911), pp. 14–16.
The codex currently is housed at the Princeton Theological Seminary
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(Speer Library, Pap. 5) in Princeton
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.
See also
* List of New Testament uncials
* Textual criticism
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* Related Bible
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parts: Revelation 3
Revelation 3 is the third chapter of the Book of Revelation or the Apocalypse of John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. The book is traditionally attributed to John the Apostle, but the precise identity of the author remains a point of ...
, Revelation 4
Revelation 4 is the fourth chapter of the Book of Revelation or the Apocalypse of John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. The book is traditionally attributed to John the Apostle, but the precise identity of the author remains a point of ...
References
Further reading
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External links
* – digitalized manuscript
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Greek New Testament uncials
4th-century biblical manuscripts
Princeton Theological Seminary
1080
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Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
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