Uncial 0187 (in the
Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 024 (
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 6th century.
Description
The codex contains a small parts of the
Gospel of Mark
The Gospel of Mark), or simply Mark (which is also its most common form of abbreviation). is the second of the four canonical gospels and of the three synoptic Gospels. It tells of the ministry of Jesus from his baptism by John the Baptist to h ...
6:30-41, on one
parchment
Parchment is a writing material made from specially prepared untanned skins of animals—primarily sheep, calves, and goats. It has been used as a writing medium for over two millennia. Vellum is a finer quality parchment made from the skins of ...
leaf (24 cm by 18 cm). It is written in two columns per page, 26 lines per page, in uncial letters.
[ The fragment contains about 339 letters from 1044 on both sides of the leaf.]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 mixed. Aland placed it in Category III.[
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 6th-century.Guglielmo Cavallo
Guglielmo Cavallo (born 18 August 1938 in Carovigno) is an Italian palaeographer, Emeritus Professor of the Sapienza University of Rome.
Life
Cavallo graduated from the University of Bari in 1961, with Carlo Ferdinando Russo; shortly after, he ...
.[G. Cavallo, ''Ricerche sulla maiuscola biblica'', Florence 1967, 82. 3f.]
The codex is currently housed at the University of Heidelberg
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Heidelberg University, officially the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, (german: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; la, Universitas Ruperto Carola Heidelbergensis) is a public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, ...
(Pap. 1354) in Heidelberg
Heidelberg (; Palatine German language, Palatine German: ''Heidlberg'') is a city in the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany. As of the 2016 census, its population was 159,914 ...
.[
]
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
* A. Deissmann, ''Veröffentlichungen aus der Heidelberger Papyrussammlung'' I, (Heidelberg: 1905).
External links
Papyrus 1354 (Uncial 0187)
at the Heidelberger Papyrus-Sammlung
Uncial 0187
at the Wieland Willker, "Textual Commentary"
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Greek New Testament uncials
6th-century biblical manuscripts