Uncial 0197 (in the
Gregory-Aland numbering), is a
Greek uncial manuscript of the
New Testament, dated
paleographically to the 9th-century.
Description
The codex contains a small parts of the
Matthew
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20:22-23,25-27; 22:30-32,34-37, on two parchment leaves (27 cm by 24.5 cm). It is written in one column per page, 12 lines per page, in very large uncial letters. It is a
palimpsest, the lower text is in Syriac.
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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 a representative of the
Byzantine text-type.
Aland placed it in
Category V.
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 9th-century.
The codex currently is housed at the Benedictine
Abbey in
Beuron
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Geography
Beuron is divided into subdistricts ( ...
.
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 ...
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Textual criticism
References
Further reading
* Alban Dodd, ''Neue Palimpsest-Bruchstücke der griechischen Bibel; Zwei bekannte neugelesene Palimpsest-Bruchstücke einer St Galler Evangelienhandschrift'', BZ 18 (1929), pp. 241-270.
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Palimpsests
Greek New Testament uncials
9th-century biblical manuscripts