Uncial 0220 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), also known as the Wyman fragment'

is a leaf of a third-century Greek codex containing the

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Uncial 0220 measures 12 by 15 cm. There are 14 lines to a page. The

recto ''Recto'' is the "right" or "front" side and ''verso'' is the "left" or "back" side when text is written or printed on a leaf of paper () in a bound item such as a codex, book, broadsheet, or pamphlet. Etymology The terms are shortened from ...

(4:23-5:3) is legible, but little can be made out on the

verso ' is the "right" or "front" side and ''verso'' is the "left" or "back" side when text is written or printed on a leaf of paper () in a bound item such as a codex, book, broadsheet, or pamphlet. Etymology The terms are shortened from Latin ...

(5:8-12). The

scribe A scribe is a person who serves as a professional copyist, especially one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of automatic printing. The profession of the scribe, previously widespread across cultures, lost most of its promi ...

wrote in a reformed documentary hand. The Alands describes the text-type as "strict". Uncial 0220 is an important early witness to the

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, agreeing with Vaticanus everywhere except Rom. 5:1. (See Below) It is classed as a "consistently cited witness of the first order" in the Novum Testamentum Graece.

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, Erwin Nestle, Barbara Aland and

Kurt Aland Kurt Aland (28 March 1915 – 13 April 1994) was a German theologian and biblical scholar who specialized in New Testament textual criticism. He founded the '' Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung'' (Institute for New Testament Textua ...

(eds), ''Novum Testamentum Graece'', 27th edition, (Stuttgart:

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, 2001), 60. NA27 considers it even more highly than other witnesses of this type. It provides an exclamation mark (!) for "papyri and uncial manuscripts of particular significance because of their age." The manuscript has evidence of the following

nomina sacra In Christian scribal practice, nomina sacra (singular: ''nomen sacrum'' from Latin ''sacred name'') is the abbreviation of several frequently occurring divine names or titles, especially in Greek manuscripts of the Bible. A nomen sacrum consists ...

: , , , , . Rom. 5:1: εχομεν: א¹ B² F G P Ψ 0220^vid. 104. 365. 1241. 1505. 1506. 1739^c. 1881. 2464. l 846 pm vg^mss εχωμεν: א* A B* C D K L 33. 81. 630. 1175. 1739* pm lat bo; Mcion^T

History

Currently it is dated by the

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to the 3rd

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. It was purchased in Cairo in 1950 by Leland C. Wyman, a professor of biology at

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. Later part of it was bought by Martin Schøyen and now part of it is housed in the Martin Schøyen Collection in Oslo, and part in London. In 2012 this text was purchased at a Sotheby's auction by the Green Collection. It will be on the display at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.

The text was published by William Hatch (theologian), William Hatch in the ''Harvard Theological Review'' in 1952.

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The Schøyen Collection

- makes mention of the fragment as part of a group of manuscripts to be auctioned at Sotheby's in London in July 2012 by collector Martin Shoyen.

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