Uncial 0267 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a

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of the

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. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 5th century.

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The codex contains a small part of the

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8:25-27, on 1 parchment leaf (7 cm by 9.5 cm). Probably it was written in one column per page, 10 lines per page, in uncial letters. Currently it is dated by the

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to the 5th century.

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The text of this

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is too brief to determine its textual character. Aland did not place it in any of

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. It was examined by Ramón Roca-Puig, who published its text in 1965.R. Roca-Puig, "Dos fragmentos biblicos de la colección Papyri Barcinonensis", ''Helmantica: Revista de filología clásica y hebrea'' 16 (Salamanca, 1965), pp. 139-144.

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Currently the codex is housed at the

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(P. Monts. Roca inv. 16) in

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. It was formerly held at the Fundación Sant Lluc Evangelista (Pap. Barcinonensis, inv. n. 16) in

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