Uncial 0284 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a

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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 ...

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of the

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. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 8th century.

Description

The codex contains a small parts of the

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26:75-27:7; 27:9-11.13-17; 28:15-18.20, on 2 parchment leaves (). The text is written in two columns per page, 29 lines per page, in uncial letters. The leaves have survived in a fragmentary condition. It is a

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.K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, “Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments”,

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, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 43. The upper text contains '' Scala paradisi'' of

Johannes Climacus John Climacus ( grc-gre, Ἰωάννης τῆς Κλίμακος; la, Ioannes Climacus), also known as John of the Ladder, John Scholasticus and John Sinaites, was a 6th–7th-century Christian monk at the monastery on Mount Sinai. He is reve ...

. Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 8th century.

Location

It is one of the manuscripts discovered in

Saint Catherine's Monastery Saint Catherine's Monastery ( ar, دير القدّيسة كاترين; grc-gre, Μονὴ τῆς Ἁγίας Αἰκατερίνης), officially the Sacred Autonomous Royal Monastery of Saint Katherine of the Holy and God-Trodden Mount Sinai, ...

at Sinai in May 1975, during the restoration work.Together with other uncials: 12 leaves from

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, 0278, 0279, 0280, 0281, 0282, 0283, 0285, 0286, 0287, 0288, 0289, 0290, 0291, 0292, 0293, 0294, 0295, 0296. Currently the codex is housed at the St. Catherine's Monastery (N.E. ΜΓ 48) in

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