Uncial 0295 (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 The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and is one ...

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of the

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. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 9th century.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. 44.

Description

The codex contains a part of the text of the

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12:14-13:1, on 3 paper leaf (). The text is written in two columns per page, 14 lines per page, in uncial letters. Currently it is dated by the

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to the 9th century.

Location

It is one of the manuscripts discovered in the

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

Codex Sinaiticus The Codex Sinaiticus (Shelfmark: London, British Library, Add MS 43725), designated by siglum [Aleph] or 01 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), δ 2 (in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts) ...

, 0278, 0279, 0280, 0281, 0282, 0283, 0284, 0285, 0286, 0287, 0288, 0289, 0290, 0291, 0292, 0293, 0294, 0296. Currently the codex is housed at the St. Catherine's Monastery (N.E. ΜΓ 16, 27, 30, 42, 43, 47, 49) in

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