Uncial 097 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 1003 ( Soden), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated palaeographically to the 7th-century.

Description

The codex contains a small part of the

Acts of the Apostles The Acts of the Apostles ( grc-koi, Πράξεις Ἀποστόλων, ''Práxeis Apostólōn''; la, Actūs Apostolōrum) is the fifth book of the New Testament; it tells of the founding of the Christian Church and the spread of its messag ...

13:39-46, on one parchment leaf (26 cm by 21 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 18 lines per page, in large uncial letters. It is a palimpsest, the upper text was written in Georgian, in the 10th century.

Text

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 mixed, but predominate the Byzantine element. Aland placed it with some hesitation in Category III (Category V?).

History

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 7th-century. The manuscript was examined by

Constantin von Tischendorf Lobegott Friedrich Constantin (von) Tischendorf (18 January 18157 December 1874) was a German biblical scholar. In 1844, he discovered the world's oldest and most complete Bible dated to around the mid-4th century and called Codex Sinaiticus a ...

, who published its text in facsimile edition. It was again examined by Kurt Treu. The codex is located now at the Russian National Library (Gr. 18)

Uncial 095 Uncial 095 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 1002 ( Soden), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated paleographically to the 8th-century. Description The codex contains a small part of the Acts of the Apostles 2:45-3:8, on ...

has catalogue number Gr. 17, and

Uncial 096 Uncial 096 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 1004 ( Soden), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated paleographically to the 7th-century. Description The codex contains a small part of the Acts of the Apostles 2:6-17; 26:7 ...

has catalogue number Gr. 19 in the same library. in Saint Petersburg.

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