Uncial 0169 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), known also as the ''Princeton fragment'', 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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, dated palaeographically to the 4th century.

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The codex contains a small parts of the

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3:19-4:3, on an almost complete parchment leaf (9.3 cm by 7.7 cm). It is written in one column per page, 14 lines per page, in small uncial letters. The hand of the codex is a fair-sized upright uncial, fairly regular.Bruce M. Metzger, ''Manuscripts of the Greek Bible. An Introduction to Greek Paleography'', ''

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'', New York - Oxford 1991, p. 72. The letter sigma was formed with two strokes of the pen, and epsilon with three strokes; the letters kappa and

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have serifs. The two pages are numbered in the outside upper corner 33 and 34. The

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are written in abbreviated forms, but some of the usual contractions are written in length forms (e.g. ουρανω).B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, ''Oxyrhynchus Papyri'' VIII (London 1911), p. 15.

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The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category III. According to R. H. Charles the text is "much more closely with

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than with any other uncial". The text seems to be inaccurately copied. Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 4th century. The text was edited in 1911 by Grenfell and Hunt. B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt
''Oxyrhynchus Papyri'' VIII
(London 1911), pp. 14–16. The codex currently is housed at the

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(Speer Library, Pap. 5) in

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