Uncial 0185 (in the
Gregory-Aland numbering), is a
Greek
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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 ...
manuscript
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of the
New Testament
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, dated
palaeographically to the 4th-century.
Description
The codex contains a small parts of the
First Epistle to the Corinthians 2:5-6,9,13; 3:2-3, on one parchment leaf (19 cm by 15 cm). This leaf has survived in a fragmentary condition. The text is written in two columns per page, 24 lines per page, in uncial letters.
The Greek text of this
codex is a representative of the
Alexandrian text-type.
Aland placed it in
Category II.
It was written and found in Egypt.
[MPER N.S. 29 49]
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Currently it is dated by the
INTF to the 4th-century.
published its transcription.
The codex currently is housed at the
Papyrus Collection of the Austrian National Library
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(Pap. G. 39787) in
Vienna
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See also
*
List of New Testament uncials
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Textual criticism
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References
Further reading
* Walter Till
''Papyrussammlung der Nationalbibliothek in Wien: Katalog der koptischen Bibelstücke. Die Pergamente'' ZNW 39 (1940), pp. 1–57.
* {{Cite book , title = New Testament Greek Papyri and Parchments , author = Stanley E. Porter & Wendy J. Porter , publisher = Walter de Gruyter , location = Berlin - New York , year = 2008 , pages = 209–211 , isbn = 978-3-11-020308-0
4th-century biblical manuscripts
Greek New Testament uncials
Biblical manuscripts of the Austrian National Library