Codex 0205 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering). It is a diglot Greek-Coptic (Sahidic)

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

Epistle to Titus The Epistle to Titus is one of the three pastoral epistles (along with 1 Timothy and 2 Timothy) in the New Testament, historically attributed to Paul the Apostle. It is addressed to Saint Titus and describes the requirements and duties of elders ...

and the

Epistle to Philemon The Epistle to Philemon is one of the books of the Christian New Testament. It is a prison letter, co-authored by Paul the Apostle with Timothy, to Philemon, a leader in the Colossian church. It deals with the themes of forgiveness and recon ...

, dated paleographically to the 8th century (J. M. Plumley proposed 7th or 6th-century).

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The uncial 0205 was possibly a complete codex of the

Pauline epistles The Pauline epistles, also known as Epistles of Paul or Letters of Paul, are the thirteen books of the New Testament attributed to Paul the Apostle, although the authorship of some is in dispute. Among these epistles are some of the earliest ex ...

, of which only 2 leaves survived (32 cm by 22.5 cm). Each page contains two parallel columns with 35 lines, and 12-13 letters per line. The codex is written in Greek and Coptic, but it is not a genuine diglot manuscript. On the first page, the first column and the first seven lines of the second column contains Titus 2:15b-3:7 in Greek. At this point the Coptic text begins with Titus 2:11 and continues to the end of Philemon. The Greek represents only 15% of the text of the manuscript. The Greek text of this

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is a representative of the

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. Aland placed it in Category II. Currently it is dated by the

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to the 8th century. It was found in

White Monastery The Coptic White Monastery (), also The Monastery of Abba Shenouda () and The Athribian Monastery () is a Coptic Orthodox monastery named after Saint Shenouda the Archimandrite. It is located near the Upper Egyptian cities of Tahta and Sohag, a ...

. The manuscript was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by Ernst von Dobschütz in 1933. J. K. Elliott from

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published description of its text and facsimile.J. K. Elliott, ''A. Greek – Coptic (Sahidic) fragment of Titus - Philemon (0205)'', Novum Testamentum XXXVI, 2 (1994), pp. 183-195. The codex is located in the

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(Or. 1699 II x).

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