Uncial 059 (in the
Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 09 (
Soden), is a Greek
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
A manuscript (abbreviated MS for singular and MSS for plural) was, traditionally, any document written by hand – or, once practical typewriters became available, typewritten – as opposed to mechanically printed or reproduced in ...
of the
New Testament
The New Testament grc, Ἡ Καινὴ Διαθήκη, transl. ; la, Novum Testamentum. (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon. It discusses the teachings and person of Jesus, as well as events in first-century Chri ...
, dated
paleographically to the 4th or 5th century.
Description
The codex contains a part of the
Gospel of Mark (15:29-38), on 1 parchment leaf (). The text is written in one column per page, 19 lines per page.
[ ]
The leaf designated by 059 came from the same manuscript as
0215 (Mark 15:20-21,26-27).
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]
Text
The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category III.[
]
History
Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 4th or 5th century.Guglielmo Cavallo
Guglielmo Cavallo (born 18 August 1938 in Carovigno) is an Italian palaeographer, Emeritus Professor of the Sapienza University of Rome.
Life
Cavallo graduated from the University of Bari in 1961, with Carlo Ferdinando Russo; shortly after, he ...
, and Pasquale Orsini. Gregory added it to the list of New Testament manuscripts.Austrian National Library
The Austrian National Library (german: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek) is the largest library in Austria, with more than 12 million items in its various collections. The library is located in the Neue Burg Wing of the Hofburg in center of V ...
, in Vienna
en, Viennese
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. Leaf 059 has number of catalogue Pap. G. 39779, and leaf 0215 – Pap. G. 36112.[
]
See also
* List of New Testament uncials
* Textual criticism
Textual criticism is a branch of textual scholarship, philology, and of literary criticism that is concerned with the identification of textual variants, or different versions, of either manuscripts or of printed books. Such texts may range in da ...
References
Further reading
*
* Karl Wessely
''Griechische und koptische Texte theologischen inhalts''
''Studien zur Paläographie und Papyruskunde'', (Leipzig 1912
reprinted
(Amsterdam 1966), p. 243, no. 186.
* G. Cavallo, ''Ricerche sulla maiuscola biblica'' (1967), pl. 46b;
External links
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LDAB
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4th-century biblical manuscripts
Greek New Testament uncials
Biblical manuscripts of the Austrian National Library