Codex Tischendorfianus II – designated by Uncial 081 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering) α 1023 ( Soden), – is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated paleographically to the 6th century.

Description

The codex contains a small part of the

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1:20-2:12 on 2 parchment leaves ( by ). The text is written in two columns per page, 18 lines per page, in a large uncial letters.

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"Textkritik des Neuen Testaments"
Leipzig 1900, vol. 1, p. 118 It is elegantly written, without breathings and accents. It uses diaeresis (Ϊ and Ϋ). This manuscript was a part of the same codex to which

Uncial 0285 Uncial 0285 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 6th century. Description The codex contains the text of the Pauline epistles and 1 Peter with num ...

belonged. The Greek text of this

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was influenced by the

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with some alien readings. Aland placed it in Category II. In 2 Corinthians 2:2 it contains reading και τις εστιν (as א² D F G Ψ) for και τις (as א* A B C 81).

History

Biblical scholar

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 ...

brought this codex from the East to Petersburg in 1859. Tischendorf briefly described it in ''Notitia editionis codicis Bibliorum Sinaitici'' (Leipzig, 1860). It was examined by Eduard de Muralt,E. de Muralt
''Catalogue des manuscrits grecs de la Bibliothèque Impériale publique''
(Petersburg 1864) by Kurt Treu and by

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. Currently it is dated by the

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to the 6th century. The codex is now located at the

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(Gr. 9) in Saint Petersburg.

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