Uncial 091 in the
Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 30 (
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 6th-century.
[ ]
Description
The codex contains a small parts of the
Gospel of John
The Gospel of John ( grc, Εὐαγγέλιον κατὰ Ἰωάννην, translit=Euangélion katà Iōánnēn) is the fourth of the four canonical gospels. It contains a highly schematic account of the ministry of Jesus, with seven "sig ...
6:13-14.22-24, on one parchment leaf (32 cm by 28 cm).
[ The leaf survived in 3/4. The text is written in two columns per page, 23 lines per page, in large uncial letters. Letter ]iota
Iota (; uppercase: Ι, lowercase: ι; ) is the ninth letter of the Greek alphabet. It was derived from the Phoenician letter Yodh. Letters that arose from this letter include the Latin I and J, the Cyrillic І (І, і), Yi (Ї, ї), and ...
is written with diaeresis.[ C. R. Gregory, "Textkritik des Neuen Testaments", Leipzig 1900, vol. 1, p. 89.]
The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type with some alien readings. Aland placed it in Category II.[
In John 6:23 the reading (''the Lord had given thanks'') is omitted, as in codices D, a, d, e, syrc, syrs, arm, geo1.
Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 6th-century.]Russian National Library
The National Library of Russia (NLR, russian: Российская национальная библиотека}), located in Saint Petersburg, is the first, and one of three national public libraries in Russia. The NLR is currently ranked amo ...
(Gr. 279)[ Uncial 089 has a catalogue number Gr. 280 in the same library.] in Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
.[
]
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
* Caspar René Gregory, ''Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes'' III (Leipzig, 1909), p. 1063.
* U. B. Schmid, D. C. Parker, W. J. Elliott
''The Gospel according to St. John: The majuscules''
(Brill 2007), pp. 110–114. ext of the codex
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* Ext functor, used in the mathematical field of homological algebra
* Ext (JavaScript library), a programming library used to build interactive web applications
* Exeter Airport (IATA airport code), in Devon, Englan ...
External links
Uncial 091
at the Wieland Willker, "Textual Commentary"
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Greek New Testament uncials
6th-century biblical manuscripts
National Library of Russia collection