Codex Tischendorfianus II – designated by Uncial 081 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering) α 1023 ( Soden), – is a Greek

uncial Uncial is a majuscule script (written entirely in capital letters) commonly used from the 4th to 8th centuries AD by Latin and Greek scribes. Uncial letters were used to write Greek and Latin, as well as Gothic, and are the current style for ...

manuscript A manuscript (abbreviated MS for singular and MSS for plural) was, traditionally, any document written by hand or typewritten, as opposed to mechanically printed or reproduced in some indirect or automated way. More recently, the term has ...

of the

New Testament The New Testament (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon. It discusses the teachings and person of Jesus in Christianity, Jesus, as well as events relating to Christianity in the 1st century, first-century Christianit ...

, dated paleographically to the 6th century.

Description

The codex contains a small part of the

Second Epistle to the Corinthians The Second Epistle to the Corinthians is a Pauline epistle of the New Testament of the Christian Bible. The epistle is attributed to Paul the Apostle and a co-author named Saint Timothy, Timothy, and is addressed to the church in Ancient Corin ...

1:20-2:12 on 2

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leaves ( by ). The text is written in two columns per page, 18 lines per page, in a large uncial letters.

C. R. Gregory C. or c. may refer to: * Century, sometimes abbreviated as ''c.'' or ''C.'', a period of 100 years * Letter C, the third letter in the alphabet. * Cent (currency), abbreviated ''c.'' or ''¢'', a monetary unit that equals of the basic unit of man ...

"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 nu ...

belonged. The Greek text of this

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was influenced by the

Alexandrian text-type In textual criticism of the New Testament, the Alexandrian text-type is one of the main text types. It is the text type favored by the majority of modern textual critics and it is the basis for most modern (after 1900) Bible translations. Over 5,8 ...

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 Constantin is an Aromanian language, Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian language, Megleno-Romanian and Romanian language, Romanian male given name. It can also be a surname. For a list of notable people called Constantin, see Constantine (name). See ...

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 Eduard de Muralt ( Bischofszell 1808–1895) was a Swiss-German professor of theology, librarian, and palaeographer. Born in Bischofszell, as son of Kaspar, a dealer, and of Elizabeth Sprüngli. Studies of theology in Zurich (finished in 1832), t ...

,E. de Muralt
''Catalogue des manuscrits grecs de la Bibliothèque Impériale publique''
(Petersburg 1864) by

Kurt Treu Kurt Treu (15 September 1928 in Karja, Saare County, Estonia – 6 June 1991 in Vienna, Austria), was a German classical philologist. He was born the son of a German parson on the island Saaremaa, the largest island of Estonia. In 1940, because of ...

and by Pasquale Orsini. Currently it is dated by the

INTF The Institute for New Testament Textual Research ( — INTF) at the University of Münster, Westphalia, Germany, is to research the textual history of the New Testament and to reconstruct its Greek initial text on the basis of the entire manuscri ...

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

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(Gr. 9) in

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