Uncial 0207 (in the
Gregory-Aland numbering), is a
Greek
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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
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of the
New Testament
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, dated
paleographically to the 4th-century.
Description
The codex contains a small parts of the
Book of Revelation
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9:2-15, on one parchment leaf (19 cm by 15 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 29 lines per page, in a small uncial letters.
[ ]
The leaf is paginated (no 478).
The text-type of this
codex is a representative of the
Alexandrian text-type with numerous alien readings.
Aland placed it in
Category III.
[
Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 4th century.]Ernst von Dobschütz
Ernst Adolf Alfred Oskar Adalbert von Dobschütz (9 October 1870 – 20 May 1934) was a German theologian, textual critic, author of numerous books and professor at the University of Halle, the University of Breslau, and the University of Strasbou ...
in 1933.[ ]
The manuscript was found in Egypt. Mario Naldini published its facsimile.[Codex 0207 (GA)]
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The codex currently is housed at the Laurentian Library (PSI 1166) in Florence
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.
See also
* List of New Testament uncials
* Textual criticism
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References
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Further reading
* M.-J. Lagrange, ''Critique textuelle'' II, ''La Critique rationelle'' (Paris, 1915), pp. 585-586.
* J. Schmid, ''Der Apokalypsetext des Kodex 0207 (Papiri della Societa Italiana 1166)'', BZ 23 (1935/1936), pp. 187-189.
* G. Vitelli and G. Mercati, Publicazioni della Societa Italiana 10, pp. 112-120.
External links
GA 0207
at the CSNTM
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PSI 1166
BML
PSI X 1166
Papiri Leterari della Biblioteca Laurenziana
4th-century biblical manuscripts
Uncial 0207