Uncial 0320 (in the
Gregory-Aland numbering), is a diglot
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all kno ...
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Latin
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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 ...
on parchment.
Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 10th-century. Formerly it was designated by D
abs2. The manuscript is very lacunose.
It is particularly notable as one of the two such copies which display clear evidence of having had
Claromontanus as exemplar.
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. 109.
Description
The codex contains a small texts of the
Epistle to the Ephesians
The Epistle to the Ephesians is the tenth book of the New Testament.
Traditionally believed to have been written by the Paul the Apostle, Apostle Paul around AD 62 during his imprisonment in Rome, the Epistle to the Ephesians closely rese ...
1:3–9; 2:11–18, on six parchment leaves of size . The text is written in one column per page, 42 lines per page.
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the
Western text-type
In textual criticism of the New Testament, the Western text-type is one of the main text types. It is the predominant form of the New Testament text witnessed in the Old Latin and Syriac translations from the Greek, and also in quotations from ...
.
Kurt Aland
Kurt Aland (28 March 1915 – 13 April 1994) was a German theologian and Biblical studies, biblical scholar who specialized in New Testament textual criticism. He founded the ''Institute for New Testament Textual Research, Institut für neutest ...
placed it in
Category III (Aland's Profile 139
1 30
1/2 44
2 35
S).
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History
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 10th-century.[
It is currently housed at the Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (Best. 147 Hr. 2 Nr. 2, 6 fol.).][
]
See also
* List of New Testament uncials
A New Testament uncial is a section of the New Testament in Greek or Latin majuscule letters, written on parchment or vellum. This style of writing is called ''Biblical Uncial'' or ''Biblical Majuscule''.
New Testament uncials are distinct fr ...
* Biblical manuscript
A biblical manuscript is any handwritten copy of a portion of the text of the Bible. Biblical manuscripts vary in size from tiny scrolls containing individual verses of the Jewish scriptures (see '' Tefillin'') to huge polyglot codices (multi- ...
* Textual criticism
Textual criticism is a branch of textual scholarship, philology, and literary criticism that is concerned with the identification of textual variants, or different versions, of either manuscripts (mss) or of printed books. Such texts may rang ...
References
External links
"Continuation of the Manuscript List"
Institute for New Testament Textual Research, University of Münster
The University of Münster (, until 2023 , WWU) is a public research university located in the city of Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany.
With more than 43,000 students and over 120 fields of study in 15 departments, it is Germany's ...
. Retrieved September 8, 2009
* Viktor Schultze
"Codex Waldeccensis (Dw Paul): unbekannte Fragmente einer Griechisch-Lateinischen Bibelhandschrift"
C.H. Becksche, 1904. facsimile of Uncial 0320* E. Nestle
''Zwei griechisch-lateinische Handschriften des Neuen Testaments''
ZNW, Giessen 1907, p. 239.
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Greek New Testament uncials
10th-century biblical manuscripts