Uncial 0101 (in the
Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 48 (
Soden), is a
Greek
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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 ...
. It is dated
palaeographically to the 8th-century.
[ ] Formerly it was labelled by T
V.
[ ] The manuscript has survived in very fragmentary condition.
Description
The codex contains a small part of the
Gospel of John
The Gospel of John () is the fourth of the New Testament's four canonical Gospels. It contains a highly schematic account of the ministry of Jesus, with seven "Book of Signs, signs" culminating in the raising of Lazarus (foreshadowing the ...
1:29-32, on one very small parchment leaf (). The text is written in one column per page, 14 lines per page, in uncial letters.
[
The ]nomina sacra
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are written in an abbreviated forms.
Text
The Greek text of this codex
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is a representative of 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 ...
. Aland placed it in Category II.[
]
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 8th-century.
The codex currently is located at the Austrian National Library
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(Pap. G. 39780), at Vienna
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.[
]Karl Wessely
Karl Wessely (''Carl Wessely''; 27 June 1860, Vienna – 21 November 1931) was an Austrian palaeographer and papyrus scholar. He examined manuscripts housed at the Austrian National Library (e.g. Papyrus 3, Uncial 058
Uncial 058 (in the Gregor ...
published its text (facsimile).[ It was examined by ]C. R. Gregory
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* Letter C, the third letter in the alphabet.
* Cent (currency), abbreviated ''c.'' or ''¢'', a monetary unit that equals of the basic unit of man ...
(1887) and David C. Parker (2007). In 2008 it was edited by Stanley E. Porter and Wendy J. Porter (facsimile with transcription).[LDAB]
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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 ...
* 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
Further reading
* K. Wessely, "Papyrus Erzherzog Rainer. Führer durch die Ausstellung", Wien 1894, p. 129.
* U. B. Schmid, D. C. Parker, W. J. Elliott
''The Gospel according to St. John: The majuscules''
(Brill 2007), pp. 115-116. ext of the codex in the Gospel of John
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Greek New Testament uncials
8th-century biblical manuscripts
Biblical manuscripts in the Austrian National Library