Uncial 0120 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 1005 ( Soden), is a

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of the

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, dated palaeographically to the 9th-century. Vaya lokosñ

Description

The codex contains a small parts of the

Acts of the Apostles The Acts of the Apostles (, ''Práxeis Apostólōn''; ) is the fifth book of the New Testament; it tells of the founding of the Christian Church and the spread of The gospel, its message to the Roman Empire. Acts and the Gospel of Luke make u ...

16:30-17:17; 17:27-29,31-34; 18:8-26, on six parchment leaves (). The text is written in one column per page, 21 lines per page, in uncial letters. The letters are leaned into right. It has breathings and accents; errors of

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occurs (υ and ι, η and ει, ο and ω, αι and ε). It contains the (''titles'') at the top of the pages. It is a

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, the upper text is a menaeon (see Uncial 094, Uncial 0133). The Greek text of this

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is a mixture of the

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s. Aland placed it in Category III.

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 9th-century. Five leaves of this codex were published by Giuseppe Cozza in 1877 at Rome, the 6th leaf was published by

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in 1909 at Leipzig.C. R. Gregory, ''Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes'', (Leipzig, 1909), vol. III, pp. 1078–1079. The codex now is located in the

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(Gr. 2302) in Rome.

References

External links

* R. Waltz
Uncial 0120
at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism {{DEFAULTSORT:Uncial 0120 Greek New Testament uncials Palimpsests 9th-century biblical manuscripts Manuscripts in the Vatican Library

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