Uncial 0174 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a

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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 ...

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of the

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, dated paleographically to the 5th century.

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The codex contains a very small part of the

Epistle to the Galatians The Epistle to the Galatians is the ninth book of the New Testament. It is a letter from Paul the Apostle to a number of Early Christian communities in Galatia. Scholars have suggested that this is either the Galatia (Roman province), Roman pro ...

2:5-6, on fragment of one parchment leaf (6 cm by 2.3 cm). The text is written in one column per page, 6 lines per page, in uncial letters. Verso side of a fragment is blank. 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 5th century. The Greek text of this

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is unknown. Text is too brief to classify. Aland did not placed it in any of

Categories of New Testament manuscripts New Testament manuscripts in Greek can be categorized into five theoretical groups, according to a schema introduced in 1981 by Kurt and Barbara Aland in ''The Text of the New Testament''. The categories are based on how each manuscript relat ...

. It was written in Egypt. It was found in

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. The codex currently is housed at the

Laurentian Library The Laurentian Library (Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana or BML) is a historic library in Florence, Italy, containing more than 11,000 manuscripts and 4,500 early printed books. Built in a cloister of the Medicean Basilica di San Lorenzo di Firenze u ...

(PSI 118) in

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. The text of this fragment was published by

Ermenegildo Pistelli Ermenegildo Pistelli (February 18, 1862Inscription on a plaquevisible on Commons placed at his birthplace in Camaiore. – January 14, 1927) was an Italian papyrologist, palaeographer, philologist and presbyter. Biography Born in Camaiore in 1862 ...

in 1913.PSI 2 118 (Pistelli, Ermenegildo)

LDAB The Leuven Database of Ancient Books (LDAB) is a resource for all ancient written literary manuscripts, from 500 BC to AD 800. It currently lists more than 16.000 Greek, Latin, Coptic, Syriac and Demotic literary texts. It is said that it "attempt ...

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Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
{{DEFAULTSORT:Uncial 0174 Greek New Testament uncials 5th-century biblical manuscripts

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