Uncial 0177 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a

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- Coptic

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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 ...

, dated paleographically to the 10th-century.

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The codex contains a small part of the

Gospel of Luke The Gospel of Luke is the third of the New Testament's four canonical Gospels. It tells of the origins, Nativity of Jesus, birth, Ministry of Jesus, ministry, Crucifixion of Jesus, death, Resurrection of Jesus, resurrection, and Ascension of ...

1:73-2:7 (Greek) and Luke 1:59-73 (Coptic), on one parchment leaf (36 cm by 27.5 cm). It is written in two columns per page, 36 lines per page, in uncial letters. The parchment is ivory coloured. The

nomina sacra In Christian scribal practice, (singular: , Latin for 'sacred name') is the abbreviation of several frequently occurring divine names or titles, especially in Greek manuscripts of the Bible. A consists of two or more letters from the original w ...

are written in an abbreviated way.S. Porter, ''New Testament Greek Papyri and Parchments'', Vienna 2008, p. 118. The Greek text of this

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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 ...

. It contains many scribal peculiarities. Aland placed it in Category II. 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. The codex currently is housed at the

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(Pap. K. 2698) in

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* – digitized manuscript
Uncial 0177
at the Wieland Willker, "Textual Commentary" {{DEFAULTSORT:Uncial 0177 Greek New Testament uncials Greek-Coptic diglot manuscripts of the New Testament 10th-century biblical manuscripts Biblical manuscripts in the Austrian National Library

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