Codex 0205 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering). It is a diglot Greek-Coptic (Sahidic)

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of the

Epistle to Titus The Epistle to Titus is one of the three pastoral epistles (along with 1 Timothy and 2 Timothy) in the New Testament, historically attributed to Paul the Apostle. It is addressed to Saint Titus and describes the requirements and duties of p ...

and the

Epistle to Philemon The Epistle to Philemon is one of the books of the Christianity, Christian New Testament. It is a Prison literature, prison letter, authored by Paul the Apostle (the opening verse also mentions Saint Timothy, Timothy), to Saint Philemon, Philem ...

, dated paleographically to the 8th century (J. M. Plumley proposed 7th or 6th-century).

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The uncial 0205 was possibly a complete codex of the

Pauline epistles The Pauline epistles, also known as Epistles of Paul or Letters of Paul, are the thirteen books of the New Testament attributed to Paul the Apostle, although the authorship of some is in dispute. Among these epistles are some of the earliest ext ...

, of which only 2 leaves survived (32 cm by 22.5 cm). Each page contains two parallel columns with 35 lines, and 12-13 letters per line. The codex is written in Greek and Coptic, but it is not a genuine diglot manuscript. On the first page, the first column and the first seven lines of the second column contains Titus 2:15b-3:7 in Greek. At this point the Coptic text begins with Titus 2:11 and continues to the end of Philemon. The Greek represents only 15% of the text of the manuscript. The Greek text of this

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is a representative of the

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. Aland placed it in Category II. Currently it is dated by the

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to the 8th century. It was found in

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. The manuscript was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by

Ernst von Dobschütz Ernst Adolf Alfred Oskar Adalbert von Dobschütz (9 October 1870 – 20 May 1934) was a German theologian, textual critic, author of numerous books and professor at the University of Halle, the University of Breslau, and the University of Strasb ...

in 1933. J. K. Elliott from

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published description of its text and facsimile.J. K. Elliott, ''A. Greek – Coptic (Sahidic) fragment of Titus - Philemon (0205)'', Novum Testamentum XXXVI, 2 (1994), pp. 183-195. The codex is located in the

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(Or. 1699 II x).

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