Uncial 0225 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek

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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. The manuscript paleographically had been assigned to the 6th century. It contains a small parts of the

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(5:1-2,8-9,14-16,19-6:1,3-5; 8:16-24), on 3 parchment leaves (25 cm by 18 cm). Written in two columns per page, 21-27 lines per page. It is a

palimpsest In textual studies, a palimpsest () is a manuscript page, either from a scroll or a book, from which the text has been scraped or washed off in preparation for reuse in the form of another document. Parchment was made of lamb, calf, or kid ski ...

. Some leaves were added (without erasing text). The upper text is in Pehlevi. The Greek text of this

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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. 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 6th century. The manuscript was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by Kurt Aland in 1953. The codex currently is housed at the

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, in

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, with the shelf number Pap. G. 19802.

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