Uncial 0233 (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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. The manuscript paleographically had been assigned to the 8th-century.

Description

It contains a text of the four

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s, on 93 parchment leaves (27 by 21 cm), with some lacunae. The text is written in two columns per page, 23-27 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 ...

, the upper text was written in a

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hand, it is a Lectionary 1684. In result the manuscript has two texts of the New Testament, and it is classified on two different lists: on the list of uncials and on the list of lectionaries.

Text

The Greek text of the

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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 ...

heavily interpolated by the Byzantine readings.

Kurt Aland Kurt Aland (28 March 1915 – 13 April 1994) was a German theologian and Biblical studies, biblical scholar who specialized in New Testament textual criticism. He founded the ''Institute for New Testament Textual Research, Institut für neutest ...

placed it in Category III (with the profile of 47¹, 23², 3^1/2, 5^s). ; Textual variants (The words before the bracket are of UBS edition, the words after the bracket are the readings of the codex). : Matthew 2:21 – εισηλθεν ] ηλθεν (''went'') — Codex Bezae, D, L, W, 0250, ''f''¹, ''f''¹³, ℳ : Matthew 6:13 – it contains doxology : Matthew 11:2 – Χριστου ] Ιησου (supported by

Codex Bezae The Codex Bezae Cantabrigiensis is a bi-lingual Greek and Latin manuscript of the New Testament written in an uncial hand on parchment. It is designated by the siglum D or 05 in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts, and � ...

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, ℓ ''241'', and other)

History

It is dated by the

Institute for New Testament Textual Research 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 manusc ...

to the 8th-century. The manuscript was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by Kurt Aland in 1954. The codex used to be housed at the

Bible Museum Münster Bible Museum Münster is a museum located in Münster, Germany, telling the story of the Bible from its handwritten beginnings until today. The main focus lies on the tradition of Greek New Testament as well as the German Bible. The museum forms ...

(MS. 1), in the

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at the Wieland Willker, "Textual Commentary" {{DEFAULTSORT:Uncial 0233 Greek New Testament uncials 8th-century biblical manuscripts Palimpsests

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