Uncial 0288 (in the
Gregory-Aland numbering), is a
Greek uncial manuscript
A manuscript (abbreviated MS for singular and MSS for plural) was, traditionally, any document written by hand or typewritten, as opposed to mechanically printed or reproduced in some indirect or automated way. More recently, the term has ...
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 ...
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Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 9th century.
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Description
The codex contains a small parts of the text of the Gospel of Luke 5:33-34.36-37; 5:39-6:1.3-4, on 2 parchment leaves (). The text is written in two columns per page, 27 lines per page, in uncial letters. The leaves have survived in a fragmentary condition.[K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, “Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments”, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 43.]
It is a palimpsest, the upper text is in Greek written by minuscule hand, it contains part of the Old Testament
The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally Aramaic writings by the Isr ...
.[
Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 9th century.]
Location
It is one of the manuscripts discovered in Saint Catherine's Monastery at Sinai in May 1975, during the restoration work.[Together with other uncials: 12 leaves from Codex Sinaiticus, 0278, 0279, 0280, 0281, 0282, 0283, 0284, 0285, 0286, 0287, 0289, 0290, 0291, 0292, 0293, 0294, 0295, 0296.]
Currently the codex is housed at the St. Catherine's Monastery (N.E. ΜΓ 98) in Sinai.[
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See also
* List of New Testament uncials
A New Testament uncial is a section of the New Testament in Greek or Latin majuscule letters, written on parchment or vellum. This style of writing is called ''Biblical Uncial'' or ''Biblical Majuscule''.
New Testament uncials are distinct fr ...
* Biblical manuscript
* Textual criticism
Textual criticism is a branch of textual scholarship, philology, and literary criticism that is concerned with the identification of textual variants, or different versions, of either manuscripts (mss) or of printed books. Such texts may rang ...
References
Further reading
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Greek New Testament uncials
9th-century biblical manuscripts
Septuagint manuscripts
Palimpsests