Uncial 075 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Οπ³ ( Soden), 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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, dated palaeographically to the 10th century. Formerly it was designated by ג. It was also classified as minuscule codex 382^p.

Description

The codex contains 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 ...

, on 333 parchment leaves, with lacunae (Romans; 1 Corinthians 1:1-15:28; Hebrews 11:38-13:25). The text is written in one column per page, 31 lines per page,K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, ''Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments'',

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, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 210. in

semi-uncial Uncial is a majuscule script (styles of handwriting), script (written entirely in capital letters) commonly used from the 4th to 8th centuries AD by Latin and Byzantine Empire, Greek scribes. Uncial letters were used to write Greek language, Gre ...

letters. The biblical text is surrounded by a commentary ( catena). Size 27 cm by 19 cm. The leaves 61-65, 366-369 were supplied by a later hand (in minuscule) in the 13th century. The Greek text of this

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is mostly

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with some Alexandrian readings. Aland placed it in Category III.

History

Currently it is dated by the

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to the 10th century. The manuscript was written by monk Sabbas. Formerly it was held in Kosinitza.

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saw the manuscript in 1886. The manuscript was classified by Gregory as minuscule 382. In 1908 Gregory gave

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075 to it. It is currently housed at the

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(Gr. 100, fol. 46-378), in

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Uncial 0075 Greek New Testament uncials 10th-century biblical manuscripts Manuscripts in the National Library of Greece

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History

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