Uncial 080 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 20 ( Soden), is a Greek

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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 ...

, dated paleographically to the 6th century.

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The codex contains a small part of the

Gospel of Mark The Gospel of Mark is the second of the four canonical Gospels and one of the three synoptic Gospels, synoptic Gospels. It tells of the ministry of Jesus from baptism of Jesus, his baptism by John the Baptist to his death, the Burial of Jesus, ...

9:14-18.20-22; 10:23-24.29, on two purple parchment leaves. Size of the leaves is unknown because of their fragmentary condition. It is written in two columns per page, 18 lines per page, in large uncial letters, in gold. The uncial letters are similar to the

Codex Petropolitanus Purpureus The Codex Petropolitanus Purpureus ("Tyrian purple, Purple Codex of Saint Petersburg"), designated by N or 022 (in the Biblical manuscript#Gregory-Aland, Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), ε19 (in the Biblical manuscript#Von ...

. 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.

Porphyrius Uspensky Bishop Porphyrius (; secular name: Konstantin Aleksandrovich Uspensky; ; 8 September 1804 – 19 April 1885) was a Russian traveller, theologian, orientalist, archaeologist and byzantinologist, founder of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in ...

saw this codex in 1850 and described it.П. Успенский, ''Путешествие по Египту и в монастыри Святого Антония Великого и Преподобного Павла Фивейского, в 1850 году''. Saint Petersburg, 1856, p. 77.

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made another description of the codex. One leaf of the codex is located now at the

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(Gr. 275, 3) in

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, and one leaf in

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( Greek Orthodox Patriarchate 496). The Greek text of this

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is too brief to certainly classify its text-type.

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 ...

did not place it to any Category of New Testament manuscripts.

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