Uncial 088 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 1021 ( Soden), is a Greek

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of the

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, dated paleographically to the 5th or 6th century.

Description

To the present day survived only two parchment leaves of this codex (23.5 cm by 20 cm). The leaves are arranged in quarto in quire. They contain a small parts of the

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15:53-16:9, and the

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1:1-13. The text is written in two columns per page, 24 lines per page, in very large uncial letters. It is a

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, the upper text is in Georgian from 10th century.

Text

The Greek text of this

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is a representative of the

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with some alien readings. Aland placed it in Category II. In 1 Corinthians 15:52 it reads εγερθησονται (as p46, Sinaiticus, B C Ψ 075 0121a 0243 Byz); other manuscripts read αναστησονται (as A D F G P);NA26, p. 470. In 1 Corinthians 15:53 it has singular reading την αθανασιαν for αθανασιαν; In 1 Corinthians 15:54 it lacks το φθαρτον τουτο ενδυσηται αφθαρσιαν και along with 0121a, 0243, 1175,

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; In 1 Corinthians 16:2 it has reading σαββατου (A, B, C, D, F, G, P, Ψ, 33) against σαββατων ( 075, 0121a, 0243, and Byzantine manuscripts);

History

Currently it is dated by the

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to the 5th or 6th century. The text of the manuscript was edited by

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.Constantin von Tischendorf
''Monumenta sacra inedita''
I, pp. 45-48. It was examined and described by

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. The codex currently is located at the

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(Gr. 6, II, fol. 5-6) at

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