Uncial 099 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 47 ( Soden); 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

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 ...

, assigned paleographically to the 7th-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, ...

16:6-8; shorter ending; 16:9-18, on one thick parchment leaf (32 by 26 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 32 lines per page, in large uncial letters. It has two endings to the Gospel of Mark (as in codices Ψ 0112 274^mg 579 Lectionary 1602). The Greek text of this

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is mixed.

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. In Mark 16:14 it reads εγηγερμενον along with C³ D K L W Θ Π Ψ 099 700 1010 2174 Byz Lect.UBS3, p. 197. 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 7th-century. The codex is located now at the

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(Copt. 129,8), in Paris.

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