Uncial 085
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Uncial 085 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 23 (Soden), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated palaeographically to the 6th century.[1]
Description
The codex contains two small parts of the Gospel of Matthew 20:3-32; 22:3-16 on 3 parchment leaves (24 cm by 21 cm). Written in two columns per page, 27 lines per page (size of text 17 by 13.5 cm).[1][2]
The letters are similar to Coptic. The pages are numbered in the same way as Coptic manuscripts.[2]
Text
The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type with some alien readings. According to some authorities the text has mixed character. Kurt Aland placed it in Category II.[1]
Matthew 20:23
- phrase και το βαπτισμα ο εγω βαπτιζομαι βαπτισθησεσθε (and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with) omitted, as in codices Sinaiticus, B, D, L, Z, Θ, f1, f13, it, syrs, c, copsa.[3]
History
It is dated by the Institute for New Testament Textual Research to the 6th century.[1][4] The manuscript was written in a Coptic monastery.[2]
The codex used to be in Cairo. It is now located at the Russian National Library (Gr. 714) in Saint Petersburg.[1]
See also
References
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Further reading
- Kurt Treu, Die Griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments in der USSR; eine systematische Auswertung des Texthandschriften in Leningrad, Moskau, Kiev, Odessa, Tbilisi und Erevan, T & U 91 (Berlin: 1966), pp. 192–193.
External links
- Uncial 085 at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism
- Uncial 085 at the Wieland Willker, "Textual Commentary"