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Uncial 0229 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament. The manuscript paleographically has been assigned to the 8th century. It is a palimpsest.
New Testament manuscript | |
Text | Revelation 18:16-17; 19:4-6 |
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Date | 8th-century |
Script | Greek |
Now at | Laurentian Library |
Size | 11 x 23 cm |
Type | mixed |
Category | III |
The manuscript contains a small part of the Book of Revelation (18:16-17; 19:4-6), on two parchment leaves (11 cm by 23 cm). The text is written in one column per page, 16 lines per page.[1]
It is a palimpsest, the lower text is Coptic.[1] It contains a calendar text with list of Egyptian months.[2]
The Greek text of this codex is mixed. Kurt Aland placed it in Category III.[1]
Guglielmo Cavallo dated the manuscript to the 7th or 8th century.[2] It is dated by the Institute for New Testament Textual Research to the 8th century.[1][3]
The manuscript was found in Antinoopolis (El-Sheikh Ibada) in Egypt. It was examined by Giovanni Mercati (1953) and Mario Naldini (1965). Mercati transcribed the text of the codex.[2]
The manuscript was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by Kurt Aland in 1953.[4]
The codex used to be housed at the Laurentian Library (PSI 1296b), in Florence.[1][3] According to the Liste, 0229 has been destroyed.[3]
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