Uncial 0240

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Uncial 0240
New Testament manuscript
TextTitus 1:4-8
Date5th century
ScriptGreek
Now atGeorgian National Center of Manuscripts
Size26 x 22 cm
TypeAlexandrian text-type
CategoryII

Uncial 0240 (in the

uncial manuscript of the New Testament. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 5th century.[1]

Description

The codex contains a small part of the Epistle to Titus 1:4-8, on one parchment leaf (26 cm by 22 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 23 lines per page, in uncial letters.[1]

It is a

menologion.[1]

Currently it is dated by the

INTF to the 5th century.[1][2]

The manuscript was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by Kurt Aland in 1956.[3]

It was examined by Pasquale Orsini.[4]

Text

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category II.[1]

Location

Currently[when?] the codex is housed at the Georgian National Center of Manuscripts (2123, ff. 191, 198) in Tbilisi.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ .
  2. ^ "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 25 April 2011.
  3. ^ Kurt Aland (1963). Kurzgefasste Liste der griechieschen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. p. 11.
  4. ^ P. Orsini, Manoscritti in maiuscola biblica, p. 291-292.

Further reading

  • Bruce M. Metzger, A Hitherto Neglected Early Fragment of the Epistle to Titus, Nov T 3 (Leiden, 1956), pp. 149-150.
  • G. Zereteli, Un palimpseste grec du Ve siècle sur parchemin (Epist. ad Fit. [sic] 1.4-6,7-9), Académie royale de Belgique: Bulletin de la classe des lettres Ve, sér. 18 (1932), pp. 427-432.
  • 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. 353-354.