| New Testament manuscript | |
| Text | 1 Cor 15:53-16:9; Tit 1:1-13 |
|---|---|
| Date | 5th/6th century |
| Script | Greek |
| Now at | Russian National Library |
| Size | 23.5 x 20 cm |
| Type | Alexandrian text-type |
| Category | II |
Uncial 088 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 1021 (Soden),[1] is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated paleographically to the 5th or 6th century.[2]
Description
To the present day survived only two parchment leaves of this codex (23.5 cm by 20 cm).[2] The leaves are arranged in quarto in quire. They contain a small parts of the 1 Corinthians 15:53-16:9, and the Titus 1:1-13. The text is written in two columns per page, 24 lines per page, in very large uncial letters.[3]
It is a palimpsest, the upper text is in Georgian from 10th century.[2][3]
Text
The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type with some alien readings. Aland placed it in Category II.[2]
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);[4]
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, 1739;[4]
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);[4]
History
Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 5th or 6th century.[2][5]
The text of the manuscript was edited by Constantin von Tischendorf.[6] It was examined and described by Kurt Treu.
The codex currently is located at the Russian National Library (Gr. 6, II, fol. 5-6) at Saint Petersburg.[2]
See also
References
- ↑ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 39.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 120. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
- 1 2 Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 116.
- 1 2 3 NA26, p. 470.
- ↑ "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 21 April 2011.
- ↑ Constantin von Tischendorf, Monumenta sacra inedita I, pp. 45-48.
Further reading
- Constantin von Tischendorf, Monumenta sacra inedita I, pp. XII-XIX, 45-48.
- 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. 20-21.