Uncial 085 (original) (raw)

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New Testament manuscript

Uncial 085

New Testament manuscript
Text Gospel of Matthew 20:3-32; 22:3-16
Date 6th century
Script Greek
Now at Russian National Library
Size 24 x 21 cm
Type Alexandrian text-type
Category II

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]

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]

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, _f_1, _f_13, it, syrs, c, copsa.[3]

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]

  1. ^ a b c d e 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.
  2. ^ a b c C. R. Gregory, "Textkritik des Neuen Testaments", Leipzig 1900, vol. 1, p. 68.
  3. ^ NA26, p. 56.
  4. ^ "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 21 April 2011.