Uncial 0101 ε 48 (Soden), is a Greek

Greek language

Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...

 uncial manuscript

Manuscript

A manuscript or handwrite is written information that has been manually created by someone or some people, such as a hand-written letter, as opposed to being printed or reproduced some other way...

 of the New Testament

New Testament

The New Testament is the second major division of the Christian biblical canon, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....

. It is dated palaeographically

Palaeography

Palaeography, also spelt paleography is the study of ancient writing. Included in the discipline is the practice of deciphering, reading, and dating historical manuscripts, and the cultural context of writing, including the methods with which writing and books were produced, and the history of...

 to the 8th century. Formerly it was labelled by T^V. The manuscript has survived in very fragmentary condition.

Description

The codex contains a small part of the Gospel of John

Gospel of John

The Gospel According to John , commonly referred to as the Gospel of John or simply John, and often referred to in New Testament scholarship as the Fourth Gospel, is an account of the public ministry of Jesus...

 1:29-32, on one very small parchment leaf . The text is written in one column per page, 14 lines per page, in uncial letters.

The nomina sacra

Nomina sacra

Nomina sacra means "sacred names" in Latin, and can be used to refer to traditions of abbreviated writing of several frequently occurring divine names or titles in early Greek language Holy Scripture...

 are written in an abbreviated forms.

Text

recto ΤΗΕΠ[αυρι]ΟΝΒΛΕ ΠΕΙΤΟΝΙΝΕΡΧΟ ΜΕΝΟΝΠΡΟΣΑΥΤΟ ΚΑΙΛΕΓΕΙ ΔΕΟΑΜΝΟΣΤΟΥΘΥ ΕΝΤ[ωυδατ]ΙΒΑΠΤΙΖΩ ΟΑΙΡΩΝΤΠΝΑΜΑΡ

verso ΚΑΓΩ[ουκ η]ΔΕΙΝΑΥ ΤΟΝΑΛΛΙΝΑΦΑΝΕ ΡΩΘΗΤΩΙΣΛΔΙΑ ΤΟΥΤΟΗΛΘΟΝΕΓΩ     ΚΑΙ[εμαρ]ΤΥΡΗΣΕ

recto ΤΙΑΝΤΟΥΚΟΣΜΟΥ ΟΥΤΟΣΕΣΤΙΝΠΕ ΡΙΟΥΕΓΩΕΙΠΟΝ ΟΠ

verso ΙΩΑΝΝΗΣΛΕΓΩΝ ΟΤΙΤΕΘΕΑΜΑΙΤΟΠΝΑ ΚΑΤΑΒΑΟΝΟΝΩΣΕΙ ΠΕΡ[ιστεραν.....] [.....]Ν

The Greek text of this codex

Codex

A codex is a book in the format used for modern books, with multiple quires or gatherings typically bound together and given a cover.Developed by the Romans from wooden writing tablets, its gradual replacement...

 is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type

Alexandrian text-type

The Alexandrian text-type , associated with Alexandria, is one of several text-types used in New Testament textual criticism to describe and group the textual character of biblical manuscripts...

. Aland

Kurt Aland

Kurt Aland was a German Theologian and Professor of New Testament Research and Church History. He founded the Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung in Münster and served as its first director for many years...

 placed it in Category II.

History

Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 8th century.

The manuscript was examined by Karl Wessely

Karl Wessely

Karl Wessely was an Austrian palaeographer and papyrus scholar. He examined manuscripts housed at the Austrian National Library and in other important European libraries .- Works :* , Wiener Studien 4 , 198-214.* * * Papyrus Erzherzog Rainer...

.

The codex currently is located at the Austrian National Library

Austrian National Library

The Austrian National Library , is the largest library in Austria, with 7.4 million items in its collections. It is located in the Hofburg Palace in Vienna; since 2005 some of the collections are located in the baroque Palais Mollard-Clary...

 (Pap. G. 39780), at Vienna

Vienna

Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

. It was examined by Karl Wessely.

Further reading

• K. Wessely, "Papyrus Erzherzog Rainer. Führer durch die Ausstellung", Wien 1894, p. 129.
• U. B. Schmid, D. C. Parker
  David C. Parker
  David C. Parker is the Edward Cadbury Professor of Theology and the Director of the Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing at the Department of Theology and Religion, University of Birmingham. His interests include New Testament textual criticism and Greek and Latin...
  
  , W. J. Elliott, The Gospel according to St. John: The majuscules (Brill 2007), pp. 115-116. [text of the codex in the Gospel of John]