Uncial 0114
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Uncial 0114 ε 53 (von 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;...

Coptic
Coptic language
Coptic or Coptic Egyptian is the current stage of the Egyptian language, a northern Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Egypt until at least the 17th century. Egyptian began to be written using the Greek alphabet in the 1st century...

 diglot uncial
Uncial
Uncial is a majuscule script commonly used from the 3rd to 8th centuries AD by Latin and Greek scribes. Uncial letters are written in either Greek, Latin, or Gothic.-Development:...

 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....

, 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.

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...

 20:4-6.8-10, on one very large parchment leaf. Size of page is rather unusual, it has about 39 cm by 30 cm. The text is written in two columns per page, 32 lines per page, in uncial letters. It was classified as uncial codex, but according to the opinions of present scholars it is a lectionary, and was classified on Aland's List of New Testament lectionaries as 965.

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, it means it has some alien readings.

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

The codex now is located at the Bibliothèque nationale de France
Bibliothèque nationale de France
The is the National Library of France, located in Paris. It is intended to be the repository of all that is published in France. The current president of the library is Bruno Racine.-History:...

, (Copt. 129,10, fol. 198) in Paris.

See also

  • List of New Testament uncials
  • List of New Testament lectionaries
  • Coptic versions of the Bible
    Coptic versions of the Bible
    There have been many Coptic versions of the Bible, including some of the earliest translations into any language. Several different versions were made in the ancient world, with different editions of the Old and New Testament in all four of the major dialects of Coptic: Bohairic , Fayyumic, Sahidic...

  • Textual criticism
    Textual criticism
    Textual criticism is a branch of literary criticism that is concerned with the identification and removal of transcription errors in the texts of manuscripts...

  • Uncial 0127
    Uncial 0127
    Uncial 0127 , ε 54 , is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated palaeographically to the 8th century.- Description :The codex contains a small part of the John 2:2-11, on one parchment leaf...

  • Uncial 0128
    Uncial 0128
    Uncial 0128 , ε 071 , is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated paleographically to the 9th century.- Description :...


Further reading

  • E. Amélineau
    Émile Amélineau
    Émile Amélineau was a French Coptologist, archaeologist and Egyptologist. His scholarly reputation was established as an editor of previously unpublished Coptic texts...

    , "Notice des manuscrits coptes de la Bibliothèque Nationale" (Paris: 1985), pp. 407–408.
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