Codex Athous Pantelejmon, designated by 052 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), and known as Uncial 052, is a Greek 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 paleographically to the 10th century.

Description

The codex contains incomplete text of Revelation of John (7:16-8:12), with a commentary of Andreas's

Andreas of Caesarea

Andreas of Caesarea was a Greek theological writer and bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia. Krumbacher assigned him to the first half of the sixth century. He is variously placed by other scholars, from the fifth to the ninth century.-Works:...

 (see Uncial 051

Uncial 051

Uncial 051 , is a Greek uncial manuscript of the Book of Revelation, dated paleographically to the 10th century.- Description :...

), on 4 parchment leaves (29.5 by 23 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 27 lines per page.

The text is divided according to the (chapters), whose numbers are given at the marginh, and the τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also another division according to the λογοι.

The Greek text of this codex

Codex

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 is a representative of the Byzantine text-type

Byzantine text-type

The Byzantine text-type is one of several text-types used in textual criticism to describe the textual character of Greek New Testament manuscripts. It is the form found in the largest number of surviving manuscripts, though not in the oldest...

. 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 V. Text was collated and edited by Herman C. Hoskier

Herman C. Hoskier

Herman Charles Hoskier , was a biblical scholar, British textual critic, and son of a merchant banker, Herman Hoskier .Hoskier, as textual critic, supported the Byzantine text-type against the Alexandrian text-type...

.

Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 10th century.

The codex is located on Mount Athos

Mount Athos

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 in the library of the Monastery of St Panteleimon

Monastery of St Panteleimon

St. Panteleimon Monastery , is a Russian Orthodox monastery built on the southwest side of the peninsula of Mt. Athos in Greece...

 (99,2).

Further reading

• C. R. Gregory, Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes III (Leipzig: 1909), p. 1046.
• Herman C. Hoskier
  Herman C. Hoskier
  Herman Charles Hoskier , was a biblical scholar, British textual critic, and son of a merchant banker, Herman Hoskier .Hoskier, as textual critic, supported the Byzantine text-type against the Alexandrian text-type...
  
  , Concerning the Text of the Apocalypse (London: 1929), p. 5.