Uncial 071 ε 015 (Soden), is a Greek

Greek language

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 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

Palaeography

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 to the 5th or 6th century. It came from Oxyrhynchus.

Description

The codex contains a small part of the Gospel of Matthew

Gospel of Matthew

The Gospel According to Matthew is one of the four canonical gospels, one of the three synoptic gospels, and the first book of the New Testament. It tells of the life, ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth...

 1:21-24; 1:25-2:2, on one parchment leaf (7 cm by 9,5 cm). It is written in one column per page, 13 lines per page.

Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 5th or 6th century.

Text
The Greek text of this codex

Codex

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 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...

, in close relationship with Codex Sinaiticus

Codex Sinaiticus

Codex Sinaiticus is one of the four great uncial codices, an ancient, handwritten copy of the Greek Bible. It is an Alexandrian text-type manuscript written in the 4th century in uncial letters on parchment. Current scholarship considers the Codex Sinaiticus to be one of the best Greek texts of...

, Vaticanus

Codex Vaticanus

The Codex Vaticanus , is one of the oldest extant manuscripts of the Greek Bible , one of the four great uncial codices. The Codex is named for the residence in the Vatican Library, where it has been stored since at least the 15th century...

, and Dublinensis

Codex Dublinensis

Codex Dublinensis designated by Z or 035 , ε 26 , is a Greek uncial manuscript of the Gospels, dated palaeographically to the 6th century. The manuscript is lacunose.- Description :...

. 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.

Verso [απο τ]ων [αμ]αρ[τιων αυ των τουτο δε ολον [γεγονεν ινα πληρωθη το ρη[θεν υ πο κυ δια του προφητ[ου λε γοντος ιδου η [θ] παρθενος εν γαστρι εξει και τεξετε υν και καλεσουσι το ονο μα αυτου Εμμανουηλ ο [ες]τιν μεθερμηνευομε [νον] μεθ ημων ο θς εγερ [θεις δε] Ι[ω]σηφ απο του υπ [νου εποιη]σεν ως προς [εταξεν αυτ]ω ο αγγελ[ος

Recto [νωσκεν] αυ[την εως ου ε [τεκεν υ]ν και εκαλεσε[ν το [ονο]μα αυτου Ιν του δε Ιυ γεννηθεντος εν βη θλεεμ της Ιουδαιας εν η μεραις Ηρωδου του βασι λεως ιδου μαγοι απο ανα τολων παραγενοντοεις Ιεροσολυμα λεγοντε [που εστιν ο τε[ι]χθεις βα[σιλευς των Ιουδαιων ει[δομεν γαρ αυτου το[ω αστερα εν [τ]η ανατο[λη]

Textual variants
Matt 1:24

εγερθεις — א, B, C, Z

Codex Dublinensis

Codex Dublinensis designated by Z or 035 , ε 26 , is a Greek uncial manuscript of the Gospels, dated palaeographically to the 6th century. The manuscript is lacunose.- Description :...

, 071, f¹

Family 1

Family 1 is a group of Greek Gospel manuscripts, varying in date from the 12th to the 15th century. The group takes its name from the minuscule codex 1, now in the Basel University Library. "Family 1" is also known as "the Lake Group", symbolized as f1. Hermann von Soden calls the group Ih...

διεγερθεις — C³, D

Codex Bezae

The Codex Bezae Cantabrigensis, designated by siglum Dea or 05 , δ 5 , is a codex of the New Testament dating from the 5th century written in an uncial hand on vellum. It contains, in both Greek and Latin, most of the four Gospels and Acts, with a small fragment of the 3 John...

, L

Codex Regius (New Testament)

Codex Regius designated by siglum Le or 019 , ε 56 , is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated paleographically to the 8th century. The manuscript is lacunose. It has marginalia....

, W

Codex Washingtonianus

The Codex Washingtonianus or Codex Washingtonensis, designated by W or 032 , ε 014 , also called the Washington Manuscript of the Gospels, and The Freer Gospel, contains the four biblical gospels and was written in Greek on vellum in the fourth or fifth century...

, 087

Uncial 087

Uncial 087 , ε 27 ; is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated paleographically to the 6th century. Formerly it was labelled by Θc.- Description :...

, f¹³

Family 13

Family 13, also known Ferrar Group , is a group of Greek Gospel manuscripts, varying in date from the 11th to the 15th century, which display a distinctive pattern of variant readings — especially in placing the story of Jesus and the woman taken in adultery in the Gospel of Luke, rather than in...

, mss 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...

Matt 1:25

υἱὸν (son) — א, B, Z, 071, f¹, f¹³, 33

Minuscule 33

Minuscule 33 , δ 48 , formerly it was called Codex Colbertinus 2844, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on parchment, dated palaeographically to the 9th century. The manuscript is lacunose. It has marginalia...

τὸν υἱὸν αὐτῆς τὸν πρωτότοκον (her firstborn son) — C, D, K

Codex Cyprius

Codex Cyprius, designated by Ke or 017 , ε 71 , is a Greek uncial manuscript of the four Gospels, on parchment. It was variously dated in the past , currently it is dated to the 9th century. It was brought from Cyprus to Paris...

, L

Codex Regius (New Testament)

Codex Regius designated by siglum Le or 019 , ε 56 , is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated paleographically to the 8th century. The manuscript is lacunose. It has marginalia....

 (omit αὐτῆς), W, Δ, Π

Codex Petropolitanus (New Testament)

Codex Petropolitanus, designated by Π or 041 , ε 73 , is a Greek uncial manuscript of the Gospels, dated palaeographically to the 9th century...

, 28

Minuscule 28

Minuscule 28 , ε 168 , formerly known as Colbertinus 4705, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, written on vellum. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century. It has marginalia. It is lacunose.- Description :The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 292...

, 565

Minuscule 565

Minuscule 565 , ε 93 , also known as the Empress Theodora's Codex. It is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on purple parchment, dated palaeographically to the 9th century...

, 700

Minuscule 700

Minuscule 700 , ε 133 , is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the Gospels. Formerly it was labelled as 604 in all catalogues , Gregory gave it the number 700....

, 892

Minuscule 892

Minuscule 892 , ε 1016 . It is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on 353 parchment leaves . It is dated palaeografically to the 9th century.- Description :...

, 1009, 1010, 1071, 1079, 1195, 1216, 1230, 1241, 1242, 1365

Present location
The codex is located now in Semitic Museum

Semitic Museum

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 (3735) at Harvard University

Harvard University

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, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge, Massachusetts

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.

See also

• List of New Testament uncials
• 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...
  
  
• Papyrus Oxyrhynchus

Further reading

• B. P. Grenfell
  Bernard Pyne Grenfell
  Bernard Pyne Grenfell was an English scientist and Egyptologist and a member of The Queen's College, Oxford.With his friend and colleague, Arthur Surridge Hunt, he took part in the archaeological dig of Oxyrhynchus and discovered many ancient manuscripts known as the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, including...
  
   & A. S. Hunt, Oxyrhynchus Papyri III, 401 (1903), pp. 1–2.