Uncial 0108 Explained

Uncial 0108 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 60 (Soden),^[1] is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated paleographically to the 7th-century. Formerly it was labelled by Θ^d.^[2]

Description

The codex contains a small part of the Gospel of Luke 11:37-41.42-45, on one parchment leaves (30 cm by 24 cm). It is written in two columns per page, 23-24 lines per page, in uncial letters.^[3] Accents were added by a later hand.^[2]

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category II.^[3]

History

C. R. Gregory dated the manuscript to the 7th or 8th-century. Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 7th century.^{[3] [4]}

Constantin von Tischendorf brought the manuscript from the East in 1859, and edited its text in his Notitia.^[5]

It was described by Eduard de Muralt and Kurt Treu.

The codex currently is located at the Russian National Library (Gr. 22) in Saint Petersburg.^[3]

See also

• List of New Testament uncials
• Textual criticism

Further reading

• Constantin von Tischendorf, Notitia editionis codicis Bibliorum Sinaitici (Leipzig, 1860), p. 50.
• Kurt Treu, Die Griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments in der USSR; eine systematische Auswertung des Texthandschriften in Leningrad, Moskau, Kiev, Odessa, Tbilisi und Erevan, T & U 91 (Berlin: 1966), pp. 39–40.

Notes and References

1. Kurt Aland, Synopsis Quattuor Evangeliorum. Locis parallelis evangeliorum apocryphorum et patrum adhibitis edidit, Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1996, p. XXIII.
2. Book: Scrivener , Frederick Henry Ambrose . Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener . Edward Miller . . . 1894 . London . 4 . 1 . 159 .
3. Book: Aland , Kurt . Kurt Aland . Aland . Barbara . Barbara Aland . Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) . The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism . . 1995 . Grand Rapids . 121 . limited . 978-0-8028-4098-1.
4. Web site: Liste Handschriften . Institute for New Testament Textual Research . 21 April 2011 . Münster.
5. Book: Gregory , Caspar René . Caspar René Gregory . Textkritik des Neuen Testaments . J.C. Hinrichs . 1900 . Leipzig . 1 . 88–89 .