Uncial 0116 Explained

Uncial 0116 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 58 (Soden);^[1] is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated paleographically to the 8th-century. Formerly it was labelled at first by R (Griesbach and Scholz), then by W^b (Tischendorf), because letter R was reserved for Codex Nitriensis.

Description

The codex contains a small parts of the Matthew 19:14-28; 20:23-21:2; 26:52-27:1; Mark 13:21-14:67; Luke 3:1-4:20,^[2] on 14 thick parchment leaves (26 cm by 20 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 25 lines per page, in oblong uncial letters, leaning to the right.^[3] It contains the Ammonian Sections numbers, without references to the Eusebian Canons (erased), and lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use).

It is a palimpsests.^[4]

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.^[4]

History

Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 8th-century.^{[4] [5]}

The codex was examined by Griesbach and Scholz.In 1843 it was exposed to chemicals by Tischendorf, who collated its text. Tischendorf pronounces to be an Evangelistarium.^{[6] [7]}

The codex now is located in the Biblioteca Nazionale (II C 15), in Naples.

See also

• List of New Testament uncials
• Textual criticism
• Biblical manuscript

Further reading

• Constantin von Tischendorf, Jahrbuch der Literatur 117 (1847), pp. 8 ff.
• Book: Gregory , Caspar René . Caspar René Gregory . Textkritik des Neuen Testaments . J.C. Hinrichs . 1900 . Leipzig . 1 . 77 .

Notes and References

1. Book: Gregory, Caspar René . Caspar René Gregory . Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament . 1908 . J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung . Leipzig . 40.
2. Kurt Aland, Synopsis Quattuor Evangeliorum. Locis parallelis evangeliorum apocryphorum et patrum adhibitis edidit, Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1996, p. XXIV.
3. Book: Scrivener , Frederick Henry Ambrose . Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener . Edward Miller . . . 1894 . London . 4 . 1 . 144, 151 .
4. 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.
5. Web site: Liste Handschriften . Institute for New Testament Textual Research . 21 April 2011 . Münster.
6. Book: Gregory , Caspar René . Caspar René Gregory . Textkritik des Neuen Testaments . J.C. Hinrichs . 1900 . Leipzig . 1 . 77 .
7. Tischendorf, Prolegomena, p. 395.