Uncial 0236 Explained

Uncial 0236 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek-Coptic uncial manuscript of the New Testament. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 5th century.

Description

The codex contains two small parts of the Acts of the Apostles 3:12-13,15-16, on one parchment leaf (22 cm by 18 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 26 lines per page, in uncial letters.^[1]

Text

The Greek text of this codex is mixed. Aland placed it in Category III.^[1]

History

Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 5th century.^[2]

It was examined by Pasquale Orsini.^[3]

The manuscript was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by Kurt Aland in 1954.^[4]

Currently the codex is housed at the Pushkin Museum (Golenishev Copt. 55) in Moscow.

See also

• List of New Testament uncials
• Coptic versions of the Bible
• Textual criticism

Further reading

• 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), p. 133.
• P. Weigandt, "Zwei griechisch-sahidische Acta-Handschriften: p. 41 und 0236", ANTF 3 (Berlin, 1969), pp. 72-95.

Notes and References

1. Book: Aland , Kurt . Kurt Aland

   . 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 . 126 . 978-0-8028-4098-1.

2. Web site: Liste Handschriften . Institute for New Testament Textual Research . 18 December 2015 . Münster.
3. P. Orsini, Manoscritti in maiuscola biblica, p. 297.
4. Book: Kurt Aland . Kurzgefasste Liste der griechieschen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments . Berlin . Walter de Gruyter . 1963 . 10.