Uncial 0260 Explained

Uncial 0260 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek-Coptic uncial manuscript of the New Testament. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 6th century. The manuscript has survived in a very fragmentary condition.

Description

The codex contains some parts of the Gospel of John 1:30-32, on 2 parchment leaves . The text is written in two columns per page, 16 lines per page, in uncial letters. Coptic text is in Fayyumic dialect.^[1]

Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 6th century.^{[1] [2]}

Location

Currently the codex is housed at the Berlin State Museums (P. 5542) in Berlin.^[1]

Text

The text-type of this codex is mixed. Aland placed it in Category III.^[1] The manuscript was examined by Kurt Treu and Horseley. Iw was used in 26. edition of Novum Testamentum Graece of Nestle-Aland.

See also

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

Further reading

• Kurt Treu . Neue Neutestamentliche Fragmente der Berliner Papyrussammlung. Archiv für Papyrusforschung und Verwandte Gebiete. 1966. 18. 10.1515/apf.1966.1966.18.23. Kurt Treu. 1966. 23–38 .
• Kurt Treu, "Griechisch-koptische Bilinguen des Neuen Testaments", Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Martin-Luther-Universität (Halle/Wittenberg, 1965), pp. 95-123.
• G. H. R. Horseley, "New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity" 2 (Macquarie University, 1982), pp. 125-140.
• U. B. Schmid, D. C. Parker, W. J. Elliott, The Gospel according to St. John: The majuscules (Brill 2007), p. 145. [text of the codex]

Notes and References

1. Book: Kurt Aland

   . 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 . 127 . limited . 978-0-8028-4098-1.

2. Web site: Liste Handschriften . Institute for New Testament Textual Research . 31 October 2020 . Münster.