Uncial 0274 Explained

Uncial 0274 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 5th century.

Description

The codex contains a small parts of the Gospel of Mark 6-10, on 4 parchment leaves (28 cm by 33 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 30 lines per page, in uncial letters. It is a palimpsest. ^[1]

Contents

The codex contains: Gospel of Mark 6:56-7:4.6-9.13-17.19-23.29-29.34-35; 8:3-4.8-11; 9:20-22.26-41; 9:43-10:1.17-22.^[2]

Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 5th century.^{[1] [3]}

Text

The Greek text of this codex probably is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. According to Kurt and Barbara Aland it does not support the Byzantine text against the original, it agrees 6 times with the Byzantine when it has the same reading as the original text. It agrees 19 times with the original text against the Byzantine. It has 2 independent or distinctive readings. Alands placed it with hesitation in Category II.^[1]

Aland gave the following textual profile for it: 0¹ 6^1/2 19² 2^S.

Location

After discovering it was held in Cairo. Currently the codex is housed at the Coptic Museum (6569/6571) in Cairo.^[1]

See also

• List of New Testament uncials
• Textual criticism

Further reading

• J. M. Plumley and C. H. Roberts, "An Uncial Text of St. Mark in Greek from Nubia", JTS XXVII (1976), 34-45.
• W. H. C. Frend and I. A. Muirhead, "The Greek Manuscripts from the Cathedral of Q'asr Ibrim", Muséon 89 (1976), 43-49.
• G. M. Browne, "The Sunnati Mark", ZPE 66 (1986), 49-52.

External links

• Uncial 0274 at the Wieland Willker, "Textual Commentary"

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

2. Kurt Aland, Synopsis Quattuor Evangeliorum. Locis parallelis evangeliorum apocryphorum et patrum adhibitis edidit, Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1996, p. XXVI.
3. Web site: Liste Handschriften . Institute for New Testament Textual Research . 25 April 2011 . Münster.