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.
| New Testament manuscript | |
| Text | Mark 6-10 † |
|---|---|
| Date | 5th century |
| Script | Greek |
| Found | 1976, Nubia |
| Now at | Coptic Museum |
| Size | 28 x 33 cm |
| Type | Alexandrian text-type |
| Category | II |
Description
editThe 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
editThe 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]
Text
editThe 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 61/2 192 2S[1].
Location
editAfter discovering it was held in Cairo. Currently the codex is housed at the Coptic Museum (6569/6571) in Cairo.[1]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c d e Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 127. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
- ^ Kurt Aland, Synopsis Quattuor Evangeliorum. Locis parallelis evangeliorum apocryphorum et patrum adhibitis edidit, Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1996, p. XXVI.
- ^ "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 25 April 2011.
Further reading
edit- 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
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- Uncial 0274 at the Wieland Willker, "Textual Commentary"