Uncial 050
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| Uncial 050 | |
| Text | John |
|---|---|
| Date | 9th century |
| Script | Greek |
| Now at | Dionysiou monastery Museum of History of Moscow National Library of Greece Christ Church, Oxford |
| Size | 32,5 x 24 cm |
| Type | mixed |
| Category | III |
Uncial 050 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), AL1 (von Soden), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, written on parchment. Paleographically it had been assigned to the 9th century.[1] Formerly it was labelled by We.[2]
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[edit] Description
The codex contains the text of the Gospel of John, with a numerous lacunae, on 19 parchment leaves (32,5 cm by 24 cm). Written in one column per page, 5-9 lines per page, 17-24 letters in line. The uncial letters are large. It has breathings and accents. The biblical text is surrounded by a catena.[1] Commentary written in minuscule. The codex contains the text of the Gospel of John with numerous lacunae. Some of leaves survived in a fragmentary condition.
It contains text John 1:1.3-4, 2:17-3:8.12-13.20-22, 4:7-14, 20:10-13.15-17.[3]
Verse 21:25 is repeated twice and 20:17 even thrice.[2]
[edit] Text
The Greek text of the codex is mixed with the Byzantine, Alexandrian text-type, and Western readings. Several times it concurs with Papyrus 75 (John 2:17; 3:12 etc.). Kurt Aland placed it in Category III.[1]
In John 3:12 it has textual variant πιστευετε (you believe) - instead of πιστευσετε (you will believe) - together with the manuscripts Papyrus 75 and Uncial 083.
[edit] History
Possibly the codex was written in the Dionysiou monastery at Athos peninsula.[2]
The fragment John 4:7-14 (three leaves) was discovered by Henry Bradshaw in 1863. George William Kitchin shaw it for Tischendorf (1865).[4]
It was examined by Tregelles.
The codex is divided and located in four places. 2 leaves at the Εθνική Βιβλιοθήκη (1371) in Athens, 7 leaves in the Dionysiou monastery 2 (71), in Athos, 7 leaves in the Museum of History of Moscow (V. 29, S. 119), and 3 leaves in the Christ Church, Oxford (Wake 2,3).[1]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d Kurt Aland et Barbara Aland, The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism, transl. Erroll F. Rhodes, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1995, p. 118.
- ^ a b c C. R. Gregory, "Textkritik des Neuen Testaments", Leipzig 1900, vol. 1, p. 59.
- ^ Kurt Aland, "Synopsis Quattuor Evangeliorum. Locis parallelis evangeliorum apocryphorum et patrum adhibitis edidit", Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1996, p. XXII.
- ^ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 152.
[edit] Further reading
- B. Ehlers, "Eine Katene zum Johannes-Evangelium in Moskau, auf dem Athos (Dionysiou), in Athen and in Oxford (050)", ANTF 3, pp. 96-133.
- C. R. Gregory, "Textkritik des Neuen Testaments", Leipzig 1900, vol. 1, pp. 59, 78-79.
[edit] External links
- Uncial 050 at the Wieland Willker, "Textual Commentary"
