Uncial 0169

Uncial 0169

New Testament manuscript

Name P. Oxy. 1080
Text Revelation 3:19-4:3
Date 4th century
Script Greek
Found Oxyrhynchus
Now at Princeton Theological Seminary
Size 9.3 x 7.7 cm
Type Alexandrian text-type
Category III

Uncial 0169 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), known also as the Princeton fragment, is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated palaeographically to the 4th century.

Description

The codex contains a small parts of the Book of Revelation 3:19-4:3, on an almost complete parchment leaf (9.3 cm by 7.7 cm). It is written in one column per page, 14 lines per page, in small uncial letters.[1] The hand of the codex is a fair-sized upright uncial, fairly regular.[2]

The letter sigma was formed with two strokes of the pen, and epsilon with three strokes; the letters kappa and upsilon have serifs.[2]

The two pages are numbered in the outside upper corner 33 and 34.[3] The nomina sacra are written in abbreviated forms, but some of the usual contractions are written in length forms (e.g. ουρανω).[4]

Text

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category III.[1] According to R. H. Charles the text is "much more closely with Codex Sinaiticus than with any other uncial". The text seems to be inaccurately copied.[4]

Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 4th century.[1][5]

The text was edited in 1911 by Grenfell and Hunt.[6]

The codex currently is housed at the Princeton Theological Seminary (Speer Library, Pap. 5) in Princeton.[1][5]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 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. 123. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
  2. 1 2 Bruce M. Metzger, Manuscripts of the Greek Bible. An Introduction to Greek Paleography, Oxford University Press, New York - Oxford 1991, p. 72.
  3. ↑ B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, Oxyrhynchus Papyri VIII (London 1911), p. 14.
  4. 1 2 B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, Oxyrhynchus Papyri VIII (London 1911), p. 15.
  5. 1 2 "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 21 April 2011.
  6. ↑ B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, Oxyrhynchus Papyri VIII (London 1911), pp. 14–16.

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