Uncial 0116

Uncial 0116 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 58 (Soden);[1] is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated paleographically to the 8th-century.[2] Formerly it was labelled at first by R (Griesbach and Scholz), then by W^b (Tischendorf), because letter R was reserved for Codex Nitriensis.[3]

Uncial 0116

New Testament manuscript papyri uncials minuscules lectionaries
Text	Matthew 19-21; 26-27; Mark 13-14; Luke 3-4 †
Date	8th-century
Script	Greek
Now at	Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III
Size	26 x 20 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V

Description

The codex contains a small parts of the Matthew 19:14-28; 20:23-21:2; 26:52-27:1; Mark 13:21-14:67; Luke 3:1-4:20,[4] on 14 thick parchment leaves (26 cm by 20 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 25 lines per page, in oblong uncial letters, leaning to the right.[3] It contains the Ammonian Sections numbers, without references to the Eusebian Canons (erased), and lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use).[5]

It is a palimpsests.[2]

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[2]

History

Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 8th-century.[2][6]

The codex was examined by Griesbach and Scholz. In 1843 it was exposed to chemicals by Tischendorf, who collated its text. Tischendorf pronounces to be an Evangelistarium.[5][7]

The codex now is located in the Biblioteca Nazionale (II C 15), in Naples.[2][6]

See also

• List of New Testament uncials
• Textual criticism
• Biblical manuscript

References

1. Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 40.
2. 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. 121. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
3. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. pp. 144, 151.
4. Kurt Aland, Synopsis Quattuor Evangeliorum. Locis parallelis evangeliorum apocryphorum et patrum adhibitis edidit, Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1996, p. XXIV.
5. Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 77.
6. "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 21 April 2011.
7. Tischendorf, Prolegomena, p. 395.

Further reading

• Constantin von Tischendorf, Jahrbuch der Literatur 117 (1847), pp. 8 ff.
• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 77.