Uncial 0205

New Testament manuscript infobox
form=Uncial
number=0205


caption=
name=
sign=
text=Epistle to Titus
script=Greek, Coptic
date=8th century
now at=Cambridge University Library
cite=
size=32 x 22.5 cm
type=Alexandrian text-type
cat= II
hand=
note=

Codex 0205 (Gregory-Aland). It is a Greek-Coptic (Sahidic) uncial manuscript of the Epistle to Titus and the Epistle to Philemon, dated paleographically to the 8th century (J.M. Plumley proposed 7th or 6th century). Possibly it was a complete codex of the Pauline epistles, of which only 2 leaves survived (32 cm by 22.5 cm). Each page contains two parallel columns with 35 lines, and 12-13 letters per line. The codex is written in Greek and Coptic, but it is not a genuine diglot manuscript. On the first page, the first column and the first seven lines of the second column contains Titus 2:15b-3:7 in Greek. At this point the Coptic text begins with Titus 2:11 and continues to the end book of Philemon. The Greek represents only 15% of the text of the manuscript.

The codex is located in the Cambridge University Library (Or. 1699 II x).

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category II.

See also

* List of New Testament uncials
* Coptic versions of the Bible
* Textual criticism

References

* Kurt Aland, 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.

Further readings

* J.K. Elliott, "A. Greek - Coptic (Sahidic) fragment of Titus - Philemon (0205)", Novum Testamentum XXXVI, 2 (1994), pp. 183-195.