Uncial 059

New Testament manuscripts
papyri • uncials • minuscules • lectionaries

Uncial 059
Fragment with Mark 15:29-33
Text	Mark 15 †
Date	4th/5th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Austrian National Library
Size	15 x 11 cm
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	III

Uncial 059 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 09 (Soden), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated paleographically to the 4th or 5th century.

Description

The codex contains a part of the Gospel of Mark (15:29-38), on 1 parchment leaf (15 cm by 11 cm). The text is written in one column per page, 19 lines per page.^[1]

The leaf designated by 059 came from the same manuscript as 0215 (Mark 15:20-21,26-27).^[1]

Text

recto ΠΑ[ραπ]ΟΡΕΥ[ομεν]οι ΕΒΛΑΣΦΗΜΟΥΝ ΑΥΤΟΝ ΚΕΙ ΝΟΥΝΤΕΣΤΑΣΚΕΦΑΛΑΣΑΥΤΩ ΚΑΙΛΕΓΟΝΤΑΣ ΟΥΑ ΟΚΑΤΑΛΥ ΩΝΤΟΝ[ν]ΑΟΝΚΑΙΟΚΟΔΟΜΩ ΕΝΤΡΙΣΙΝΗΜΕΡΑΙΣΣΩΣΟΝΣΕ ΑΥΤΟΝ ΚΑΤΑΒΑΣΑΠΟΤΟΥΣΡΥ ΟΙΟΙΩΣΚΑΙΟΙΑΡΧΙΕΡΕΙΣΕΜ ΠΑΙΖΟΝΤΕΣΠΡΟΣΑΛΛΗΛΟΥΣ ΜΕΤΑΤΩΝΓΡΑΜ[μ]ΑΤΕΩΝΕ ΛΕΓΟΝ ΑΛ[λους εσωσεν]ΕΑΥ Τ[ον ου]ΔΥΝ[αται σωσαι ο]ΧΣ [erased κατ]Α[βατ]Ω [... ι]ΝΑΙΔΩΜΕ [και πιστευ]ΣΩ[μεν]ΚΑΙΟΙΣΥΝ [εσταυρωμενοι]ΑΥΤΩΩΝΕΙΔΙΖΟΝ [αυτον γ]ΕΝΟΜΕΝΗΣΩΡΑΣ [erased]

verso ΕΦ[ολην]ΤΗΝ[εως ωρας] ΕΝΑΤΗΣ ΚΑΙΤΗΕΝΑΤΗΩΡΑ ΕΒΟΗΣΕΝΟΙΣΦΩΝΗΜΕΓΑΛΗ ΗΛΕΙΗΛΕΙ ΛΑΜΑΣΑΒΑ[χθα] ΝΕΙ ΟΕΣΤΙΝΜΕΘΕ[ρμηνευο] ΜΕΝΟΝ ΟΘΣΟΘΣΜΟΥΕΣΤΙ ΕΓΚΑΤΕΛΙΠΕΣ[μ]ΕΚΑΙΤΙΝΕΣ ΤΩΝΠΑΡΕΣΤΗ[κοτων ακου] ΣΑΝΤΕΣΕΛΕΓΟΝ[ιδου ηλιαν] ΦΩΝΕΙ .............. ΚΑΙ [γε] ΜΙ [σας ............. erased ] [....................................] [....................................] ΤΑΙΗΛΕΙ [ας καθελειν] οδεισα . [...................] ΕΞΕΙΠΝΕΝΥΣΕΝ .. [.......] ΤΑΣΜΑΤΟΥΝΑ[2]

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category III.^[1]

History

Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 4th or 5th century.^[1][3]

The manuscript was examined by Karl Wessely, Guglielmo Cavallo,^[4] and Pasquale Orsini.^[5] Gregory added it to the list of New Testament manuscripts.^[6]

The codex is located at the Austrian National Library, in Vienna. Leaf 059 has number of catalogue Pap. G. 39779, and leaf 0215 – Pap. G. 36112.^[1]

See also

• List of New Testament uncials
• Textual criticism

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e} Aland, Kurt; Barbara Aland; Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 119. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1. 
2. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig. p. 73–74. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n85/mode/2up. 
3. ^ "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php. Retrieved 9 April 2011. 
4. ^ G. Cavallo, Ricerche sulla maiuscola biblica (1967), pl.46b;
5. ^ Manoscritti in maiuscola biblica. Materiali per un aggiornamento, Cassino, Edizioni dell'Università degli Studi di Cassino, 2005 (Collana scientifica, Studi Archeologici, Artistici, Filologici, Letterari e Storici), 28.
6. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 38. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n49/mode/2up. 

Further reading

• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 73–74. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n85/mode/2up. 
• Karl Wessely, Griechische und koptische Texte theologischen inhalts, Studien zur Paläographie und Papyruskunde, (Leipzig 1912) reprinted (Amsterdam 1966), p. 243, no. 186.
• G. Cavallo, Ricerche sulla maiuscola biblica (1967), pl. 46b;

External links

• LDAB