Uncial 066

New Testament manuscripts
papyri • uncials • minuscules • lectionaries

Uncial 066
Text	Acts 28
Date	6th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Russian National Library
Size	25 x 20 cm
Type	Western text-type
Category	III

Uncial 066 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 1000 (Soden),^[1] is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 6th century.

Description

The codex contains a small part of the Acts 28:8-17, on one parchment leaf (25 cm by 20 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 25 lines per page. It is a palimpsest. The upper text has a Georgian calendar.^[2]

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Western text-type, but it has some the Caesarean readings. Kurt Aland placed it in Category III.^[2]

Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 6th century.^[3]

It is currently housed at the Russian National Library (Suppl. Gr. 6, II, fol 4) in Saint Petersburg.^[2]

See also

• List of New Testament uncials
• Textual criticism

References

1. ^ 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. 
2. ^ ^{a b c} 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. 
3. ^ "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php. Retrieved 9 April 2011. 

Further reading

• Constantin von Tischendorf, "Monumenta sacra et profana" I (Leipzig: 1846), pp. 43 ff.
• Kurt Treu, "Die Griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments in der USSR; eine systematische Auswertung des Texthandschriften in Leningrad, Moskau, Kiev, Odessa, Tbilisi und Erevan", T & U 91 (Berlin: 1966), pp. 292-293.