Uncial 068

New Testament manuscripts
papyri • uncials • minuscules • lectionaries

Uncial 068
Text	John 13:16-27; 16:7-19
Date	5th century
Script	Greek
Found	1847, Nitrian desert
Now at	British Library
Size	26 x 24 cm
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	III
Note	marginalia

Uncial 068 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 3 (Soden), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated paleographically to the 5th century. Tischendorf designated it by I^b, Scrivener by N^b.^[1] It has some marginalia.

Description

The codex contains a fragments of the John 13:16-27; 16:7-19 (with lacunae), on 2 parchment leaves (26 cm by 24 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 18 lines per page in large uncial letters.^[2][3] It has no capital letters.^[1]

It is a double palimpsest, the Greek biblical text was overwritten twice in Syriac language, in the 9th century, and in the 10th or 11th century. It contains hymns of Severus in Syriac.^[3] The Ammonian Sections are present, but the Eusebian Canons absent. It contains breathing and accents.^[3] It has itacistic errors (e.g. κρεισεως in John 16:8).

Contents

John 13:16-17.19-20.23-24.26-27; 16:7-9.12-13.15-16.18-19^[4]

Text

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type, with some non-Alexandrian readings (e.g. J 16:12). Aland placed in Category III.^[2]

John 16:7-8,12-15

[πεμ]ψω αυτον [προ]ς υμας [και ελθ]ων εκει [νος] ελεγξει τον [κοσ]μον περι [αμαρ]τιας και [περ]ι δικαιοσυ νης και περι κρεισεως

ετι πολλα εχω λε γειν υμιν αλλ ου δυνασθαι βαστα ζειν αρτι οταν δε ελθη εκεινος το πνα της αλη θειας οδηγησει υμας εις πασαν την αληθειαν

John 16:15-16.18-19

Δια τουτο ειπον οτι εκ του εμου λαμβανει και α ναγγελει υμιν μεικρον και ουκ ετι θεωρειτε με και παλιν μεικρο και οψεσθαι με οτι υπαγω προς

τουτο [τι εστι] ο λεγει [το μικρο] ουκ οιδα[μεν τι] λαλει Εγνω [ο ις οτι η] θελον [αυτον ε] ρωταν και [ειπεν] αυτοις περι [του] του ζητειτε

History

Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 5th century.^[5]

The manuscript was found in 1847 in the monastery at Nitrian Desert and brought to London.^[3] It was examined and deciphered by Tregelles and Tischendorf (about the same time).^[1]

Location

The codex now is located at the British Library (Add. 17136) in London.^[2][5]

See also

• List of New Testament uncials
• Textual criticism

Double palimpsests

• British Library, Add. 17212
• Codex Vaticanus 2061

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 141. 
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. ^ ^{a b c d} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 54. 
4. ^ Kurt Aland, Synopsis Quattuor Evangeliorum. Locis parallelis evangeliorum apocryphorum et patrum adhibitis edidit, Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1996, p. XXII.
5. ^ ^{a b} "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 II (Leipzig: 1857), pp. 311-312.
• U. B. Schmid, D. C. Parker, W. J. Elliott, The Gospel according to St. John: The majuscules (Brill 2007), pp. 59-60. [text of the codex in new reconstruction]