Uncial 070

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Uncial 070
Name	Fragmentum Woideanum
Text	Luke–John †
Date	6th century
Script	Greek–Coptic diglot
Now at	Paris, Oxford, London, Vienna
Size	37 x 28 cm
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	III

Uncial 070 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 6 (Soden), is a Greek-Coptic diglot uncial manuscript of the New Testament. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 6th century.

Uncial 070 belonged to the same manuscript as codices: 0110, 0124, 0178, 0179, 0180, 0190, 0191, 0193, 0194, and 0202.^[1]

The manuscript is very lacunose.^[1]

Contents

070 (13 folios) – Luke 9:9-17; 10:40-11:6; 12:15-13:32; John 5:31-42; 8:33-42; 12:27-36

0110 (1 folio) – John 8:13-22

0124 + 0194 (22 folios) – Luke 3:19-30; 10:21-30; 11:24-42; 22:54-65; 23:4-24:26; John 5:22-31; 8:42-9:39; 11:48-56; 12:46-13:4

0178 (1 folio) – Luke 16:4-12

0179 (1 folio) – Luke 21:30-22:2

0180 (1 folio) – John 7:3-12

0190 (1 folio) – Luke 10:30-39

0191 (1 folio) – Luke 12:5-14

0193 (1 folio) – John 3:23-32

0202 (2 folios) – Luke 8:13-19; 8:55-9:9.^[1]

Description

The codex contains a parts of the Gospel of Luke and Gospel of John, on 44 parchment leaves (37 by 28 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 35 lines per page.^[1] The Coptic texts are not completely identical with the Greek.^[1] It is written in large, round, not compressed letters, in black ink. Pages have Coptic numbers.^[2] It used Spiritus asper, Spiritus lenis, and accents, but often wrongly.^[2] There are many itacistic errors.^[3]

Probably it was written by Coptic scribe. In Luke 13:21 he wrote βαβουσα instead of λαβουσα, in Luke 13:16 used δεκαι instead of δεκα και.^[4] The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category III. The Coptic texts are not completely identical with the Greek.^[1]

It has not the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) in the Coptic text. The Greek text has a lacuna in that place.

In Luke 23:34 omitted words are "And Jesus said: Father forgive them, they know not what they do." This omission is supported by the manuscripts Papyrus 75, Sinaiticus^a, B, D*, W, Θ, 1241, it^{a, d}, syr^s, cop^sa, cop^bo.^[5]

History

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

Nine leaves of the codex (Luke 12:15-13:32; John 8:33-42), belonged once to Carl Gottfried Woide, who received them from Egypt.^[2] They are known as Fragmentum Woideanum, they were designated by T^a or T^woi and were confused with Codex Borgianus. According to Tregelles they were parts of the same manuscript.^[7] Bp Lightfoot gave a reasons for thinking that this fragment was not originally a portion of Borgianus.

0124 was brought from White Monastery.

Present location

The codex is divided into 14 parts, but 11 codices, and located in 5 libraries of four cities.

• Fragmentum Woideanum from 070 is held in the Clarendon Press, b. 2 Oxford – 9 leaves, with inscription "Coptic and Sahidic Manuscripts from Cairo"
• part of 070 is held in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Copt. 132,2 Paris – 2 leaves
• rest of 070 is held in the Louvre MSE 10014, 10092k – 2 leaves
• 0110 is held in British Library, Add. 34274, 1 f., London
• 0194 (=0124) and 0202 are held in the British Library, Or. 3579 B [29], fol. 46, 47, 2 ff. London
• 0124, 0179, 0180, 0190, 0191, and 0193 are held in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Copt. 129,7 Paris
• 0178 is held in the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (1 f), in Vienna.^[1]

See also

Bible portal

• List of New Testament uncials
• Coptic versions of the Bible
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g} 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. ^ ^{a b c} C. R. Gregory, "Textkritik des Neuen Testaments", Leipzig 1900, vol. 1, p. 75.
3. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 69. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n81/mode/2up. 
4. ^ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. 1. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 147. 
5. ^ UBS4, p. 311.
6. ^ "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php. Retrieved 9 April 2011. 
7. ^ S. P. Tregelles, "An Introduction to the Critical study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures", London 1856, p. 180.

Further reading

• H. Ford, Appendix ad editionem Novi Testamenti Graeci e Codice MS Alexandrino a C. G. Woide descripti (Oxford, 1799), pp. 52–62, 83.
• E. Amélineau, Notice des manuscrits coptes de la Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris: 1985), pp. 373–374, 408-409. (Uncial 0124)
• C. R. Gregory, "Textkritik des Neuen Testaments", Leipzig 1900, vol. 1, p. 69 (0124), p. 75 (070).
• U. B. Schmid, D. C. Parker, W. J. Elliott, The Gospel according to St. John: The majuscules (Brill 2007), pp. 61-65. [text of the codex in the Gospel of John]
• K. Wessely, Studien zur Paläographie und Papyruskunde (Amsterdam 1966)

External links

• Uncial 070 at the Wieland Willker, "Textual Commentary"