- Uncial 086
New Testament manuscript infobox
form=Uncial
number="'086"
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caption=
name=
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text=Gospel of John 1†; 3, 4†
script= Greek, Coptic diglot
date= 6th century
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now at=British Library
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size= 27 x 23 cm
type= mixed
cat= III
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note=Uncial 086 (Gregory-Aland), is a Greek — Coptic diglot,
uncial codex of theNew Testament , dated paleographically to the 6th century. The codex contains two small parts of theGospel of John 1:23-26; 3:5-4:23-35.45-49 on 13 parchment leaves (27 cm by 23 cm). Written in two columns per page, 20 and more lines per page. It is apalimpsest , the upper text contains a Coptic tables and formulae.The codex now is located in
British Library (Or. 5707) inLondon .The Greek text of this
codex is a mixed type. Aland placed it in Category III.See also
*
List of New Testament uncials
*Coptic versions of the Bible
*Textual criticism References
* Kurt Aland, and 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, p. 120.
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