- Uncial 087
New Testament manuscript infobox
form=Uncial
number=087
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text= Matt 1-2; 19; 21; John 18
script= Greek
date= 6th century
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now at=Russian National Library , St. Catherine's Monastery
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size= 34 x 26 cm
type=Alexandrian text-type
cat= II
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note=Uncial 087 (Gregory-Aland), Soden ε 27; is a Greek
uncial manuscript of theNew Testament , dated paleographically to the 6th century. The codex contains a small parts of theGospel of Matthew 1:23-2:2; 19:3-8; 21:19-24, and theGospel of John 18:29-35 on 3 parchment leaves (34 cm by 26 cm). Written in one column per page, 18 lines per page, in very large uncial letters.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. ]The codex now is located in
Russian National Library (Gr. 12,278) inSaint Petersburg , and in St. Catherine's Monastery (Gr. 218) in Sinai.From the same manuscript descendits one parchment leave classified as Uncial 092b. [It was wrongly connected with 092b into one manuscript and registered as 089. They were belonged to the different manuscripts. ] It contains
Gospel of Mark 12:32-37. It is located in St. Catherine's Monastery (Sinai Harris 11, 1 f.).The Greek text of this
codex is a representative of theAlexandrian text-type with some allien readings. Aland placed it in Category II.See also
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List of New Testament uncials
*Uncial 089
*Textual criticism References
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