Uncial 097

New Testament manuscript infobox
form=Uncial
number=097


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text= Acts of Apostles 13:39-46
script= Greek
date= 7th century
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now at= Russian National Library
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size= 26 x 21 cm
type= mixed/Byzantine
cat= III/V
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Uncial 097 (Gregory-Aland), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated paleographically to the 7th century. The codex contains a small part of the Acts of Apostles 13:39-46, on two parchment leaves (26 cm by 21 cm). Written in two columns per page, 18 lines per page, in large uncial letters. It is a palimpsest, the upper text was written in Georgian, in 10th century.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. 121. ]

The codex now is located in Russian National Library (Gr. 18) [Uncial 095 has catalogue number Gr. 17, and Uncial 096 has catalogue number Gr. 19 in the same library.] in Saint Petersburg.

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the mixed text-type, but predominate the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it with some hasitation in Category III (Category V?).

See also

* List of New Testament uncials
* Textual criticism

References