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The great uncial codices or four great uncials are the only remaining uncial codices that contain (or originally contained) the entire text of the Bible (Old and New Testament) in Greek. They are the Codex Vaticanus in the Vatican Library , the Codex Sinaiticus and the Codex Alexandrinus in the British Library , and the Codex Ephraemi ...
A section of the codex containing 1 Esdras 2:1–8. The codex originally contained a virtually complete copy of the Greek Old Testament (known as the Septuagint / LXX), lacking only 1-4 Maccabees and the Prayer of Manasseh. The original 20 leaves containing Genesis 1:1–46:28a (31 leaves) and Psalm 105:27–137:6b have been lost.
There are 320 known uncial manuscripts on parchment of the New Testament. Existing articles in the Wikipedia to the related codex are listed in this category. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Greek New Testament uncials .
Codex Sinaiticus, Luke 11:2 Codex Alexandrinus, John 1:1–7. A New Testament uncial is a section of the New Testament in Greek or Latin majuscule letters, written on parchment or vellum.
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Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus, two of the great uncial codices, representatives of the Alexandrian text-type, are considered excellent manuscript witnesses of the text of the New Testament. Most critical editions of the Greek New Testament give precedence to these two chief uncial manuscripts, and the majority of translations are based ...
Minuscule 1739 or Codex Athous Laurae 184 is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament made of parchment. It is designated as 1739 in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts, and as α 78 in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts.
The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type, with some Alexandrian readings. According to Hermann von Soden it is one of the three oldest manuscripts that present the earliest variety of the Byzantine text-type (after S and V). [2] [5] Soden included it to the textual family K 1. [5] Kurt Aland placed it in ...