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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 ...
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. This style of writing is called Biblical Uncial or Biblical Majuscule. New Testament uncials are distinct from other ancient texts based on the following ...
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 .
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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 ...
The word, uncial, is also sometimes used to refer to manuscripts that have been scribed in uncial, especially when differentiating from those penned with minuscule. Some of the most noteworthy Greek uncials are: Codex Sinaiticus; Codex Vaticanus; Codex Alexandrinus – these being three of what are often called the four great uncial codices ...
Codex Vaticanus Graecus 2061, usually known as Uncial 048 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α1 , is a Greek uncial manuscript on parchment. It contains some parts of the New Testament, homilies of several authors, and Strabo's Geographica. Formerly it was known also as the Codex Basilianus 100, earlier as Codex Patriniensis 27. [1]
A full and exact collation of Codex Sinaiticus, 1864. Bezae Codex Cantabrigiensis: being an exact Copy, in ordinary Type, of the celebrated Uncial Graeco-Latin Manuscript of the Four Gospels and Acts of the Apostles, written early in the Sixth Century, and presented to the University of Cambridge by Theodore Beza A.D. 1581.