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Page from Codex Sinaiticus with text of Matthew 6:4–32 Alexandrinus – Table of κεφάλαια (table of contents) to the Gospel of Mark. 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.
Only one uncial, Codex Sinaiticus has a complete text of the New Testament. Codex Alexandrinus has an almost complete text. It contains all books of the New Testament but lacks some leaves of Matthew (25), John (2), and Second Corinthians (3). Codex Vaticanus lacks the four last books, and the Epistle to the Hebrews is not complete. Codex ...
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 .
For the purposes of this compilation, as in philology, a "codex" is a manuscript book published from the late Antiquity period through the Middle Ages. (The majority of the books in both the list of manuscripts and list of illuminated manuscripts are codices.)
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 ...
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The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels, on 257 parchment leaves each approximately 22 cm by 16.3 cm. [2] [3] The leaves are arranged in quarto [4] and the text is written in two columns per page, 24 lines per column, [2] in very elegant and small uncial letters, with breathings and accents (in red) [further explanation needed]. [4]
The original codex contained lessons from the Gospel of John, Matthew, and Luke (Evangelistarium), [3] with some lacunae. 145 parchment leaves of the codex have survived. The leaves are measured (28.8 cm by 22 cm). [1] The text is written in Greek uncial letters, in two columns per page, 17