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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 .
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.)
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Codex Vaticanus 2066, designed by 046 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 1070 , formerly it was known also as Codex Basilianus, previously it was designated by B r or B 2. [1] It is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament written on vellum .
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels, on 258 parchment leaves (27 cm by 19.5 cm). Written in two columns per page, 8 lines per page, in uncial letters. [1] The text-type of this codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the K 1. [2] Aland placed it in Category V. [1]
Uncial 049 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 2 . It is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament . Paleographically it has been assigned to the 9th century.