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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.
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.
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 .
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.
It is one of the four great uncial codices. [1]: 68 Along with Codex Alexandrinus and Codex Sinaiticus, it is one of the earliest and most complete manuscripts of the Bible. Using the study of comparative writing styles (palaeography), it has been dated to the 4th century. [2] [3]
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 manuscript is a codex (precursor to the modern book), containing 261 parchment leaves (sized 21 by 15.3 centimetres (8.3 by 6.0 in)), [2] with the text-block being 15 by 8.7 centimetres (5.9 by 3.4 in). [3] The text is written in small uncial letters, in one column of 31 lines per page. [1]
The manuscript is a codex (precursor to the modern book), containing an almost complete text of the four Gospels written on 249 parchment leaves (size 29 cm by 24 cm), with the following gaps: Matthew 1:1–9, 1:21–4:4, and 4:17–5:4. [2] The text is written in two columns per page, with 19-32 lines per column. [3]