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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.
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 ...
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 .
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]
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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 .