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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.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Help. There are 320 known uncial manuscripts on parchment of the New Testament. ... Great uncial codices (6 P)
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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 ...
One part of the codex was found by Tischendorf in an eastern monastery in 1853, another part in 1859. [7] As a result, the codex is divided and housed in two places. 158 leaves were bought in 1855 and they are housed in the Bodleian Library (Auct. T. infr 2.2) in Oxford and 99 leaves of the codex are located now in the National Library of Russia (Gr. 33) in Saint Petersburg.
The codex contains a small parts of the Gospel of Mark 6-10, on 4 parchment leaves (28 cm by 33 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 30 lines per page, in uncial letters. The text is written in two columns per page, 30 lines per page, in uncial letters.
The manuscript is a codex (precursor to the modern book) containing an almost complete text of the four Gospels on 257 thick parchment leaves (23.5 cm by 17 cm). The following portions are missing due to the loss of several leaves/pages: Matt 4:22-5:14, 28:17-20, Mark 10:16-30, 15:2-20, and John 21:15-25.