Uncial 069

New Testament manuscripts
papyri • uncials • minuscules • lectionaries

Uncial 069
Name	P. Oxy. 3
Text	Mark
Date	5th century
Script	Greek
Now at	University of Chicago
Size	8 x 4,5 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	III
Note	concurs with codex A

Uncial 069 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 12 (Soden),^[1] is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated paleographically to the 5th century.

Description

The codex contains very small part of the Gospel of Mark 10:50.51; 11:11.12, on one parchment leaf (8 cm by 4,5 cm). The text is written in one column per page, 25 lines per page,^[2] 11-15 letters in line,^[3] in a calligraphic uncial hand.^[4] The letters A and M are not typical Egyptian.^[3]

The nomina sacra are written in an abbreviated way.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category III.^[2] It concurs with Codex Alexandrinus, and the part preserved agrees with the Textus Receptus.^[4] It could be a member of the Family Π. The text is too brief for certainty.

Recto ιμ]ΑΤΙΟ [αυτου α]ΝΑΣΤΑΣΗΛ ΘΕΝΠΡΟΣΤΟΝΙΝ ΚΑΙΑΠΟΚΡΙΘΕΙΣΛε[?] ΓΕΙΑΥΤΩΟΙΣΤΙΘ[ε] ΛΕΙΣΠΟΙΗΣΩΣΟ[ι] ΟΔΕΤΥΦΛΟΣΕΙ[πεν]

Verso Και[περι βλεψαμε] ΝΟΣΠΑΝ[τα οψι] ΑΣΗΔΗΟΥΣΗΣΤΗ[ς] ΩΡΑΣΕΞΗΛΘΕΝ ΕΙΣ ΒΗΘΑΝΙΑΝ ΜΕ [τ]ΑΤΩΝΔΩΔΕΚΑ [k]ΑΙΤΗΕΠΑΥΡΙΟΝ[3]

History

Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 5th century.^[5]

The manuscript was discovered by the Egyptologist Bernard Grenfell (1869-1926) and the Papyrologist Arthur Hunt (1871-1934). It was presented to the University of Chicago in the early 20th century.

Present location

The codex now is located at the Oriental Institute (2057) in University of Chicago.^[2][5]

See also

• List of New Testament uncials
• Textual criticism
• Oxyrhynchus Papyri

References

1. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 38. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n49/mode/2up. 
2. ^ ^{a b c} Aland, Kurt; Barbara Aland; Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 119. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1. 
3. ^ ^{a b c} C. R. Gregory, Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Leipzig 1900, vol. I, p. 68.
4. ^ ^{a b} B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, Oxyrhynchus Papyri I (London, 1898), p. 7.
5. ^ ^{a b} "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php. Retrieved 9 April 2011. 

Further reading

• B. P. Grenfell & A. S. Hunt, Oxyrhynchus Papyri I (London, 1898), p. 7.
• C. R. Gregory, Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Leipzig 1900, vol. I, p. 68.
• Merrill Mead Parvis, The Story of the Goodspeed Collection (Chicago, 1952), pp. 3-4.
• New Testament manuscript traditions. An exhibition based on the Edgar J. Goodspeed Collection of the University of Chicago Library, the Joseph Regenstein Library, January-March, 1973. University of Chicago. Library. Dept. of Special Collections. Exhibition catalogs (Chicago, 1973), 36.

External links

• Images at the Goodspeed Manuscript Collection