Uncial 0161

Uncial **0161**
New Testament manuscript
Text	Matthew 22:7-46
Date	8th century
Script	Greek
Now at	National Library of Greece
Size	22 x 16 cm
Type	mixed
Category	III

Uncial 0161 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 019 (von Soden), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated paleographically to the 8th century.^[1]

Description

The codex contains a small part of the Gospel of Matthew 22:7-46, on one parchment leaf (22 cm by 16 cm). It is written in two columns per page, 37 lines per page, in small uncial letters. It is a palimpsest, the upper text contains Greek notes, bound with the minuscule codex 1419.^[1]

The Greek text of this codex is mixed, but with strong the Byzantine element. Aland placed it in Category III.^[1]

It was the last uncial manuscript classified by Caspar René Gregory. Gregory saw it in 1904.^[2]

Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 8th century.^[1]^[3]

The codex currently is housed at the Εθνική Βιβλιοθήκη (139, ff. 245–246) in Athens.^[1]^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 123. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 44.
^ ^a ^b "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 21 April 2011.