New Testament manuscript
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]
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