Uncial 065 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 1 (Soden), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated paleographically to the 6th century
Description The codex contains a small parts of the John 11:50-12:9, 15:12-16:2, 19:11-24,Kurt Aland, Synopsis Quattuor Evangeliorum. Locis parallelis evangeliorum apocryphorum et patrum adhibitis edidit, Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1996, p. XXIII. on 3 parchment leaves (29 cm by 23 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 29 lines per page.
It is a palimpsest, the upper text contains a Georgian calendar.
The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Kurt Aland placed it in Category V.
Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 6th century.
It was examined by Tischendorf, Kurt Treu, and Schmid.
It is currently housed at the Russian National Library (Suppl. Gr. 6, I) in Saint Petersburg.
See also List of New Testament uncials Textual criticism
References
Further reading
Constantin von Tischendorf, Monumenta sacra et profana I, pp. XIII-XIX, 1-48. Kurt Treu, Die Griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments in der UdSSR; eine systematische Auswertung des Texthandschriften in Leningrad, Moskau, Kiev, Odessa, Tbilisi und Erevan, T & U 91 (Berlin, 1966), pp. 18-19. U. B. Schmid, D. C. Parker, W. J. Elliott, The Gospel according to St. John: The majuscules (Brill 2007), pp. 52-58. [text of the codex in the Gospel of John]