Uncial 091 in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 30 (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 Gospel of John 6:13 - 14:22-24, on one parchment leaf (32 cm by 28 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 23 lines per page, in large uncial letters. Letter iota is written with diaeresis.C. R. Gregory, "Textkritik des Neuen Testaments", Leipzig 1900, vol. 1, p. 89.
The Greek text of this codex has been called a representative of the Alexandrian text-type with some alien readings. Aland placed it in Category II.
In John 6:23 the reading (the Lord had given thanks) is omitted, as in codices D, a, d, e, syrc, syrs, arm, geo1.UBS3, pp. 344-345
In John 6:38 it has the Western reading εκ rather than the Alexandrian reading απο.
It does not have the Western reading πατρος following πεμψαντοσ με (father who sent me) in either 6:38 or 6:39.
At the end of John 6:40 it skips over και αναστησω αυτον εγω [εν] τη εσχατη ημερα (and I will resurrect him [on] the last day).
Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 6th-century.
The codex now is located at the Russian National Library (Gr. 279)Uncial 089 has a catalogue number Gr. 280 in the same library. in Saint Petersburg.
See also
List of New Testament uncials Textual criticism
References
Further reading
Caspar René Gregory, Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes III (Leipzig, 1909), p. 1063. U. B. Schmid, D. C. Parker, W. J. Elliott, The Gospel according to St. John: The majuscules (Brill 2007), pp. 110–114. [text of the codex]
External links Uncial 091 at the Wieland Willker, "Textual Commentary"