Uncial 0321 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 2 (Soden), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated paleographically to the 5th-century. The manuscript has survived in very fragmentary condition.
Description The codex contains a small part of the Gospel of Matthew 14:13-16.19-23; 24:37-25:1.32-45 on 3 parchment leaves of size . The text is written in two columns per page, 27 lines per page.
The uncial letters are written separately, without breathings (rough breathing, smooth breathing) and accents. The initial letters are written on the margin. There is a punctuation and signs of interrogative. It does not use Iota subscriptum.Eduard de Muralt, Catalogue des manuscrits grecs de la Bibliothèque Impériale publique (Petersburg 1864), pp. 4–5. The errors of itacism occur rarely, it uses N ephelkystikon, the abbreviations are used rarely. The text is divided according to the (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin.
It is a palimpsest, the upper text was written in the 10th century in Georgian language it contains calendar.
The Greek text of this codex is mixed, influenced by the Byzantine text-type. Aland and Barbara Aland placed it in Category III.Kurt Aland et Barbara Aland, The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism, trans. Erroll F. Rhodes, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1995, p. 119.
History The manuscript is dated on the palaeographical ground to the 5th-century. Probably it was brought from Sinai by Constantin von Tischendorf. Gregory catalogued it as Uncial 067 on his list. After re-examination made by Pasquale Orsini it is clear that it is different manuscript.P. Orsini, Manoscritti in maiuscola biblica. Materiali per un aggiornamento, Cassino, Edizioni dell’Università degli Studi di Cassino (2005), p. 296. In 2010 it was catalogued by the INTF separately as 0321.
The manuscript was examined by Tischendorf, who edited its text in 1846.Constantin von Tischendorf, Monumenta sacra et profana I (Leipzig: 1846), pp. XIII-XIX, 3-34. It was also examined and described by Eduard de Muralt,Eduard de Muralt, Catalogue des manuscrits grecs de la Bibliothèque Impériale publique (Petersburg 1864), pp. 4–5. Kurt Treu,Kurt Treu, Die Griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments in der USSR; eine systematische Auswertung des Texthandschriften in Leningrad, Moskau, Kiev, Odessa, Tbilisi und Erevan, T & U 91 (Berlin: 1966), pp. 23–24. and recently by Pasquale Orsini.
It is currently housed at the Russian National Library (Suppl. Gr. 6 III, fol. 10-12) in Saint Petersburg.
See also List of New Testament uncials Biblical manuscript Textual criticism Uncial 0322
References
Further reading
Constantin von Tischendorf, Monumenta sacra et profana I (Leipzig: 1846), pp. XIII-XIX, 3-34. Kurt Treu, Die Griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments in der USSR; eine systematische Auswertung des Texthandschriften in Leningrad, Moskau, Kiev, Odessa, Tbilisi und Erevan, T & U 91 (Berlin: 1966), pp. 23–24. Eduard de Muralt, Catalogue des manuscrits grecs de la Bibliothèque Impériale publique (Petersburg 1864), pp. 4–5. P. Orsini, Manoscritti in maiuscola biblica. Materiali per un aggiornamento, Cassino, Edizioni dell’Università degli Studi di Cassino, 2005 (Collana scientifica, Studi Archeologici, Artistici, Filologici, Letterari e Storici, 7).
External links Uncial 0321 at the Leuven Database of Ancient Books