Uncial 066

New Testament manuscript

Uncial **066**
New Testament manuscript
Text	Acts 28
Date	6th-century
Script	Greek
Now at	Russian National Library
Size	25 x 20 cm
Type	Western text-type
Category	III

Uncial 066 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 1000 (Soden),^[1] is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 6th-century.

Description

The codex contains a small part of the Acts 28:8-17, on one parchment leaf (25 cm by 20 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 25 lines per page. It is a palimpsest. The upper text has a Georgian calendar.^[2]

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Western text-type, but it has some the Caesarean readings. Kurt Aland placed it in Category III.^[2]

Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 6th century.^[3]

Constantin von Tischendorf published its text.^[4]

It is currently housed at the Russian National Library (Suppl. Gr. 6, II, fol 4) in Saint Petersburg.^[2]^[3]

References

^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 38.
^ ^a ^b ^c 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. 119. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
^ ^a ^b "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 21 April 2011.
^ Tischendorf, Constantin von (1845). Monumenta Sacra Inedita. Nova collectio. Vol. I. Fragmenta Sacra Palimpsesta. Leipzig. pp. 43–44.