Uncial 0220

New Testament manuscripts
papyri • uncials • minuscules • lectionaries

Uncial 0220
Text	Romans 4:23-5:3; 5:8-13
Date	c. 300
Script	Greek
Found	Cairo, (purchase) Leland
Now at	Martin Schøyen Collection
Cite	W. H. P. Hatch, A Recently Discovered Fragment of the Epistle to the Romans, HTR 45 (1952): 81-85.
Size	1 leaf; 12 x 15 cm; 14 lines/page
Type	Alexandrian
Category	I
Hand	reformed documentary
Note	one deviation from Vaticanus in Rom. 5:1

Uncial 0220 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a leaf of a late third century Greek codex containing The Epistle to the Romans.

Description

Uncial 0220 measures 12 by 15 cm from a page of 14 lines. The recto (4:23-5:3) is legible, but little can be made out on the verso (5:8-12). The scribe wrote in a reformed documentary hand. The nomina sacra are written in an abbreviated way.

The Alands describe the text-type as "strict".

Uncial 0220 is an important early witness to the Alexandrian text-type, agreeing with Vaticanus everywhere except Rom. 5:1.^[1] It is classed as a "consistently cited witness of the first order" in the Novum Testamentum Graece.^[2] NA27 considers it even more highly than other witnesses of this type. It provides an exclamation mark (!) for "papyri and uncial manuscripts of particular significance because of their age."^[3]

The nomina sacra are written in an abbreviated way: ΚΝ ΙΥ ΙΝ ΧΥ ΘΥ.

History

Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 3rd century.^[4]

It was purchased at Cairo in 1950 by Leland C. Wyman,^[5] a professor of biology at Boston University. Later part of it was bought by Martin Schøyen and now part of it is housed in the Martin Schøyen Collection in Oslo, and part in London.

The text was published by William Hatch in the Harvard Theological Review in 1952.

See also

Other early uncials

• Uncial 0162
• Uncial 0171
• Uncial 0189
• Uncial 0301

Sortable lists

• List of New Testament uncials
• List of New Testament papyri

Related articles

• Textual criticism
• Biblical manuscript

References

1. ^ Philip W Comfort and David P Barrett, The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts, (Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers Incorporated, 2001), 696-697.
2. ^ Eberhard Nestle, Erwin Nestle, Barbara Aland and Kurt Aland (eds), Novum Testamentum Graece, 27th edition, (Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2001), 60.
3. ^ NA27:58.
4. ^ "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php. Retrieved 22 April 2011. 
5. ^ Bruce M. Metzger, Bart D. Ehrman, The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration, Osford 2005, p. 86.

External links

• The Schøyen Collection

Further reading

• William H. P. Hatch, A Recently Discovered Fragment of the Epistle to the Romans, HTR 45 (1952), pp. 81-85.
• Comfort, Philip W.; David P. Barrett (2001). The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts. Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers. pp. 696–697. ISBN 978-0-8423-5265-9.