Uncial 0274


Uncial 0274, is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 5th century.

Description

The codex contains a small parts of the Gospel of Mark 6-10, on 4 parchment leaves. The text is written in two columns per page, 30 lines per page, in uncial letters. It is a palimpsest.

Contents

The codex contains: Gospel of Mark 6:56-7:4.6-9.13-17.19-23.29-29.34-35; 8:3-4.8-11; 9:20-22.26-41; 9:43-10:1.17-22.
Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 5th century.

Text

The Greek text of this codex probably is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. According to Kurt and Barbara Aland it does not support the Byzantine text against the original, it agrees 6 times with the Byzantine when it has the same reading as the original text. It agrees 19 times with the original text against the Byzantine. It has 2 independent or distinctive readings. Alands placed it with hesitation in Category II.
Aland gave the following textual profile for it: 01 61/2 192 2S.

Location

After discovering it was held in Cairo. Currently the codex is housed at the Coptic Museum in Cairo.