Uncial 071

{{New Testament manuscript infobox

| form = Uncial

| number = 071

| image = Uncial 071 (Harvard10651397).JPG

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| caption=

| name = P. Oxy.III 0401

| sign =

| text = Matthew

| script = Greek

| date = 5th/6th century

| now at = Harvard University

| cite =

| size = 7 x 9.5 cm

| type = Alexandrian text-type

| cat = II

| hand =

| note =

}}

Uncial 071 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 015 (Soden),{{Cite book|last=Gregory|first=Caspar René|author-link=Caspar René Gregory|title=Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament|url=https://archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n49/mode/2up|year=1908|publisher=J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung|location=Leipzig|page=38}} is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated paleographically to the 5th or 6th century. It came from Oxyrhynchus.

Description

The codex contains a small part of the Gospel of Matthew 1:21-24; 1:25-2:2, on one parchment leaf (7 cm by 9.5 cm). It is written in one column per page, 13 lines per page.{{Cite book

| last1 = Aland

| first1 = Kurt

| author-link = Kurt Aland

| last2 = Aland

| first2 = Barbara

| author-link2 = Barbara Aland

| others = Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.)

| title = The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism

| publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

| year = 1995

| location = Grand Rapids

| page = [https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt/page/n141 119]

| url =https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt

| url-access = limited

| isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}

Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 5th or 6th century.{{Cite web |url=http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php?ObjID=20071 |title=Liste Handschriften |publisher=Institute for New Testament Textual Research |access-date=21 April 2011 |location=Münster}}

; Text

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type, in close relationship with Codex Sinaiticus, Vaticanus, and Dublinensis. Aland placed it in Category II.

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:: Verso

: [απο τ]ων [αμ]αρ[τιων αυ

: των τουτο δε ολον [γεγονεν

: ινα πληρωθη το ρη[θεν υ

: πο κυ δια του προφητ[ου λε

: γοντος ιδου η [θ] παρθενος

: εν γαστρι εξει και τεξετε

: υν και καλεσουσι το ονο

: μα αυτου Εμμανουηλ ο

: [εσ]τιν μεθερμηνευομε

: [νον] μεθ ημων ο θς εγερ

: [θεις δε] Ι[ω]σηφ απο του υπ

: [νου εποιη]σεν ως προς

: [εταξεν αυτ]ω ο αγγελ[ος

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:: Recto

: [νωσκεν] αυ[την εως ου ε

: [τεκεν υ]ν και εκαλεσε[ν το

: [ονο]μα αυτου Ιν του δε

: Ιυ γεννηθεντος εν βη

: θλεεμ της Ιουδαιας εν η

: μεραις Ηρωδου του βασι

: λεως ιδου μαγοι απο ανα

: τολων παραγενοντοεις

: Ιεροσολυμα λεγοντε [που

: εστιν ο τε[ι]χθεις βα[σιλευς

: των Ιουδαιων ει[δομεν

: γαρ αυτου το[ω αστερα εν

: [τ]η ανατο[λη]

; Textual variants

Matt 1:24

: εγερθεις (having been aroused) – א, B, C, Z, 071, f¹

: διεγερθεις (having been awakened) – C³, D, L, W, 087, f¹³, mss of the Byzantine text-type

Matt 1:25

: υἱὸν (a son) – א, B, Z, 071, f¹, f¹³, 33

: τὸν υἱὸν αὐτῆς τὸν πρωτότοκον (her firstborn son) – C, D, K, L (omit αὐτῆς), W, Δ, Π, 28, 565, 700, 892, 1009, 1010, 1071, 1079, 1195, 1216, 1230, 1241, 1242, 1365

; Present location

The codex is now located in the Semitic Museum (3735) at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Uncial 071

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