Uncial 088

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| number = 088

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| text = 1 Cor 15:53-16:9; Tit 1:1-13

| script = Greek

| date = 5th/6th century

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| now at = Russian National Library

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| size = 23.5 x 20 cm

| type = Alexandrian text-type

| cat = II

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Uncial 088 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 1021 (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=39}} is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated paleographically to the 5th or 6th century.{{Cite book

| last = Aland

| first = 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/n142 120]

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

| url-access = limited

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

Description

To the present day survived only two parchment leaves of this codex (23.5 cm by 20 cm). The leaves are arranged in quarto in quire. They contain a small parts of the 1 Corinthians 15:53-16:9, and the Titus 1:1-13. The text is written in two columns per page, 24 lines per page, in very large uncial letters.{{Cite book

| last = Gregory

| first = Caspar René

| author-link = Caspar René Gregory

| title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments

| publisher = Hinrichs

| year = 1900

| location = Leipzig

| volume = 1

| page = 116

| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n129/mode/2up

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It is a palimpsest, the upper text is in Georgian from 10th century.

Text

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type with some alien readings. Aland placed it in Category II.

In 1 Corinthians 15:52 it reads εγερθησονται (as p46, Sinaiticus, B C Ψ 075 0121a 0243 Byz); other manuscripts read αναστησονται (as A D F G P);NA26, p. 470.

In 1 Corinthians 15:53 it has singular reading την αθανασιαν for αθανασιαν;

In 1 Corinthians 15:54 it lacks το φθαρτον τουτο ενδυσηται αφθαρσιαν και along with 0121a, 0243, 1175, 1739;

In 1 Corinthians 16:2 it has reading σαββατου (A, B, C, D, F, G, P, Ψ, 33) against σαββατων (075, 0121a, 0243, and Byzantine manuscripts);

History

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=20088 |title=Liste Handschriften |publisher=Institute for New Testament Textual Research |access-date=21 April 2011 |location=Münster}}

The text of the manuscript was edited by Constantin von Tischendorf.Constantin von Tischendorf, [https://archive.org/stream/Tischendorf.iv.monumentaSacraInedita.newcollection.subscript.6vols.1857-1870/02.MonumentaSacraInedita.NCVP.FragSacra.v2.Tischendorf.Subscript.1860.#page/n103/mode/2up Monumenta sacra inedita] I, pp. 45-48. It was examined and described by Kurt Treu.

The codex currently is located at the Russian National Library (Gr. 6, II, fol. 5-6) at Saint Petersburg.

Uncial 088

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