Uncial 0274 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), 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 (28 cm by 33 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 30 lines per page, in uncial letters.
Contents
The codex contains: Gospel of Mark 6:56-7:4; 7:6-9; 7:13-15; 7:17; 7:19-23; 7:29; 7:34-35; 8:3-4; 8:8-11; 9:20-22; 9:26-41; 9:43; 9:45; 9:47-10:1; 10:17-22.Kurt Aland, Synopsis Quattuor Evangeliorum. Locis parallelis evangeliorum apocryphorum et patrum adhibitis edidit, Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1996, p. XXVI.
Textual Missing Mark 7:16, 9:44 & 9:46.
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 (6569/6571) in Cairo.
See also
List of New Testament uncials Textual criticism
References
Further reading
J. M. Plumley and C. H. Roberts, "An Uncial Text of St. Mark in Greek from Nubia", JTS XXVII (1976), 34–45. W. H. C. Frend and I. A. Muirhead, "The Greek Manuscripts from the Cathedral of Q'asr Ibrim", Muséon 89 (1976), 43–49. G. M. Browne, "The Sunnati Mark", ZPE 66 (1986), 49–52.
External links
Uncial 0274 at the Wieland Willker, "Textual Commentary"