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Name
  
Tischendorfianus II

Date
  
6th century

Size
  
28 x 23 cm

Text
  
2 Cor 1:20-2:12

Found
  
1859, Tischendorf

Script
  
Greek language

Codex Tischendorfianus II

Now at
  
Russian National Library

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Codex Tischendorfianus II – designated by Uncial 081 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering) α 1023 (Soden), – is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated paleographically to the 6th century.

Contents

Description

The codex contains a small part of the Second Epistle to the Corinthians 1:20-2:12 on 2 parchment leaves (28 centimetres (11 in) by 23 centimetres (9.1 in)). The text is written in two columns per page, 18 lines per page, in a large uncial letters. It is elegantly written, without breathings and accents. It uses diaeresis (Ϊ and Ϋ).

This manuscript was a part of the same codex to which Uncial 0285 belonged.

The Greek text of this codex was influenced by the Alexandrian text-type with some alien readings. Aland placed it in Category II.

In 2 Corinthians 2:2 it contains reading και τις εστιν (as א2 D F G Ψ) for και τις (as א* A B C 81).

History

Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 6th century.

Tischendorf brought this codex from the East to Petersburg in 1859. Tischendorf briefly described it in Notitia editionis codicis Bibliorum Sinaitici (Leipzig, 1860). It was examined by Eduard de Muralt. It was examined by Kurt Treu and Pasquale Orsini.

The codex now is located at the Russian National Library (Gr. 9) in Saint Petersburg.

References

Codex Tischendorfianus II Wikipedia