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Text
  
James 1:12-14,19-21

Script
  
Greek

Type
  
Byzantine text-type

Date
  
6th century

Size
  
29 cm by 20 cm

Now at
  
Westminster College, Cambridge

Uncial 0246 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 6th century.

Contents

Description

The codex contains a small part of the Epistle of James 1:12-14,19-21, on 1 parchment leaf (29 cm by 20 cm). Written in one columns per page, 27 lines per page, in uncial letters. Survived leaf is not complete.

It is a palimpsest, the upper text has not survived to the present day (ink vanished).

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

Location

Currently the codex is housed at the Westminster College (Mingana Georg. 7) in Cambridge.

Text

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.

References

Uncial 0246 Wikipedia