Size 17 x 15 cm Category II | Date 5th /6th-century Type Alexandrian text-type | |
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Uncial 076 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α1008 (Soden), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated palaeographically to the 5th or 6th-century. Formerly it was labeled by יa.
Contents
Description
Survived only one parchment leaf (17 cm by 15 cm). The codex is written in two columns per page, 23 lines per page, 9-10 letters per line. I contains a part of the Acts of the Apostles (2:11-22) with some missing words or letters. It used breathings and accents. The nomina sacra are abbreviated. The Old Testament quotations are marked by inverted comma (>).
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. The most interesting readings occurs in 2:13 where fragment supports Codex Bezae against all other manuscripts.
History
Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 5th or 6th century.
The manuscript once belonged to Lord Amherst in Norfolk. In 1908/1909 Lord Amherst sold his library.
The codex is located now in the Pierpont Morgan Library (Pap. G. 8) at New York City.