Uncial 057

Uncial 057

New Testament manuscript
Text	Acts
Date	4th/5th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Berlin State Museums
Size	9 cm x 13 cm
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	I

Uncial 057 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated palaeographically to the 4th or 5th century.^[1]

Description

The codex contains a part of the Acts of Apostles (3:5-6,10-12), on a fragment of only one leaf (9 cm by 13 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 27 lines per page.^[1] The letters are small, about 2 mm high. C. R. Gregory added it to the list of New Testament manuscripts in 1908.^[2]

The Greek text of this codex is a good representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Kurt Aland placed it in Category I.^[1]

Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 4th or 5th century.^[3]

The codex now is located at the Berlin State Museums (P. 9808), in Berlin.^[1][3]

See also

• List of New Testament uncials
• Textual criticism

References

1. Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 119. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
2. Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 37.
3. "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 2 January 2018.

Further reading

• A. H. Salonius, Die griechischen Handschriftenfragmente des Neuen Testaments in den Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, ZNW 26 (1927), pp. 97-119.