Uncial 0133


Uncial 0133, ε 83, is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated paleographically to the 9th century. Formerly it was labelled by Wg.

Description

The codex contains a parts of the Matthew 1:1-14; 5:3-19; 23:9-25:30; 25:43-26:26; 26:50-27:16; Mark 1:1-43; 2:21-5:1; 5:29-6:22; 10:51-11:13, on 29 parchment leaves. The text is written in two columns per page, 20 lines per page, in large uncial letters.
It contains numbers of the κεφαλαια, τιτλοι, the Ammonian Sections. It is very hard to read.
It is a palimpsest, the upper text is a menaeon. Formerly to this codex were included Uncial 0271, 0272 and 0273.
The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.
In Matthew 5:11 οι ανθρωποι along with g1, q, vgs, syrs,c; it has also additional ρημα.
In Matthew 26:7 – βαρυτιμου along with B, W, 089, 0255, f1, f13, Byz; the other manuscripts read πολυτιμου.

History

Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 9th century.
The text of menaion was written by Archbishop of Selymeria in 1431. The manuscript was discovered in 1881 by Abbott and Mahaffy in Blenheim Palace. Gregory in 1883 found two leaves more.
Puttick bought it in 1882 for the British Museum.
The codex is located now at the British Library in London.