Uncial 0239


Uncial 0239, is a Greek-Coptic uncial manuscript of the New Testament. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 7th-century.

Description

The codex contains a small part of the Gospel of Luke 2:27-30,34, on one parchment leaf. The text is written in two columns per page, 25 lines per page, in uncial letters.
Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 7th-century.
It was written and found in Egypt in Fayyum.
The manuscript was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by Kurt Aland in 1954.
The Coptic text was published by Walter Ewing Crum in 1905. The Greek text was published by H. L. Heller.

Location

Currently the codex is housed at the British Library in London, with the shelf number Oriental 4717.

Text

The Greek text of this codex is mixed. Aland placed it in Category III.