The codex contains parts of the Gospel of Luke and Gospel of John, on 44 parchment leaves (37 by 28 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 35 lines per page.[1] The Coptic text is not completely identical with the Greek.[1] It is written in large, round, not compressed letters, in black ink. Pages have Coptic numbers.[2] It used Spiritus asper, Spiritus lenis, and accents, but often wrongly.[2] There are many itacistic errors.[3]
Probably it was written by a Coptic scribe. In Luke 13:21 he wrote βαβουσα instead of λαβουσα. In Luke 13:16 he used δεκαι instead of δεκα και.[4]
The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category III. The Coptic text is not completely identical with the Greek.[1]
It does not include the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) in the Coptic text. The Greek text has a lacuna in that place.
In Luke 23:34 omitted words are "And Jesus said: Father forgive them, they know not what they do." This omission is supported by the manuscripts Papyrus 75, Sinaiticusa, B, D*, W, Θ, 1241, ita, d, syrs, copsa, copbo.[5]
Historyedit
Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 6th century.[6]
Nine leaves of the codex (Luke 12:15-13:32; John 8:33-42), belonged once to Carl Gottfried Woide, who received them from Egypt.[2] They are known as Fragmentum Woideanum, they were designated by Ta or Twoi and were confused with Codex Borgianus. According to Tregelles they were parts of the same manuscript.[7]J.B. Lightfoot gave a reasons for thinking that this fragment was not originally a portion of Borgianus.
^"Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 23 April 2011.
^S. P. Tregelles, "An Introduction to the Critical study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures", London 1856, p. 180.
Further readingedit
H. Ford, Appendix ad editionem Novi Testamenti Graeci e Codice MS Alexandrino a C. G. Woide descripti (Oxford, 1799), pp. 52–62, 83.
E. Amélineau, Notice des manuscrits coptes de la Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris: 1985), pp. 373–374, 408-409. (Uncial 0124)
C. R. Gregory, "Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes", Leipzig 1900, vol. 1, p. 69 (0124), p. 75 (070).
U. B. Schmid, D. C. Parker, W. J. Elliott, The Gospel according to St. John: The majuscules (Brill 2007), pp. 61-65. [text of the codex in the Gospel of John]
K. Wessely, Studien zur Paläographie und Papyruskunde (Amsterdam 1966)
External linksedit
Uncial 070 at the Wieland Willker, "Textual Commentary"