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Uncial 062

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 30, 2021
Entity authorityQ370167 ↗
Source-derived summary

Uncial 062 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering) ε 64 (Soden), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament on parchment, dated palaeographically to the 5th century.

Description

The codex contains a part of the Epistle to the Galatians (4:15-5:14), survived only one leaf (22 cm by 18.5 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 33 lines per page. It is a palimpsest. The upper text is Arabic.

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

It is dated by the Institute for New Testament Textual Research to the 5th century.

The codex used to be located in Damascus, in Qubbat al-Khazna (Ms. E 7332).

See also

List of New Testament uncials

Textual criticism

References

Further reading

W. H. P. Hatch, An Uncial Fragment of the Gospels, HTR 23 (1930), pp. 149-152.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Uncial 062” as manuscript. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Uncial and manuscript.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1930—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Uncial and manuscript providing the first useful test.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 30, 2021. The linked authority identifier is Q370167. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1930.

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This entry incorporates text from “Uncial 062” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.