Codex Tischendorfianus II

For the similarly named manuscript, see Codex Tischendorfianus III and Codex Tischendorfianus IV.

Codex Tischendorfianus II – designated by Uncial 081 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering) α 1023 (Soden),^[1] – is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated paleographically to the 6th century.

Uncial 081, 0285

New Testament manuscript
Fragment with text of 2 Cor 1:20-24
Name	Tischendorfianus II
Text	2 Cor 1:20-2:12
Date	6th century
Script	Greek
Found	1859, Tischendorf
Now at	Russian National Library
Size	28 x 23 cm
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	II
Hand	elegantly written

Description

The codex contains a small part of the Second Epistle to the Corinthians 1:20-2:12 on 2 parchment leaves (28 centimetres (11 in) by 23 centimetres (9.1 in)). The text is written in two columns per page, 18 lines per page,^[2] in a large uncial letters.^[3] It is elegantly written, without breathings and accents.^[4] It uses diaeresis (Ϊ and Ϋ).^[3]

This manuscript was a part of the same codex to which Uncial 0285 belonged.

The Greek text of this codex was influenced by the Alexandrian text-type with some alien readings. Aland placed it in Category II.^[2]

In 2 Corinthians 2:2 it contains reading και τις εστιν (as א² D F G Ψ) for και τις (as א* A B C 81).^[5]

History

Biblical scholar Constantin von Tischendorf brought this codex from the East to Petersburg in 1859.^[3] Tischendorf briefly described it in Notitia editionis codicis Bibliorum Sinaitici (Leipzig, 1860).^[6] It was examined by Eduard de Muralt,^[7] by Kurt Treu and by Pasquale Orsini.

Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 6th century.^[2][8]

The codex is now located at the Russian National Library (Gr. 9) in Saint Petersburg.^[2]

See also

• List of New Testament uncials
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism