Uncial 0233 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament. The manuscript paleographically had been assigned to the 8th-century.

Description

It contains a text of the four Gospels, on 93 parchment leaves (27 by 21 cm), with some lacunae. The text is written in two columns per page, 23-27 lines per page.^[1]

It is a palimpsest, the upper text was written in a minuscule hand, it is a Lectionary 1684.^[1] In result the manuscript has two texts of the New Testament, and it is classified on two different lists: on the list of uncials and on the list of lectionaries.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type heavily interpolated by the Byzantine readings. Kurt Aland placed it in Category III (with the profile of 47¹, 23², 3^1/2, 5^s).^[1]

Textual variants

(The words before the bracket are of UBS edition, the words after the bracket are the readings of the codex).

Matthew 2:21 – εισηλθεν ] ηλθεν (went) — D, L, W, 0250, f¹, f¹³, ℳ^[2]

Matthew 6:13 – it contains doxology^[3]

Matthew 11:2 – Χριστου ] Ιησου (supported by Codex Bezae, 1424, ℓ 241, and other)^[4]

History

It is dated by the Institute for New Testament Textual Research to the 8th-century.^[1][5]

The manuscript was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by Kurt Aland in 1954.^[6]

The codex used to be housed at the Bible Museum Münster (MS. 1), in the University of Münster.^[1][5]