Uncial 0267 is a Greek

Greek language

Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...

 uncial

Uncial

Uncial is a majuscule script commonly used from the 3rd to 8th centuries AD by Latin and Greek scribes. Uncial letters are written in either Greek, Latin, or Gothic.-Development:...

 manuscript

Manuscript

A manuscript or handwrite is written information that has been manually created by someone or some people, such as a hand-written letter, as opposed to being printed or reproduced some other way...

 of the New Testament

New Testament

The New Testament is the second major division of the Christian biblical canon, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....

. Palaeographically

Palaeography

Palaeography, also spelt paleography is the study of ancient writing. Included in the discipline is the practice of deciphering, reading, and dating historical manuscripts, and the cultural context of writing, including the methods with which writing and books were produced, and the history of...

 it has been assigned to the 5th century.

Description

The codex contains a small part of the Gospel of Luke

Gospel of Luke

The Gospel According to Luke , commonly shortened to the Gospel of Luke or simply Luke, is the third and longest of the four canonical Gospels. This synoptic gospel is an account of the life and ministry of Jesus of Nazareth. It details his story from the events of his birth to his Ascension.The...

 8:25-27, on 1 parchment leaf (7 cm by 9.5 cm). Probably it was written in one column per page, 10 lines per page, in uncial letters.

Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 5th century.

Text

The text of this codex

Codex

A codex is a book in the format used for modern books, with multiple quires or gatherings typically bound together and given a cover.Developed by the Romans from wooden writing tablets, its gradual replacement...

 is too brief to determine its textual character. Aland

Kurt Aland

Kurt Aland was a German Theologian and Professor of New Testament Research and Church History. He founded the Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung in Münster and served as its first director for many years...

 did not placed it in any of Categories of New Testament manuscripts

Categories of New Testament manuscripts

New Testament manuscripts in Greek are categorized into five groups, according to a scheme introduced in 1981 by Kurt and Barbara Aland in Der Text des Neuen Testaments. The categories are based on how each manuscript relates to the various text-types. Generally speaking, earlier Alexandrian...

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Location

Currently the codex is housed at the Fundación Sant Lluc Evangelista

Fundación Sant Lluc Evangelista

The Fundación Sant Lluc Evangelista , was founded in 1952, in Barcelona, by Ramón Roca Puig , Spanish papyrolog and priest from Catalonia, who several times travelled to the Near East , where acquired some important ancient manuscripts.The collection contains works of the ancient authors, like:...

 (P. Barc., inv. n. 16) in Barcelona

Barcelona

Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...

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Further reading

• R. Roca-Puig, "Un pergamini grec de l'Evangeli de Sant Lluc", in: Miscel-lània Carles Cardó 30 (Barcelona, 1963), pp. 395-399
• R. Roca-Puig, "Dos fragmentos biblicos de la colección Papyri Barcinonensis", Helmantica: Rivista de humanidades clásicas 16 (Salamanca, 1965), pp. 139-144