Editing Codex Tischendorfianus II

::''For the similarly named manuscript [[Codex Tischendorfianus III]] [[Codex Tischendorfianus IV]]''
[[Image:Uncial_081,_2_Cor_1,20-24.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Fragment with text of 2 Cor 1:20-24]]

'''Codex Tischendorfianus II''' – designated by '''Uncial 081''' (in the [[Biblical manuscript#Gregory-Aland|Gregory-Aland numbering]]) α 1023 ([[Biblical manuscript#Von Soden|Soden]]),<sup>[1]</sup> – is a Greek [[uncial]] [[manuscript]] of the [[New Testament]], dated [[Paleography|paleographically]] to the 6th century.

== 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). The text is written in two columns per page, 18 lines per page,<sup>[2]</sup> in a large uncial letters.<sup>[3]</sup> It is elegantly written, without breathings and accents.<sup>[4]</sup> It uses [[Diaeresis (diacritic)|diaeresis]] (Ϊ and Ϋ).<sup>[3]</sup>

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. [[Kurt Aland|Aland]] placed it in [[Categories of New Testament manuscripts#Category II|Category II]].<sup>[2]</sup>

In 2 Corinthians 2:2 it contains reading και τις εστιν (as א<sup>2</sup> D F G Ψ) for και τις (as א* A B C [[Minuscule 81|81]]).<sup>[5]</sup>

== History ==
Currently it is dated by the [[INTF]] to the 6th century.<sup>[2]</sup><sup>[6]</sup>

[[Constantin von Tischendorf|Tischendorf]] brought this codex from the East to Petersburg in 1859.<sup>[3]</sup> Tischendorf briefly described it in ''Notitia editionis codicis Bibliorum Sinaitici'' (Leipzig, 1860).<sup>[7]</sup> It was examined by [[Eduard de Muralt]].<sup>[8]</sup> It was examined by [[Kurt Treu]] and [[Pasquale Orsini]].

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

== See also ==
* [[List of New Testament uncials]]
* [[Biblical manuscript]]
* [[Textual criticism]]

== References ==
* 1. Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 39.
* 2. Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara; Rhodes, Errol F. (trans.) (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 120. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
* 3. C. R. Gregory, "Textkritik des Neuen Testaments", Leipzig 1900, vol. 1, p. 118
* 4. F. H. A. Scrivener, A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament (London 1894), vol. 1, p. 184
* 5. NA26, p. 474
* 6. "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 21 April 2011.
* 7. C. von Tischendorf, Notitia editionis codicis Bibliorum Sinaitici (Leipzig 1860), p. 50.
* 8. E. de Muralt, Catalogue des manuscrits grecs de la Bibliothèque Impériale publique (Petersburg 1864)

== Further reading ==
* C. von Tischendorf, [http://books.google.pl/books?id=1CFMAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=#v=onepage&q&f=false ''Notitia editionis codicis Bibliorum Sinaitici''] (Leipzig 1860), p.&nbsp;50.
* [[Kurt Treu]], ''Die Griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments in der USSR; eine systematische Auswertung des Texthandschriften in Leningrad, Moskau, Kiev, Odessa, Tbilisi und Erevan'', T & U 91 (Berlin: 1966), pp.&nbsp;24–25.

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[[Category:Greek New Testament uncials]]
[[Category:6th-century biblical manuscripts]]
[[Category:National Library of Russia collection|Codex Tischendorfianus II]]
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