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'''Uncial 086''' (in the [[Biblical manuscript#Gregory–Aland|Gregory-Aland]] numbering), ε 35 ([[Biblical manuscript#Von Soden|Soden]]), is a [[Greek language|Greek]] — [[Coptic language|Coptic]] diglot, [[uncial]] [[codex]] of the [[New Testament]], dated [[Palaeography|paleographically]] to the 6th century.

== Description ==

The codex contains two small parts of the [[Gospel of John]] 1:23-26; 3:5-4:23-35.45-49 on 13 parchment leaves (27 cm by 23 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 20 and more lines per page.[1]

It is a [[palimpsest]], the upper text contains a Coptic tables and formulae.[1]

The Greek text of this [[codex]] is a mixed type. [[Kurt Aland|Aland]] placed it in [[Categories of New Testament manuscripts#Category III|Category III]].[1]

Currently it is dated by the [[INTF]] to the 6th century.[1][2]

The codex now is located at the [[British Library]] (Or. 5707) in [[London]].[1]

== See also ==
* [[List of New Testament uncials]]
* [[Coptic versions of the Bible]]
* [[Textual criticism]]

== References ==
* 1. Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 120. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.

* 2. "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research.

== Further reading ==

* [[Walter Ewing Crum|W. E. Crum]] & [[F. G. Kenyon]], ''Two Chapters of St John in Greek and Middle Egyptian'', JTS 1 (1899-1900), pp. 415–433.
* U. B. Schmid, [[David C. Parker|D. C. Parker]], W. J. Elliott, [https://books.google.com/books?id=QBSOiQyAJTYC&pg=PA81 ''The Gospel according to St. John: The majuscules''] (Brill 2007), pp. 81–107. [new reconstruction of the text of the codex]

== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090124134351/http://www-user.uni-bremen.de/~wie/TCG/Fragmentary-Uncials.pdf#page=10 Uncial 086] at the Wieland Willker, "Textual Commentary"

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[[Category:Greek New Testament uncials]]
[[Category:6th-century biblical manuscripts]]
[[Category:Greek-Coptic diglot manuscripts of the New Testament]]
[[Category:Palimpsests]]
[[Category:British Library oriental manuscripts]]

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