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Uncial 055

Uncial 055 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated paleographically to the 11th century. The codex contains a commentary with incomplete text of the four Gospels, on 303 parchment leaves (26 cm by 19.5 cm).^[1]

The commentaries are placed in the Western order (Matthew, John, Luke, Mark). Three first Gospels used commentaries of Chrysostom, Gospel of Mark – Victorin's commentary.^[2]

The text is written in one column per page, 37 lines per page.^[1]

The manuscript is written in semi-uncial variously listed as an uncial and a minuscule, is reported as "very peculiar in its style and beautifully written". Hermann von Soden did not include it in his catalog. According to some scholars it is a commentary rather, but not a manuscript of New Testament.

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type, but Aland did not placed it in any Category.^[1] It is one of very few uncial manuscripts not cited in Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece.

Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 11th century.^[3]

The manuscript was examined by Scholz, Burgon,^[4] and Paulin Martin.^[5] C. R. Gregory saw it in 1885.^[2]

Formerly the manuscript was housed at the Dominus du Fresne.^[2] Currently the codex is located at the National Library of France (Gr. 201) in Paris.^[1]

• List of New Testament uncials
• Textual criticism

• J. Burgon, The last Twelve Verses of Mark (London, 1871), pp. 282-287.

• Robert Waltz, Codex 055: at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism.