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Uncial 076

New Testament manuscript

Uncial 076

New Testament manuscript
Text	Acts
Date	5th /6th-century
Script	Greek
Now at	Pierpont Morgan Library
Size	17 x 15 cm
Type	Alexandrian text-type
Category	II

Uncial 076 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α¹⁰⁰⁸ (Soden), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated palaeographically to the 5th or 6th-century. Formerly it was labeled by י^a.^[1]

Survived only one parchment leaf (17 cm by 15 cm). The codex is written in two columns per page, 23 lines per page, 9-10 letters per line.^[2] It contains a part of the Acts of the Apostles (2:11-22) with some missing words or letters.^[1] It used breathings and accents. The nomina sacra are abbreviated. The Old Testament quotations are marked by inverted comma (>).

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type with some alien readings. Aland placed it in Category II.^[2] The most interesting readings occurs in 2:13 where fragment supports Codex Bezae against all other manuscripts.^[3]

Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 5th or 6th century.^[4]

The manuscript once belonged to Lord AmherstinNorfolk. In 1908/1909 Lord Amherst sold his library.^[1]

The codex is located now in the Pierpont Morgan Library (Pap. G. 8) at New York City.^[2]

• List of New Testament uncials
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism

• B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt, The Amherst Papyri, being an account of the Greek Papyri in the collection of Lord Amherst of Hackney at Didlington Hall, Norfolk I (London 1900), pp. 41–43.