Uncial 097

Uncial 097

New Testament manuscript
Page with text of Acts 12:39-43 (Tischendorf's facsimile)
Text	Acts of the Apostles 13:39-46
Date	7th-century
Script	Greek
Now at	Russian National Library
Size	26 x 21 cm
Type	mixed / Byzantine
Category	III / V

Uncial 097 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 1003 (Soden),^[1] is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated palaeographically to the 7th-century.^[2]

The codex contains a small part of the Acts of the Apostles 13:39-46, on one parchment leaf (26 cm by 21 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 18 lines per page, in large uncial letters. It is a palimpsest, the upper text was written in Georgian, in the 10th century.^[2]

The Greek text of this codex is mixed, but predominate the Byzantine element. Aland placed it with some hesitation in Category III (Category V?).^[2]

Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 7th-century.^[2][3]

The manuscript was examined by Constantin von Tischendorf, who published its text in facsimile edition.^[4] It was again examined by Kurt Treu.

The codex is located now at the Russian National Library (Gr. 18)^[5] in Saint Petersburg.^[2]

• List of New Testament uncials
• Textual criticism

• Constantin von Tischendorf, Monumenta sacra inedita I (Leipzig: 1855), pp. 39-40.
• Kurt Treu, Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments in der UdSSR; eine systematische Auswertung des Texthandschriften in Leningrad, Moskau, Kiev, Odessa, Tbilisi und Erevan, Texte und Untersuchungen 91 (Berlin, 1966), pp. 36-37.