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{{New Testament manuscript infobox
| form   = Uncial
| number = '''0321'''
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| text   = [[Gospel of Matthew]] †
| script = [[Greek language|Greek]]
| date   = 5th-century
| found  = Sinai
| now at = [[Russian National Library]]
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| size   = {{convert|20|xx|15.5|cm|in|1|abbr=on}}
| type   = mixed
| cat    = III
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'''Uncial 0321''' (in the [[Caspar René Gregory|Gregory]]-[[Kurt Aland|Aland]] numbering), ε 2 ([[Biblical manuscript#Von Soden|Soden]]),<ref name = Soden>{{Cite book|last=Soden, von|first=Hermann|author-link=Hermann, Freiherr von Soden|title=Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte|volume=1|year=1902|publisher=Verlag von Alexander Duncker|location=Berlin|pages=118–119}}</ref> is a [[Greek language|Greek]] [[uncial]] [[manuscript]] of the [[New Testament]], dated [[Palaeography|paleographically]] to the 5th-century. The manuscript has survived in very fragmentary condition.
== Description ==
The codex contains a small part of the [[Gospel of Matthew]] 14:13-16.19-23; 24:37-25:1.32-45 on 3 parchment leaves of size {{convert|20|xx|15.5|cm|in|1|abbr=on}}. The text is written in two columns per page, 27 lines per page.<ref name = INTF>{{Cite web | url = http://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/liste/?ObjID=20321 | title = Liste Handschriften | publisher = Institute for New Testament Textual Research | access-date = 14 August 2020 | location = Münster}} </ref>
The uncial letters are written separately, without breathings ([[rough breathing]], [[smooth breathing]]) and accents. The initial letters are written on the margin. There is a punctuation and signs of interrogative. It does not use [[Iota subscript]]um.<ref name = Muralt>[[Eduard de Muralt]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=dc4WAAAAQAAJ ''Catalogue des manuscrits grecs de la Bibliothèque Impériale publique''] (Petersburg 1864), pp. 4–5.</ref> The errors of [[itacism]] occur rarely, it uses [[N ephelkystikon]], the abbreviations are used rarely.<ref name = Muralt/> The text is divided according to the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''chapters''), whose numbers are given at the margin.<ref name = Muralt/>
It is a [[palimpsest]], the upper text was written in the 10th century in [[Georgian language|Georgian]] language it contains calendar.<ref name = INTF/>
The Greek text of this [[codex]] is mixed, influenced by the [[Byzantine text-type]]. [[Kurt Aland|Aland]] and [[Barbara Aland]] placed it in [[Categories of New Testament manuscripts#Category III|Category III]].<ref name = Aland>Kurt Aland et [[Barbara Aland]], ''The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism'', trans. Erroll F. Rhodes, [[William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company]], Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1995, p. 119.</ref>
== History ==
The manuscript is dated on the palaeographical ground to the 5th-century.<ref name = INTF/> Probably it was brought from [[Sinai Peninsula|Sinai]] by [[Constantin von Tischendorf]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.trismegistos.org/ldab/text.php?tm=61748 |title=LDAB ID: 2900 |publisher=Leuven Database of Ancient Books}}</ref> Gregory catalogued it as [[Uncial 067]] on his list. After re-examination made by [[Pasquale Orsini]] it is clear that it is different manuscript.<ref name = Orsini>P. Orsini, ''Manoscritti in maiuscola biblica. Materiali per un aggiornamento, Cassino, Edizioni dell’Università degli Studi di Cassino'' (2005), p. 296.</ref>
In 2010 it was catalogued by the [[INTF]] separately as 0321.<ref name = INTF/>
The manuscript was examined by Tischendorf, who edited its text in 1846.<ref>Constantin von Tischendorf, ''Monumenta sacra et profana'' I (Leipzig: 1846), pp. XIII-XIX, 3-34.</ref> It was also examined and described by [[Eduard de Muralt]],<ref>Eduard de Muralt, [https://books.google.com/books?id=dc4WAAAAQAAJ ''Catalogue des manuscrits grecs de la Bibliothèque Impériale publique''] (Petersburg 1864), pp. 4–5.</ref> [[Kurt Treu]],<ref>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. 23–24.</ref> and recently by Pasquale Orsini.<ref name = Orsini/>
It is currently housed at the [[Russian National Library]] (Suppl. Gr. 6 III, fol. 10-12) in [[Saint Petersburg]].<ref name = INTF/>
== See also ==
* [[List of New Testament uncials]]
* [[Biblical manuscript]]
* [[Textual criticism]]
* [[Uncial 0322]]
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
== Further reading ==
* [[Constantin von Tischendorf]], ''Monumenta sacra et profana'' I (Leipzig: 1846), pp.&nbsp;XIII-XIX, 3-34.
* [[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;23–24.
* [[Eduard de Muralt]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=dc4WAAAAQAAJ ''Catalogue des manuscrits grecs de la Bibliothèque Impériale publique''] (Petersburg 1864), pp.&nbsp;4–5.
* P. Orsini, ''Manoscritti in maiuscola biblica. Materiali per un aggiornamento, Cassino, Edizioni dell’Università degli Studi di Cassino'', 2005 (Collana scientifica, Studi Archeologici, Artistici, Filologici, Letterari e Storici, 7).
== External links ==
* [http://www.trismegistos.org/ldab/text.php?tm=61748 Uncial 0321] at the ''[[Leuven Database of Ancient Books]]''
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