Description
The codex contains parts of the Hebrews 1:1-4:3; 12:20-13:25 on two parchment leaves (26 cm by 21 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 45 lines per page, in small semi-uncial letters, in red ink (hence Codex Ruber). The accents and notes of aspiration are carefully marked, but the iota subscriptum nowhere occurs. The Iota adscriptum occurs three times, ν εφελκυστικον is rare. The interrogative (;) occurs once (Heb 3:7), and inverted comma (>) is often repeated to mark quotations.
The letters are a little unusual in form small, and their character is between uncial and minuscule, and in the 19th century codex was classified as minuscule manuscript (catalogue number 53). Tregelles argued that they are more uncials by character, they are almost entirely separate, and sometimes joined in the same word. "They are certainly by no means cursive, in the common acceptation of the term". According to Scrivener they "can hardly be called semicursive". According to Günther Zuntz it is an uncial manuscript, its letters are that kind of uncial script, which scribes of the 10th and later centuries.
Size is the same like in Uncial 0121a, the number of lines is almost the same, and characters of letters are similar, therefore they were ascribed and classified as the same manuscript (f.e. F. H. A. Scrivener). They received catalogue number 0121 in system Gregory-Aland. Now after more accurate examination, it is sure, they belonged to the different manuscripts.
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