Description
Uncial 0171 measures 5.7 cm by 9.2 cm from a page of two columns of 23 lines. The scribe wrote in a reformed documentary hand. It has errors of itacism, the nomina sacra are contracted (ΚΣ, ΙΗΣ). ανθρωπος is uncontracted.
Luke 22:51 and 22:62 are omitted.
The Alands describe the text as "an early (secondary?) form of the D text" and "paraphrastic". Uncial 0171 is an important witness to the existence of the Western text-type in Egypt. Aland placed it in Category IV. It is the earliest Greek witness with text of Luke 22:43–44.
It is classed as a "consistently cited witness of the first order" in the Novum Testamentum Graece. NA27 considers it even more highly than other witnesses of this type. It provides an exclamation mark (!) for "papyri and uncial manuscripts of particular significance because of their age."
The manuscript was found in 1903-1905 in Hermopolis Magna. The text was first published by the Società Italiana in Florence in 1912.
Hermann von Soden knew the first fragment only in time to include it in the list of addenda in 1913. He classified it within his Ια text.
Lagrange gave a collation, he classifies the fragment in his "recension D", and argues that the divergences of the fragment from the Codex Bezae are due to idiosyncrasies either of that manuscript or of the fragment itself.
Kurt Treu identified the Matthew and Luke portions as the work of the same scribe on the same codex. Later again, Neville Birdsall observed that a lower portion of the manuscript had been overlooked in the editio princeps.
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