It stands in codex A (Alexandrinus), and in at least ten other uncial and very many cursive MSS.
Now the whole forty-two chapters of this Life, together with the Sermon, are engrossed throughout, in a careful and upright uncial script.
Like the well-written literary papyri, the early vellum uncial codices of the Bible, being inscribed with calligraphic formality, avoided in principle the use of abbreviations.
Throughout the career of the uncial codices down to the 6th century, continuity of text was maintained.
Septuagint Scriptures in Greek in uncial letters, which belonged to the library of the patriarchs of Alexandra.
The first in uncial Greek was by Tisisthenes, the son to whom the writing was addressed.
To solve my doubts I took up the potsherd and began to read the close uncial Greek writing on it; and very good Greek of the period it is, considering that it came from the pen of an Egyptian born.
And now there remained but one more document to be examined--namely, the ancient black-letter transcription into mediæval Latin of the uncial inscription on the sherd.
Mediæval Black-Letter Latin Translation of the Uncial Inscription on the Sherd of Amenartas Amenartas e gen.
In the latter class he possessed an ancient bilingual copy of St. Paul's Epistles, a Livy in uncial characters, and the precious fragments of the Vatican Virgil, which he gave to Fulvio Orsini in his lifetime.
Lord Oxford secured a 'Lucian' in uncial characters, and a splendid Missal illuminated for Henry VII.
In the Bodleian library there is a third example, written in quarto with large uncial letters in double columns, in much the same style as the book given by Parker to Corpus Christi.
It is a most splendid specimen of the uncial class of Evangelistaria, and its text presents many instructive variations.
All critics are agreed in distinguishing the documents written in the uncial character by capital letters; the custom having originated in the accidental circumstance that the Codex Alexandrinus was designated as Cod.
The cursive Evangelistarium written over the uncial is noticed below, and bears the mark 200*.
The Prolegomena are especially valuable; the uncial type does not aim at being an imitation, but the facsimile faithfully represents the original, even to the present colour of the ink.
We proceed to describe in detail the uncial manuscripts of the Greek Testament, arranged separately as copies of the Gospels, of the Acts and Catholic Epistles, of the Pauline Epistles, and of the Apocalypse.
The uncial codices of the Gospels amount to one hundred and six, those of the Acts and Epistles only to seven or eight, but probably to more in either case, since all is not known about some of the Codd.
And all the letters at the commencement of the verses shall be illuminated with good azure and vermillion; and all the letters at the beginning of the Nocturns shall be great uncial (unciales) letters, containing V.
The most ancient uncial ink writing extant, belongs to the fourth century, whilst the earliest mixed uncial and miniscule writing pertains to the sixth century.
A greater facility in writing, due to the gradual reduction in size of the uncial (inch) letters was thereby attained.
Part of a poem in Greek written in large uncial characters is still legible on the single leaf of a pair of tablets from Memphis in Egypt, which is now in the British Museum.
They are written in fine bolduncial characters without illumination or ornament of any kind on rolls of papyrus nine or ten inches in breadth.
It was a sixth-century copy of the Book of Genesis, written in uncial letters and illustrated, we are told, with 250 pictures.
Another treasure of ancient times which was once at St. Denis is the sixth-century uncial Greek MS.
Among them is an old leaf of the Greek Septuagint, written in uncial or capital letters.
The half-uncial letters of English type are by different hands, and the miniatures are of different dates, that of the Lion of St. Mark being probably of the tenth century.
Around the margin is a legend in old Latin uncial letters, "Jesus Christ the judge of equity.
A very fair specimen this, be it remarked in passing, of the concordia discors which prevails in the most ancient uncial copies[179].
What persuades so many critics to omit the precious words [Greek: kai eipen, Ouk oidate hoiou pneumatos este hymeis], is the discovery that these words are absent from many uncial MSS.
The use of Uncial letters is observed to have been retained in documents of this class to a later period than in the case of the Evangelia, viz.
The clear and beautifully-shaped Irish round hand is closely akin to the half-uncial character of fifth and sixth century Latin writings found on the Continent.
This new writing was in two forms--round and pointed--but both were derived from the Roman half-uncial style.
He abandons the practice of making a distinction between uncial and minuscule, on the ground that for textual criticism the style of writing is less important than the date and contents of a MS.
Over the loculus the following Greek inscription in uncial characters was found in a state of good preservation, with the exception of two letters: "[See drawing of inscription on this page, made from photographs in our possession.
Creme d'asperge a la Reine in his neat writing, the letters distinct from one another--almost like an inscription in Uncial Greek character, one might have fancied.
Secondly, because ye can not find the words in any copy written in the uncial text, before the recent, running Greek text came into common use.
Ye have many uncial copies here: see whether any of them contain the words.
From V, the lapidary and capital form, the uncial and cursive forms U and u were developed, gradually V becoming appropriated as the symbol for the consonant, and the medial form u as the symbol for the vowel.
And all the letters at the commencement of the verses shall be illuminated with good azure and vermilion; and all the letters at the beginning of the Nocturns shall be great uncial (unciales) letters, containing V.
In the lower-case letters, in which the text is written, the legibility is evident; but the classical derivation through the uncial form of writing is not equally manifest.
These will serve well as initials when using the Irish half-uncial characters for writing with.
He should, as opportunity occurs, examine carefully some of the fine uncial manuscripts, or at any rate some good reproductions of them.
It is written in uncial characters and contains, amongst other things, a portrait of Juliana.
This gradually came to be used as a book-hand, until soon very few of the early uncial forms were left.
On the Continent the hand was developed from the Roman cursive writing, while in England and Ireland the Roman Half-Uncial was the starting-point of development.
The uncial characters shown here (a) afford one of the best examples for practice in writing with the reed or quill.
We may now proceed to some specimen instances exhibiting the superiority of the Later Uncial and Cursive text.
The change from uncial to cursive letters about the tenth century is most remarkable.
It is discovered that there was no uncial period through which the genealogy of cursives has necessarily passed.
By consequence, it is popularly supposed that since we are possessed of such Uncial Copies, we could afford to dispense with the testimony of the Cursives altogether.
These tails were also used in the earlier Uncial shown in fig.
This type of letter may be regarded as a link between the Half-Uncial and the Roman Small-Letter (see p.
The main types are the "round" Uncial and Half-Uncial, commonly written with an approximately "straight pen.
Tregelles' New Testament is, that he not merely states but cites the authority of the patristic writers to whom he appeals, and by a somewhat elaborate notation enables the reader at a glance to see how his uncial MSS.
Tregelles for the text of the Revelation and that which he has pursued throughout the elaborate work now before us, that in the former he was either content or only able at that time to give the evidence of the few Uncial MSS.
Tregelles will show us in his appendix that he has done the same, as [Hebrew: Aleph] agrees with all the uncial MS.
In preparing his work on the text of the Revelation, he found it necessary to collate the Uncial MSS.
Tregelles has copied with his own hand, and all the rest of the uncial MSS.
Tischendorf had been mere slaves of the few uncial MSS.
Here strong uncial authority governs Tregelles, and the disposition to prefer the less usual or less common form has influenced Dr.
