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| Codex Sinaiticus |
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Codex Sinaiticus (Shelfmarks and references: London, Brit. Libr., Additional Manuscripts 43725; Gregory-Aland nº א [Aleph] or 01, [Soden δ 2]) is an ancient hand-written copy of the Greek Bible. It is an Alexandrian text-type manuscript written in...
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| Voynich manuscript |
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The Voynich manuscript is a mysterious, undeciphered illustrated book. It is thought to have been written in the 15th or 16th century. The author, script, and language of the manuscript remain unknown.
Over its recorded existence, the Voynich...
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| Dead Sea scrolls |
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The Dead Sea scrolls consist of about 900 documents, including texts from the Hebrew Bible, discovered between 1947 and 1956 in eleven caves in and around the Qumran Wadi near the ruins of the ancient settlement of Khirbet Qumran, on the northwest...
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| Halliwell Manuscript |
The Halliwell Manuscript, also known as the Regius Poem, is the first known Masonic text. It consists of 64 written pages in poetic form.
The general consensus on the age of the document dates its writing to around 1390. The manuscript was...
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| Codex Vaticanus |
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The Codex Vaticanus (The Vatican, Bibl. Vat., Vat. gr. 1209; no. B or 03 Gregory-Aland, δ 1 von Soden), is one of the oldest and most respected extant manuscripts of the Greek Bible (Old and New Testament), with three lacunae. The codex is named for...
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| Codex Argenteus |
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The Codex Argenteus (or "Silver Bible") is a 6th century manuscript, originally containing bishop Ulfilas's 4th century translation of the Bible into the Gothic language. Of the original 336 folia, 188 (including the Speyer fragment discovered in...
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| Book of Veles |
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The Book of Veles (also: Veles Book, Vles book, Vlesbook, Isenbeck's Planks, Велесова книга, Велесова књига, Велес книга, Книга Велеса, Дощечки Изенбека, Дощьки Изенбека) is claimed to be a text of ancient Slavic religion and history written on...
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| Book of Durrow |
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The Book of Durrow (Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS A. 4. 15. (57)) is a 7th-century illuminated manuscript in the Insular style. A Gospel Book, it was made either at Durrow Abbey near Durrow in County Offaly, Ireland, or in Northumbria in...
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| Vienna Genesis |
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The Vienna Genesis (Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, cod. theol. gr.31) is an illuminated manuscript, probably produced in Syria in the first half of the 6th Century. It is the oldest well-preserved, surviving, illustrated biblical codex....
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| Book of Cerne |
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The Book of Cerne (Cambridge University Library, MS Ll. 1. 10) is a ninth century Anglo-Saxon prayer book. It was apparently made between 820 and 840 for Bishop Æthelwold of Lichfield (818-30). It is the only surviving illuminated manuscript that...
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| Book of Dimma |
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The Book of Dimma (Dublin, Trinity College, MS.A.IV.23) is an 8th-century Irish pocket Gospel Book originally from the Abbey of Roscrea, founded by St. Cronan in the County Tipperary, Ireland. In addition to the four Gospels, in between the Gospels...
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| Book of Mulling |
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Book of Moling |
The Book of Mulling or less commonly, Book of Moling (Dublin, Trinity College Library MS 60 (A. I. 15)), is an Irish pocket Gospel Book from the late 8th century. The text collection includes the four Gospels, a liturgical service which includes the...
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| Book of Nunnaminster |
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The Book of Nunnaminster (London, British Library, Harley MS 2965) is a 9th century Anglo-Saxon prayerbook. It was written in the kingdom of Mercia, using an "insular" hand (as used in the British Isles), related to Carolingian minuscule. It was...
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| Codex Leicester |
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The Codex Leicester (previously known as Codex Hammer) is a collection of largely scientific writings by Leonardo da Vinci. The codex is named after Thomas Coke, later created Earl of Leicester, who purchased it in 1717. Of Leonardo's 30 scientific...
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| Bower Manuscript |
The Bower Manuscript is a Sanskrit-language manuscript written in the Brahmi alphabet. It was purchased by Hamilton Bower in Kucha from Haji Ghulam Qadir. Bower forwarded the manuscript, made up of 51 birch-bark leaves, to the Asiatic Society of...
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| Book of the Bee |
The Book of the Bee is an historical/theological compilation containing numerous bible legends. It was written by Syrian Nestorian Solomon, Bishop of Bassora (c. 1222). It was written in Syriac.
The Book of the Bee is a collection of theological and...
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| Caedmon manuscript |
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MS Junius 11 (Caedmon or Junius manuscript) is one of the four major Anglo-Saxon literature codices. It contains works known by the titles Genesis, Exodus, Daniel, and Christ and Satan.
The manuscript is in the Bodleian Library at the University of...
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| Ellesmere manuscript |
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The Ellesmere Chaucer, or Ellesmere Manuscript is an early 15th century illuminated manuscript of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, held in the Huntington Library, in San Marino, California (MS EL 26 C 9). It is considered one of the most...
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| Hengwrt manuscript |
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The Hengwrt Chaucer manuscript is an early 15th century manuscript of the Canterbury Tales, held in the National Library of Wales, in Aberystwyth, where it is known as MS Peniarth 392D.
This was one of the collection of manuscripts amassed at the...
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| Manuscript 5229 |
MS 5229 is a 13th century (7th century Hijra) manuscript, 210 folia (420 pages), kept in Astane Quds Museum (موزهٔ آستان قدس رضوی), Mashhad. It was discovered in 1923 in Mashhad by Turkic scholar Ahmed Zeki Validi Togan. It contains a collection of...
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| Manuscript 3227a |
The codex Nürnberger Handschrift GNM 3227a (169 folia) is a manuscript dating from around 1389, preserved today in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg (Nürnberg). It is frequently attributed to Hanko Döbringer.
It contains recipes for a...
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| Fitzwilliam Virginal Book |
The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book is a primary source of keyboard music from the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods in England, i.e., the late Renaissance and very early Baroque. It takes its name from Viscount Fitzwilliam who bequeathed this...
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| Book of Taliesin |
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The Book of Taliesin (Welsh: Llyfr Taliesin) is one of the most famous of Middle Welsh manuscripts, dating from the first half of the 14th century though many of the fifty-seven poems it preserves are taken to originate in the 10th century. The...
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| Hendregadredd manuscript |
The Hendregadredd Manuscript (Welsh: Llawysgrif Hendregadredd), is a medieval Welsh manuscript containing an anthology the poetry of the Poets of the Princes. It was rediscovered in 1910 after disappearing in the early nineteenth century. It was...
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| Heracles Papyrus |
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The Heracles Papyrus (Oxford, Sackler Library, Oxyrhynchus Pap. 2331) is a fragment of 3rd century Greek manuscript of a poem about the Labors of Heracles. It contains three unframed colored line drawings of the first of the Labors, the killing of...
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| Book of Hours |
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Milan, Biblioteca Trivulziana, Cod. 470 is a 15th century Book of Hours. It was made in a French-Burgundian scriptorium. It measures 131 by 89 mm and has 366 folios. The text is written in Textualis Gothic bookscript. There are twenty grisaille...
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| Eton Choirbook |
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The Eton Choirbook (Eton College MS. 178) is a richly illuminated manuscript collection of English sacred music composed during the late fifteenth century. It was one of very few collections of Latin liturgical music to survive the Reformation, and...
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| Old Hall Manuscript |
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The Old Hall Manuscript (British Library, Additional MS 57950) is the largest, most complete, and most significant source of English sacred music of the late 14th and early 15th centuries, and as such represents the best source for late Medieval...
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| Bryennios manuscript |
Bryennios manuscript, also known as Codex Hierosolymitanus, is an early Christian Bible manuscript, discovered in 1873. It includes a list of the 27 canonical book Old Testament, in Greek, Aramaic and Hebrew, similar to Epiphanius' canon. J.-P....
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| Codex Brixianus |
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The Codex Brixianus (Brescia, Biblioteca Civica Queriniana, s.n.), designated by f, is a 6th century Latin Gospel Book which was probably produced in Italy. The manuscript contains 419 folios. The text, written on purple dyed vellum in silver ink,...
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| Stockholm Codex Aureus |
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The Stockholm Codex Aureus (also known as the "Codex Aureus of Canterbury") is an Insular Gospel book written in the mid-eighth century in Southumbria, probably in Canterbury, and is now in the Swedish Royal Library at Stockholm. Southumbria...
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| Heiligenstadt Testament |
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The Heiligenstadt Testament is a letter written by Ludwig van Beethoven to his brothers Carl and Johann at Heiligenstadt (today part of Vienna) on 6 October 1802. It reflects his despair over his increasing deafness and his desire to overcome his...
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| The New Grove Dictionary of Opera |
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The New Grove Dictionary of Opera is an encyclopedia of opera, considered to be one of the best general reference sources on the subject. It is the largest work on opera in English, and in its printed form, amounts to 5,448 pages in four volumes....
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| Poppleton manuscript |
The Poppleton Manuscript is the name given to the fourteenth century codex likely compiled by Robert of Poppleton, a Carmelite friar who was the Prior of Hulne, near Alnwick. The manuscript contains numerous works, such as a map of the world (with...
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| Sri Lanka Portuguese Creole Manuscript |
The Sri Lanka Portuguese Creole Manuscript is a significant record of the Indo-Portuguese creole, as spoken in the 19th century among the Burgher and Kaffir communities. It a precious source for linguistic, literary, anthropological, and folkloric...
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| Matthew Cooke Manuscript |
In the history of Freemasonry, next to the Regius poem, the oldest known manuscript is the one known as the Matthew Cooke Manuscript.
The manuscript was published by R. Spencer, London, in 1861 and it was edited by Mr. Matthew Cooke￢ﾀﾔhence the...
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| Bakhshali Manuscript |
The Bakhshali Manuscript is an Ancient Indian mathematical manuscript written on birch bark which was found near the village of Bakhshali in 1881 in what was then the North-West Frontier Province of British India (in Pakistan since the Partition of...
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| Auchinleck manuscript |
The Auchinleck Manuscript, NLS Adv. MS 19.2.1, currently forms part of the collection of the National Library of Scotland. It is an illuminated manuscript copied on parchment nearly seven hundred years ago in London. The manuscript, or MS, provides...
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| Topkapi manuscript |
The term Topkapi manuscript refers to a very early manuscript of Qur'an, and this manuscript is currently kept in the Topkapi Museum, Istanbul, Turkey.
It is dated to the first or second century Hijra.
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| Vienna Coronation Gospels |
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See also Coronation Gospels for other manuscripts with the name
The Vienna Coronation Gospels, also known as the Treasury Gospels (Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Schatzkammer, Inv. XIII 18) is a late 8th Century illuminated Gospel Book....
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| Bauyn manuscript |
The Bauyn manuscript is a manuscript currently in possession of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris (catalogue number Rés. Vm7 674-675). It is, along with several printed collections and the Parville manuscript, one of the most important...
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| Parville manuscript |
The Parville manuscript is a manuscript currently in possession of the UC Berkeley Music Library (catalogue number MS-778; full number US-BEM 778). Along with the Bauyn manuscript, it is one of the most important sources for French harpsichord music...
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| Codex Bobiensis |
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Codex Bobiensis (k) is a fragmentary Latin manuscript of the bible. Specifically, it is an example of a Vetus Latina bible, which were used from the 2nd century until Jerome's Latin translation, the Vulgate, was written in the 5th century. The text...
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| Lorenzo Ferrero |
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Lorenzo Ferrero (born 1951 in Turin) is a contemporary Italian composer of orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal music, with a predilection for opera. He studied composition with Massimo Bruni and Enore Zaffiri at Turin Music Conservatory and...
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| Papyrus Graecus Holmiensis |
The Papyrus Graecus Holmiensis, which is also known as the Stockholm Papyrus, dates from perhaps the 3rd or 4th Century A.D. and reports chemical recipes in use in Egypt sometime between the 1st and 3rd centuries A.D. It is written in ancient Greek....
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| Armenian Illuminated manuscript |
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Armenian illuminated manuscripts form a separate tradition, related to other forms of Medieval Armenian art, but also to the Byzantine tradition. The earliest surviving examples date from the Golden Age of Armenian art and literature in the 5th...
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| Book of Steps |
The Book of Steps (Syriac: ܟܬܒܐ ܕܡܣ̈ܩܬܐ, Kṯāḇâ ḏ-Masqāṯâ; also known by the Latin name Liber Graduum) is an anonymous Syriac treatise on spiritual direction, probably written in the late fourth century AD (or possibly early fifth century). The...
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| Qur'an in the House of Manuscript in Sana'a |
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The Sana'a manuscripts, found in Yemen in 1972, are considered by some to be the oldest existent version of the Qur'an. Although the text has been dated to the first two decades of the eighth century carbon 14 tests indicate that some of the...
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| Book of Lismore |
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Book of Lismore, is an Irish vellum manuscript, compiled in early 15th century, Lismore, Ireland. Its original name was Leabhar Mhic Cárthaigh Riabhaigh (The Book of Mac Cárthaigh Riabhach). It should not be confused with the similarly-named Book of...
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| Göttingen manuscript |
The Göttingen manuscript is the earliest known work devoted entirely to modern chess. It is a Latin text of 33 leaves held at the University of Göttingen. A quarto parchment manuscript of 33 leaves, ff. 1–15a are a discussion of twelve chess...
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| Uncial 064 |
Uncial 064 designed by (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 10 (von Soden), is a Greek uncial codex of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Formerly it was labelled by Θ. Written in two columns per page,25 lines per page.
The manuscript contains...
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| Music manuscript |
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Music manuscripts are handwritten sources of music. Generally speaking, they can be written on paper or parchment. If the manuscript contains the composer's handwriting it is called an autograph. Music manuscripts can contain musical notation as...
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| Gruuthuse manuscript |
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The Gruuthuse manuscript is a medieval compilation, the oldest core of which is dated about 1395, while the youngest unfinished contributions date from around 1408. The manuscript is the only known source for a large number of Middle Dutch texts....
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| Mongolian manuscript maps |
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Mongolian manuscript maps usually mapped administrative divisions (leagues, banners or aimags) in Greater Mongolia. They gave a bird's eye view of the area depicted, making them somewhat similar to Pictorial maps. Such manuscript maps have been used...
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| Fernaig manuscript |
The Fernaig manuscript is a document containing approximately 4,200 lines of verse consisting largely of political and religious themes. The manuscript was composed between 1688 and 1693 by Donnchadh MacRath in Wester Ross and is notable for the...
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| Pepys Manuscript |
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The Pepys Manuscript is a late fifteenth-century English choirbook. Along with the Ritson Manuscript it is much less elaborate than the Eton, Lambeth and Caius Choirbooks, it contains shorter and simpler pieces which appear to have been written for...
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| Ritson Manuscript |
The Ritson Manuscript is a late fifteenth-century English choirbook. Along with the Pepys Manuscript it is much less elaborate than the Eton, Lambeth and Caius Choirbooks; it contains shorter and simpler pieces which appear to have been written for...
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| Lambeth Choirbook |
The Lambeth Choirbook is an illuminated choirbook dating to the fifteenth century and containing much music by Tudor-period composers. The major contributors are Robert Fayrfax and Nicholas Ludford; between them they contributed at least ten of its...
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| Caius Choirbook |
The Caius Choirbook is an illuminated choirbook dating to the fifteenth century and containing much music by Tudor-period composers. The book appears to originate from Arundel in Sussex, and to have been created sometime in the late 1520s; the then...
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| Uncial 0308 |
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Codex 0308 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is one of the recently registered New Testament Greek uncial manuscripts. It consists of only a fragment of a single parchment leaf of a fourth century codex, containing portions of the eleventh chapter...
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