Codex Nanianus
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New Testament manuscript |
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Mark 5:18 (Tregelles facsimile edition)
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| Name | Nanianus Venetus Marcianus |
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| Sign | U |
| Text | Gospels |
| Date | 9th century |
| Script | Greek |
| Now at | Biblioteca Marciana, Venice |
| Size | 22.5 cm by 16.7 cm |
| Type | Byzantine text-type |
| Category | V |
| Hand | carefully written |
| Note | Unique addition in John 8:8 |
Codex Nanianus, designated by siglum U or 030 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 90 (von Soden), is a Greek uncial manuscripts of the New Testament on parchment, dated palaeographically to the 9th century. The manuscript has complex contents, with full marginalia (see picture). The codex is named after its last owner. It is also known as Codex Venetus Marcianus.
The text of the codex usually follows the majority text, but with departures, some of them represent Alexandrian tradition. The manuscript is rarely cited in the present critical editions of the Greek New Testament.
The codex contains 291 parchment leaves (22.5 cm by 16.7 cm), with a complete text of the four Gospels. The leaves are arranged in quarto (four leaves in quire). The text is written in two columns per page, and 21 lines per column, in brown ink. According to Scrivener the manuscript is carefully and luxury written. The ornaments are in gold and colours.
The initial letters in gold and decorated. The letters are high, and round. They have breathings and accents.
It is an ornamented codex, with full marginalia, as well illuminations such as pictures and golden ornaments. It is written in well rounded uncials, Letters are in general an imitation of those used before the introduction of compressed uncials. The letters are compressed only at the end of line. It is shown in Tregelles' facsimile, the oblong omicrons creep at the end of lines 2 and 4.Samuel Prideaux Tregelles found that the "letters are in general an imitation of those used before the introduction of compressed uncials; but they do not belong to the age when full and round writing was customary or natural, so that the stiffness and want of ease is manifest".
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