Uncial 070
Uncial 070 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 6 (Soden), is a Greek-Coptic diglot uncial manuscript of the New Testament. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 6th century. 

Uncial 070 belonged to the same manuscript as codices: 0110, 0124, 0178, 0179, 0180, 0190, 0191, 0193, 0194, and 0202.

The manuscript is very lacunose.

Contents 
 070 (13 folios) – Luke 9:9-17; 10:40-11:6; 12:15-13:32; John 5:31-42; 8:33-42; 12:27-36
 0110 (1 folio) – John 8:13-22 
 0124 + 0194 (22 folios) – Luke 3:19-30; 10:21-30; 11:24-42; 22:54-65; 23:4-24:26; John 5:22-31; 8:42-9:39; 11:48-56; 12:46-13:4
 0178 (1 folio) – Luke 16:4-12
 0179 (1 folio) – Luke 21:30-22:2
 0180 (1 folio) – John 7:3-12
 0190 (1 folio) – Luke 10:30-39
 0191 (1 folio) – Luke 12:5-14
 0193 (1 folio) – John 3:23-32
 0202 (2 folios) – Luke 8:13-19; 8:55-9:9.

Description 
The codex contains parts of the Gospel of Luke and Gospel of John, on 44 parchment leaves (37 by 28 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 35 lines per page. The Coptic text is not completely identical with the Greek. It is written in large, round, not compressed letters, in black ink. Pages have Coptic numbers. It used Spiritus asper, Spiritus lenis, and accents, but often wrongly. There are many itacistic errors.

Probably it was written by a Coptic scribe. In Luke 13:21 he wrote βαβουσα instead of λαβουσα. In Luke 13:16 he used δεκαι instead of δεκα και. 
The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category III. The Coptic text is not completely identical with the Greek.

It does not include the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) in the Coptic text. The Greek text has a lacuna in that place. 

In Luke 23:34 omitted words are "And Jesus said: Father forgive them, they know not what they do." This omission is supported by the manuscripts Papyrus 75, Sinaiticusa, B, D*, W, Θ, 1241, ita, d, syrs, copsa, copbo.

History 

Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 6th century.

Nine leaves of the codex (Luke 12:15-13:32; John 8:33-42), belonged once to Carl Gottfried Woide, who received them from Egypt. They are known as Fragmentum Woideanum, they were designated by Ta or Twoi and were confused with Codex Borgianus. According to Tregelles they were parts of the same manuscript. J.B. Lightfoot gave a reasons for thinking that this fragment was not originally a portion of Borgianus.

0124 was brought from White Monastery.

Present location 

The 14 fragments of the codex, which have been assigned 11 different Gregory-Aland numbers, are held in five collections located in four cities. 
 Fragmentum Woideanum from 070 is held in the Clarendon Press, b. 2 Oxford – 9 leaves, with inscription "Coptic and Sahidic Manuscripts from Cairo"
 part of 070 is held in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Copt. 132,2 Paris – 2 leaves
 rest of 070 is held in the Louvre MSE 10014, 10092k – 2 leaves
 0110 is held in British Library, Add. 34274, 1 f., London
 0194 (=0124) and 0202 are held in the British Library, Or. 3579 B [29], fol. 46, 47, 2 ff. London
 0124, 0179, 0180, 0190, 0191, and 0193 are held in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Copt. 129,7 Paris
 0178 is held in the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (1 f), in Vienna.

See also 

 List of New Testament uncials
 Coptic versions of the Bible
 Biblical manuscript
 Textual criticism

References

Further reading 

 H. Ford, Appendix ad editionem Novi Testamenti Graeci e Codice MS Alexandrino a C. G. Woide descripti (Oxford, 1799), pp. 52–62, 83.
 E. Amélineau, Notice des manuscrits coptes de la Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris: 1985), pp. 373–374, 408-409. (Uncial 0124)
 C. R. Gregory, "Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes", Leipzig 1900, vol. 1, p. 69 (0124), p. 75 (070).
 U. B. Schmid, D. C. Parker, W. J. Elliott, The Gospel according to St. John: The majuscules (Brill 2007), pp. 61-65. [text of the codex in the Gospel of John]
 K. Wessely, Studien zur Paläographie und Papyruskunde (Amsterdam 1966)

External links 
 Uncial 070 at the Wieland Willker, "Textual Commentary"

Greek New Testament uncials
Greek-Coptic diglot manuscripts of the New Testament
6th-century biblical manuscripts
Bibliothèque nationale de France collections
Biblical manuscripts of the Austrian National Library
British Library collections
Manuscripts of the Louvre