{{New Testament manuscript infobox | form = Uncial | number = '''066''' | image = | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = Acts 28 | script = Greek | date = 6th-century | found = | now at = Russian National Library | cite = | size = 25 x 20 cm | type = Western text-type | cat = III | hand = | note = }}
'''Uncial 066''' (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 1000 (Soden),<ref name = Gregory1908>{{cite book|last=Gregory|first=Caspar René|authorlink=Caspar René Gregory|title=Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament|url=https://archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n49/mode/2up|year=1908|publisher=J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung|location=Leipzig|page=38}}</ref> is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 6th-century.
== Description == The codex contains a small part of the Acts 28:8-17, on one parchment leaf (25 cm by 20 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 25 lines per page. It is a palimpsest. The upper text has a Georgian calendar.<ref name = Aland>{{Cite book | last1 = Aland | first1 = Kurt | authorlink = Kurt Aland | last2 = Aland | first2 = Barbara | authorlink2 = Barbara Aland | others = Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) | title = The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism | publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company | year = 1995 | location = Grand Rapids | page = 119 | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}} </ref>
The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Western text-type, but it has some the Caesarean readings. Kurt Aland placed it in Category III.<ref name = Aland/>
Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 6th century.<ref name = INTF>{{Cite web |url=http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php?ObjID=20066 |title=Liste Handschriften |publisher=Institute for New Testament Textual Research |accessdate=21 April 2011 |location=Münster }}{{Dead link|date=October 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref>
Constantin von Tischendorf published its text.<ref>{{Cite book | last = Tischendorf | first = Constantin von | author-link = Constantin von Tischendorf | title = Monumenta Sacra Inedita. Nova collectio. Vol. I. Fragmenta Sacra Palimpsesta | location = Leipzig | year = 1845 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=n1lF1rG9g1EC&pg=PA43 | pages = 43–44}}</ref>
It is currently housed at the Russian National Library (Suppl. Gr. 6, II, fol 4) in Saint Petersburg.{{r|Aland|INTF}}
== See also == * List of New Testament uncials * Textual criticism
== References == {{Reflist}}
== Further reading ==
* Constantin von Tischendorf, [https://books.google.com/books?id=n1lF1rG9g1EC&pg=PA43 ''Monumenta Sacra Inedita. Nova collectio. Vol. I. Fragmenta Sacra Palimpsesta''] (Leipzig: 1845), pp. 43-44. * Kurt Treu, "Die Griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments in der USSR; eine systematische Auswertung des Texthandschriften in Leningrad, Moskau, Kiev, Odessa, Tbilisi und Erevan", ''T & U'' 91 (Berlin: 1966), pp. 292-293.
== External links == * [http://www.csntm.org/Manuscript/View/GA_066 Images] at the CSNTM
{{DEFAULTSORT:Uncial 0066}} Category:Palimpsests Category:Greek New Testament uncials Category:6th-century biblical manuscripts Category:National Library of Russia collection