List of New Testament uncials

By 1963, Kurt Aland, in his Kurzgefasste Liste, had enumerated 250, then in 1989, finally, 299 uncials.

Succeeding generations used this pattern, but newly discovered manuscripts soon exhausted the Latin alphabet.

[3][4] When Greek and Hebrew letters ran out, Gregory assigned uncials numerals with an initial 0 (to distinguish them from the symbols of minuscule manuscripts).

[2] As of 2012[update] over 320 sigla for uncial codices have been catalogued by the Institute for New Testament Textual Research (INTF) in Münster, Germany.

[further explanation needed][2] Uncial 0212 from the 3rd or 4th century is more properly a witness to the Diatessaron than to the New Testament itself.

The first 45 uncials have been assigned descriptive names as well as a single letter code called a siglum, for usage in academic writing.

Beginning with uncial 046 the assignment of sigla was dropped and only a few manuscripts thereafter received a descriptive name.