Codex Beratinus 1
| Uncial 043 | |
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| Codex Beratinus | |
| Surname | Counselor |
| character | X |
| text | Matthew , Mark |
| language | ancient greek |
| date | 6th century |
| Storage location | Tirana |
| size | 31 × 27 cm |
| Type | Byzantine text type |
| category | V |
| note | Purple Codex |
The Codex Beratinus ( Gregory-Aland no. 043 or Φ; von Soden ε 17) is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament that is dated to the 6th century. The manuscript is written on purple-dyed parchment and is not completely preserved.
The manuscript, together with Codex Beratinus 2 , has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Document (Albania) since 2005 .
description
The manuscript consists of the Gospels of Matthew and Mark with gaps (Matthew 1,1–6,3; 7,26–8,7; 18,23–19,3; Mark 14,62 – fin.). It is written in silver ink on 190 sheets of purple parchment in a format of 31 by 27 centimeters . The text is in two columns with 17 lines of eight to twelve letters each.
The letters of the uncials are simple, round and square. Accents, spiritus asper and lenis are missing. The nouns sacrae ΙΣ , ΘΣ , ΚΣ , ΥΣ ( Jesus , God , Lord , Son ) are written in gold ink. Old Testament quotes are highlighted.
The manuscript is counted among the purple codes with the Codex purpureus Rossanensis , the Codex Sinopensis and the Codex Petropolitanus Purpureus .
text
The ancient Greek text of the Codex represents the Byzantine text type and is assigned to Category V.
This manuscript has the long addition in Matthew 20:28 (like Codex Bezae ).
history
In 1356 the manuscript was in the Johannes Theologos Monastery in the city of Berat . This is where the name Codex Beratinus comes from . In 1868 the Archbishop Anthymus D. Alexoudes mentioned the Codex and Johannes Sakkelion told Louis Duchesne about it in 1875 on Patmos .
The codex is kept in the State Archives (No. 1) in Tirana .
See also
bibliography
- Pierre Batiffol : Evangeliorum codex Graecus purpureus Beratinus ɸ. In: Melanges d'archeologie et d'histoire, de l'ecole francaise de Rome 5. Paris and Rome 1882, pp. 358–376.
- Pierre Batiffol: Les manuscrits grecs de Berat d'Albanie et le Codex Purpureus. Paris 1886.
- WHP Hatch: The Principal Uncial Manuscripts of the New Testament. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1939.
- J. Koder, On the Rediscovery of Two Codices Beratini. In: Byzantinische Zeitschrift 65 (1972), pp. 327-328.
- Shaban Sinani: Kodikët e Shqipërisë dhe 2000-vjetori i krishtërimit. In: Media , 2000/6.
Web links
- Codex Purpureus Beratinus
- Ekspozitë e Dorëshkrimeve Bizantine dhe Pasbizantine ( Memento from August 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Albanian State Archives: Exhibition of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine manuscripts , April 27, 2010 (Albanian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Kurt and Barbara Aland: The text of the New Testament. Introduction to the scientific editions as well as to the theory and practice of modern text criticism Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1989, p. 123. ISBN 3-438-06011-6 .
- ↑ Codex Purpureus Beratinus. UNESCO Memory of the World, accessed February 24, 2016 .
- ↑ a b c C. R. Gregory : Textual Criticism of the New Testament. Leipzig 1900, vol. 1, p. 93.
- ↑ Bruce M. Metzger , Bart D. Ehrman : The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption and Restoration. Oxford University Press , New York - Oxford 2005, p. 74.