Codex Vercellensis
The Codex Vercellensis (Siglum a, No. 3 after Beuron) is the oldest surviving manuscript of the New Testament in Latin . It was written in the 4th century and contains the text of the four Gospels in the translation of the Vetus Latina in the western order ( Matthew , John , Luke , Mark ), as well as the Euthalian apparatus . The text is written on purple-dyed parchment with silver and gold ink.
The text ends at Mark. 15.15 and was supplemented by a Vulgate text from Mark 16.7-20. Before Matth. 3. 16 it is the only one that contains the addition Et cum baptizaretur, lumen ingens circumfulsit de aqua, ita ut timerent omnes qui advenerant. The text is very consistent with the Codex Corbeiensis II .
The handwriting was in very poor condition. It was restored at the beginning of the 20th century. Some text passages remain illegible. The manuscript is in the cathedral library in Vercelli , Italy.
Tradition has it that the manuscript was made under Bishop Eusebius von Vercelli .
expenditure
- Giovanni Andrea Irico: Sacrosanctus Evangeliorum Codex Sancti Eusebii Vercellensis. 2 volumes, In Regia Curia, Milan 1748 (online: Volume 1 , Volume 2 ).
- Giuseppe Bianchini, Rome, 1749, in: Jacques Paul Migne (ed.): Patrologia Latina , Volume XII, Col. 141–338.
- Johannes Belsheim: Codex Vercellensis. Libraria Mallingiana, Christiania 1897.
- Aidan Gasquet: Codex Vercellensis (= Collectanea biblica Latina. Volume III). F. Pustet, Rome 1914.
- Adolf Jülicher , Walter Matzkow, Kurt Aland (eds.): Itala. The New Testament in old Latin tradition . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1938–1972.
literature
- Caspar René Gregory: Textual Criticism of the New Testament. Volume 2, JC Hinrichs, Leipzig 1902, pp. 598-599 ( online ).
