Codex Zakynthius

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New Testament manuscripts
Papyri • Uncials • Minuscules • Lectionaries
Uncial 040
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Surname Codex Zakynthius
character Ξ
text Gospel according to Luke
language Greek
date 6th century
Found 1820
Storage location Cambridge University Library
size 36 × 29 cm
Type Alexandrian text type
category III

The Codex Zakynthius ( Gregory-Aland no. Ξ or 040 ; von Soden A 1 ) is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament , which is dated to the 6th century. The handwriting is incomplete. The text was overwritten by a lectionary ( ℓ 299 ) from the 12th to 13th centuries.

content

The manuscript consists of the Gospels according to Luke 1,1-11,33 with many gaps on 89 parchment sheets. The format is 36 × 29 cm, the text is in two columns. The uncial letters are large and narrow on thick parchment . Spiritus asper , Spiritus lenis and accents are missing. The handwriting is a palimpsest , the younger handwriting is a minuscule section from the 12th or 13th century.

Luke 1: 1–9.19–23.27.22.30–32.36–66.77–2.19.21.22.33–39; 3.5-8.11-20; 4,1.2.6-20.32-43; 5.17-36; 6.21-7.6.11-37.39-47; 8.4-21.25-35.43-50; 9.1-28.32.33.35.41-10, 18.21-10; 11,1.2.3.4.24-30.31.32.33.

The Codex Zakynthius contains catenas from Origen , Chrysostom , Cyrill and others and is thus the oldest surviving manuscript with a catena.

text

The Greek text of the Codex represents the Alexandrian text type . The text of the Codex is assigned to Category III .

history

Colin Macaulay (1760–1836) brought this manuscript from the island of Zakynthos (hence Zakynthius) to London in 1820 . Here it became part of the library of the British and Foreign Bible Society (call number: Mss 24 ). Johann Martin Augustin Scholz saw it in 1845, Paul de Lagarde in 1883. The manuscript was collated by Tregelles (1864).

The Codex has been on loan from the Bible Society in the Cambridge University Library (BFBS Ms 213, Mss 24) since 1984 . At the end of 2013 it was announced that the Bible Society was planning to sell the manuscript to finance the construction of a visitor center. The University of Cambridge received a right of first refusal and strives to raise the required sum to February, 2014.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Kurt and Barbara Aland: The text of the New Testament. Introduction to the scientific editions as well as the theory and practice of modern textual criticism . German Bible Society, Stuttgart 1981, p. 123. ISBN 3-438-06011-6 .
  2. ↑ a b c d C. R. Gregory , "Text Critique of the New Testament" , Leipzig 1900, vol. 1, p. 91.
  3. ↑ Bruce M. Metzger , Bart D. Ehrman , The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration , Oxford University Press, 2005, p. 83.
  4. ↑ Cambridge University Library bids to purchase early Gospel manuscript , accessed December 18, 2013; the Deakzessions -Vorhaben the Bible Society, is seen as critical, see UK: Bible Society to sell important bible manuscripts on Archivalia , accessed on 18 December 2013

literature

  • SP Tregelles, Codex Zacynthius. Greek Palimpsest Fragments of the Gospel of Saint Luke (London, 1861).
  • N. Pocock, The Codex Zacynthius , The Academy (London, February 19, 1881), pp. 136c-137c.
  • JH Greenlee, The Catena of Codex Zacynthius , Biblica 40 (1959), pp. 992-1001.
  • JH Greenlee, A Corrected Collation of Codex Zacynthius (Cod. Ξ) , JBL LXXVI (1957), pp. 237-241.
  • WHP Hatch, A Redating of Two Important Uncial Manuscripts of the Gospels - Codex Zacynthius and Codex Cyprius , in Lake F / S, pp. 333-338.

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