Codex Zittaviensis

New Testament manuscripts
Papyri • Uncials • Minuscules • Lectionaries
Minuscule 664
text	AT and NT
language	Greek
date	15th century
Storage location	Christian-Weise-Bibliothek Zittau
size	31 x 20.2 cm
Type	Byzantine text type
category	V

The Codex Zittaviensis (No. 664 after Gregory-Aland , δ 502 after von Soden ; No. 44 after Rahlfs ) is a biblical manuscript that is palaeographically dated to the 15th century. It contains the full text of the Old and New Testaments in Greek .

description

The codex consists of 1008 sheets of paper in the format 31 × 20.2 cm, which are described in minuscules in one column with 30 lines each.

The Old Testament consists of 775 leaves. It also contains books 3rd and 4th Maccabees , Judit and Tobit .

The New Testament consists of 233 sheets of paper. It is arranged in the order Gospels , Acts , Pauline and Catholic Epistles, and Revelation . It follows the Byzantine text type .

history

The manuscript was in the possession of the Saxon pastor David Fleischmann until 1606 . In 1620 it was handed over to the Zittau Council Library by his son Johann Fleischmann. Today it is in the Christian-Weise library in Zittau with the signature A. 1.

literature

Kurt Aland , M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack: Brief list of the Greek manuscripts of the New Testament. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1994, ISBN 3-11-011986-2 , p. 86.
Alfred Rahlfs : Directory of the Greek manuscripts of the Old Testament. Weidmann, Berlin 1914, p. 325 ff. ( Online ).
Caspar René Gregory : The Greek manuscripts of the New Testament. JC Hinrichs, Leipzig 1908, p. 71 ( online ).
Henry A. Redpath: Codex Zittaviensis, for the LXX. In: Expository Times , Volume 8, 1896/1897, p. 383.
Christian Adolf Peschek : History of the Counter Reformation in Bohemia . Volume 2: Main story up to 1621 and post-history . Dresden, Leipzig 1844, p. 203 f.

Web links

List of manuscripts from the University of Münster INTF

Remarks

↑ Philine Brandt: Collecting and giving - book gifts and their donors in 200 years of history of the Zittau council library. In: Marius Winzeler (ed.): Wise gift: learning, entertainment and representation in the baroque Zittau; 300 years of library hall and cabinet of curiosities in Heffterbau 1709–2009. Zittauer Geschichtsblätter 40/2009, ed. from Zittauer Geschichts- und Museumsverein eV, Oettel, Görlitz 2009, ISBN 978-3-938583-50-0 , pp. 83-102, here p. 87

[1] Philine Brandt: Collecting and giving - book gifts and their donors in 200 years of history of the Zittau council library. In: Marius Winzeler (ed.): Wise gift: learning, entertainment and representation in the baroque Zittau; 300 years of library hall and cabinet of curiosities in Heffterbau 1709–2009. Zittauer Geschichtsblätter 40/2009, ed. from Zittauer Geschichts- und Museumsverein eV, Oettel, Görlitz 2009, ISBN 978-3-938583-50-0 , pp. 83-102, here p. 87