Editio Regia

4th edition of the New Testament by Robert Estienne

Editio Regia ( Royal Edition ) is the third and most important edition of the Greek New Testament by Robert Estienne (1503–1559). It is one of the most important printed editions of the Greek New Testament in the form of the Textus Receptus . The edition was named Editio Regia because of its high print quality, its beautiful and elegant Greek printing types and its rich and aesthetically pleasing features.

The edition was revised in 1550 by Estienne in Paris . It is the first Greek testament with a critical apparatus . Estienne added alternative readings from 15 Greek manuscripts and the Complutensic Polyglot in the margins of the pages . He designated all these sources with symbols from α 'to ις'. The Complutensic Polyglot was referenced with α '. This critical compilation was a new task. Although Estienne left out hundreds of important variants of important testimonies, this was the first step towards modern textual criticism .

The oldest manuscript used in this edition was the Codex Bezae . These readings were put together for him "by friends in Italy" (secundo exemplar vetustissimum in Italia from amicis collatum). The majority of the other manuscripts used are now in the Bibliothèque nationale de France . However, Estienne made only small changes in the main text compared to the Novum Instrumentum omne by Erasmus . In Luke 17.36 he added a few verses to the text of Erasmus, which he took from the Codex Bezae.

Until the end of the 19th century, the text of this edition was repeatedly reprinted in various editions or used as a text basis for text-critical editions. When the Textus Receptus is mentioned in general, the text of this edition is often assumed without explicitly naming it.

See also

• Complutensic polyglot
• Novum Instrumentum omne
• Textus Receptus

Individual evidence

1. ^ THL Parker, Calvin's New Testament Commentaries , (London: CSM Press, 1971), 103.

literature

• JJ Griesbach, Novum Testamentum Graece (London 1809)
• SP Tregelles , The Printed Text of the Greek New Testament , London 1854.
• Bruce M. Metzger , Bart D. Ehrman , The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption and Restoration , Oxford University Press , 2005.

Web links

• Text of the Editio Regia 1550 (PDF file)
• The New Testament in the original Greek - 1881
• The Critical Editions of the New Testament (PDF file; 473 kB)