Fragmenta Tischendorfiana

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Fragmenta Tischendorfiana is the name for some parchment leaves from various manuscripts of the Old Testament in Greek ( Septuagint ) from the 4th to 8th centuries. They were found in manuscripts that were later overwritten with other texts ( Palimpsests , Rescripta).

The fragments were discovered by Konstantin von Tischendorf and placed in the Monumenta sacra inedita. Nova collectio 1, 2, 4 , 1853, 1855, 1869 printed. The sheets are now in the British Library in London , call number Ms. Add. 14665, Z I to Z VI and in the Vatican Apostolic Library in Rome , Cod.Vat. Syr. 162.

Fragments

  • Fragment Vat.syr . 162 ( Codex Zugninensis ), 4th century, 128 sheets

overwritten in Syriac 507 with the Chronicle of Joshua Stylites

  • Fragment Z I , 4th century, 3 sheets

2nd Kings 22. 38-42, 46-39; 23. 2-5, 8-10; 3rd Kings 13. 4–6, 8–11, 13–17, 20–23, 16. 31–33, 17. 1–5, 9–12, 14–17,
in a manuscript that was first written in the Egyptian-Greek language in 7th century, then described in Armenian

  • Fragment Z II , 4th century

Isaiah 3: 8-14, 5: 2-14, 19.11-23, 44. 26-45. 5
then overwritten first in Egyptian-Greek, then in Armenian (like Z I )

  • Fragment Z III , 4th century

Psalm 141 (142). 7-8, 142 (143). 1-3, 144 (145), 7-13

  • Fragment Z IV , 5th century, 1 sheet

3. Kings 8, 58–9.1
, then overwritten first in Syrian, then in Coptic

  • Fragment Z V? , 5th century

Ezekiel 4. 16-5. 4
then overwritten first in Syrian, then in Coptic (like Z IV )

literature

  • Sidney Jellicoe: The Septuagint and Modern Study. 1978. Reprint, Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake (Indiana) 1993, ISBN 0-931464-00-5 , pp. 207ff. ( online ).
  • Henry Barclay Swete, An Introduction to The Old Testament in Greek , Cambridge 1902, rev. v. RR Ottley 1914, p. 145 online

See also