Purpure Gospel Book (Trento)

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The Purpure Gospels of Trient (also Evangelium Palatinum , Siglum e; No. 2 according to the edition of the Vetus Latina ) is a manuscript from the late 4th / early 5th century. It contains the text of the four Gospels of the New Testament in the old Latin translation of the Vetus Latina . It is one of the rare purple manuscripts of late antiquity . It is in the library of the Castello del Buonconsiglio in Trento (call number Ms. 1589).

description

The manuscript today consists of 228 sheets of parchment 35 × 25 cm in size. The pages are colored purple and written on with silver ink, only the first two lines on John and Luke are in gold script. The text is written in two columns of 20 lines each. It contains the text of the Gospels in the old Latin translation of the Vetus Latina. The text is arranged in the western order ( Matthew , John , Luke , Mark ) and contains gaps . The text follows the African review , with a strong European revision.

history

The manuscript was originally in the episcopal library in Trento and came to the court library in Vienna in 1805/06 (Cod. 1185). As a result of the lost World War I , it had to be given to Italy in 1919 and ended up in the Castello del Buonconsiglio in Trento. At that time it was also given a new cover. Two sheets of the manuscript were taken out as early as the 18th century and found in other libraries: one sheet is now in the library of Trinity College in Dublin , call number MS 1709 (Matthew 13, 12-23), another (Matthew 14, 11 –22) in the British Library in London .

literature

  • Konstantin von Tischendorf : Evangelium Palatinum ineditum sive reliquiae textus Evangel. latini ante Hieronymum versi . Brockhaus, Leipzig 1847 ( digitized version ).
  • Johannes Belsheim : Evangelium palatinum: reliqvias IV Evangeliorum ante Hieronymum latine translatorum. Oslo 1896 ( digitized ).
  • Elias Avery Lowe : On the African Origin of Codex Palatinus of the Gospels (e). In: The Journal of Theological Studies 23, 1921-1922, pp. 401-404.
  • Heinrich Joseph Vogels : Evangelium Palatinum. Studies on the oldest history of the Latin translation of the Gospels (= New Testament treatises 12/3). Aschendorff, Münster 1926.
  • Elias Avery Lowe: Codices latini antiquiores. A palaeographical guide to Latin manuscripts prior to the ninth century , volume 4. Italy: Perugia – Verona , Oxford 1947, no. 437.
  • Roger Gryson: Old Latin Manuscripts. Manuscripts vieux latins. Repertoire descriptif . Part 1: Mss 1-275 . Herder, Freiburg 1999, ISBN 3-451-00141-0 , pp. 21-22.
  • Adriano Paoloni (Ed.): I manoscritti medievali della provincia di Trento . Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento / Edizioni del Galluzzo, Florence 2010, ISBN 978-88-8450-311-4 , pp. 110-111 no. 97

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Signature Add. MS 40107 (Matthew 14: 11-22) . British Library. Retrieved September 29, 2019.
  2. ↑ Alexander Souter: A lost leaf of Codex Palatinus "e" of the oldlatin Gospels . In: The Journal of Theological studies 23, 1922, pp. 284–286.