:Codex Ravianus
Codex Ravianus (also called Berolinensis) is a manuscript rewritten from the Complutensian Polyglot Bible. Formerly it was listed as a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, but it was removed from the list in 1908. The manuscript is a famous instance of the Comma Johanneum.
Description
The codex contains a complete text of the New Testament, in two volumes, on 292 + 205 parchment leaves (size {{×|22.3|16.5}}). The leaves are arranged in quarto.{{Cite book
| last = Scrivener
| first = Frederick Henry Ambrose
| author-link = Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener
|author2=Edward Miller
| title = A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament
| publisher = George Bell & Sons
| year = 1894
| location = London
| edition = 4
| volume = 1
| page = 209
}} It contains a spurious biblical passage, the Comma Johanneum in 1 John 5:7.{{cite book | last = Wettstein |first = Johann Jakob | author-link = Johann Jakob Wettstein | title = Novum Testamentum Graecum editionis receptae cum lectionibus variantibus codicum manuscripts|url=https://archive.org/stream/hekainediatheken00clem#page/58/mode/2up |access-date = September 22, 2011 | volume = 1 | publisher = Ex Officina Dommeriana | location = Amsterdam | year = 1751 | language=la |pages=58–59 }} Although it was rewritten from the Complutensian text, there are some textual divergences between them: Matthew 2:13; 15:22; 17:2; 23:8; 1 John 5:10; Jude 22,George Travis, [https://archive.org/details/letterstoedwardg00trav/page/56 Letters to Edward Gibbon, esq: author of the History of the decline, and fall, of the Roman Empire], C. F. and J. Rivington, 1785, p. 56. which all stem from the errors of the pen of the Ravianus's scribe.Johann David Michaelis, Herbert Marsh, [https://books.google.com/books?id=arAXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA771 Introduction to the New Testament], F. and C. Rivington, 1802, vol. 2, p. 771. The codex was used as an argument in the 18th century that Complutensian was rewritten from the Codex Ravianus, even with imitation of its letters, but scholars like La Croze, Griesbach, and Michaelis proved that errors of Ravianus are nothing more than errors of the pen. It lost its weight as an independent authority.
History
The manuscript is a transcript from the Complutensian Polyglot, printed in 1514. It copies even typographical errors of it, and the letters are similar. Some variant readings were inserted from the margin of Stephanus's edition.Adam Clarke, [https://books.google.com/books?id=E-A8AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA851 The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments], N. Bangs and J. Emory, 1823, p. 851.Bruce M. Metzger, Bart D. Ehrman, [https://www.scribd.com/doc/54229464/The-Text-of-NT-4th-Edit-Bruce-Metzger-Bart-Ehrman The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption and Restoration] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120718003809/http://www.scribd.com/doc/54229464/The-Text-of-NT-4th-Edit-Bruce-Metzger-Bart-Ehrman |date=2012-07-18 }}, (Oxford University Press, 2005), p. 147. According to C. R. Gregory it once belonged to Christian Rave, from Uppsala, or his brother Johannes Rave. It took the name of Ravianus from the name Rave.Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths, [https://books.google.com/books?id=a_8vAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA495 The Monthly review], 1797, p. 495. Johann Jakob Wettstein added it into the list of the Greek New Testament manuscripts, and designated it siglum 110. The text was published by Treschow, while it was examined and described by Griesbach,J.J. Griesbach, Symbolae critique..., pp. CLXXXI-CLXXXII. Georg Gottlieb Pappelbaum (in 1796), and Gregory (in 1900).{{Cite book
| last = Gregory
| first = Caspar René
| author-link = Caspar René Gregory
| title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments
| publisher = Hinrichs
| year = 1900
| location = Leipzig
| volume = 1
| page = 153
| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n165/mode/2up
}} In 1908 Gregory removed it from the list of the Greek New Testament manuscripts.{{cite book|last=Gregory|first=Caspar René|author-link=Caspar René Gregory|title=Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament|url=https://archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n211/mode/2up|year=1908|publisher=J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung|location=Leipzig|page=200}} It is no longer listed, because it is only a facsimile of the Complutensis Polyglot. The manuscript is currently housed in the Berlin State Library (Gr. fol. 1 & 2).
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