Codex Guelferbytanus A
{{for|the similarly named manuscript|Codex Guelferbytanus B}}
{{New Testament manuscript infobox
| form = Uncial
| number = 024
| image = Codex Guelferbytanus 64 Weissenburgensis, folio 90 verso, Lc 1,6-13.JPG
| isize = 220
| caption= Luke 1:6-13
| name = Guelferbytanus A
| sign = Pe
| text = Gospels
| script = Greek
| date = 6th century
| found = F. A. Knittel, 18th century
| now at = Wolfenbüttel
| cite =
| size = {{×|26.5|21.5|cm}}
| type = Byzantine text-type
| cat = V
| hand =
| note = palimpsest
}}
Codex Guelferbytanus A designated by Pe or 024 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 33 (von Soden), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the Gospels, dated palaeographically to the 6th century. The manuscript is very lacunose.
Description
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels in a very fragmentary condition on 44 leaves ({{×|26.5|21.5|cm}}). Written in two columns per page, 24 lines per column.{{Cite book
| last1 = Aland
| first1 = Kurt
| author-link = Kurt Aland
| last2 = Aland
| first2 = Barbara
| author-link2 = Barbara Aland
| others = Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.)
| title = The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism
| publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
| year = 1995
| location = Grand Rapids
| page = 113
| isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}} It does not contain in genere breathings and accents. Sometimes it uses breathings, but often wrongly. It has errors of iotacism in the Alexandrian way.{{Cite book
| last = Gregory
| first = Caspar René
| author-link = Caspar René Gregory
| title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments
| publisher = J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung
| year = 1900
| location = Leipzig
| volume = 1
| page = 62
| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n75/mode/2up
}}
; Contents
: Matthew 1:11-21; 3:13-4:19; 10:7-19; 10:42-11:11; 13:40-50; 14:15-15:3.29-39;
: Mark 1:2-11; 3:5-17; 14:13-24.48-61; 15:12-37;
: Luke 1:1-13; 2:9-20; 6:21-42; 7:32-8:2; 8:31-50; 9:26-36; 10:36-11:4; 12:34-45; 14:14-25; 15:13-16:22; 18:13-39; 20:21-21:3; 22:3-16; 23:20-33; 23:45-24:1; 24:14-37;
: John 1:29-40; 2:13-25; 21:1-11.
The notation of the Ammonian Sections is given in the margin of text, but without reference to the Eusebian Canons. The nomina sacra attested in this uncial fragment are ΙΣ (Iesous, Jesus) ΧΣ (Christos, Christ), ΚΣ (Kurios, Lord) ΘΣ, ΥΣ, ΠΗΡ, ΠΝΑ, ΙΛΗΜ, ΑΝΟΣ, and ΔΑΔ. The number "forty" is also written with an abbreviation — Μ. All the abbreviations are marked with the superscript bar.
It is a palimpsest. The whole book is known as Codex Guelferbytanus 64 Weissenburgensis. The upper text is in Latin and contains Isidore of Seville's Origines.
Text
The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V. According to the Claremont Profile Method in Luke 20 it has mixed text.Frederik Wisse, The profile method for the classification and evaluation of manuscript evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke, William B. Eerdmans Publishing, (Grand Rapids, 1982), p. 52.
According to Scrivener the codex agrees with AB united 50 times, sides with B against A 29 times, and accords with A against B in 102 places.F. H. A. Scrivener, "A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament" (George Bell & Sons: London 1894), Vol. 1, p. 144.
History
File:Codex Guelferbytanus B 00474.jpg
Formerly the manuscript was held in Bobbio, Weissenburg, Mainz, and Prague. The Duke of Brunswick bought it in 1689.
The manuscript became known to scholars in the latter half of the 18th century. Franz Anton Knittel (1721–1792) discovered it in the Ducal Library of Wolfenbüttel.F. H. A. Scrivener, "A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament" (George Bell & Sons: London 1894), Vol. 1, pp. 143-144. Knittel recognized two palimpsest Greek texts of the New Testament in the codex and designated them by A and B. F. A. He published the Gothic text of the codex (Codex Carolinus) at Brunswick in 1762.Knittel, Ulphilae versionem Gothicam nonnullorum capitum epistolae Pauli ad Romanos e litura MS. rescript Bibliothecae Guelferbytanae, cum variis monumentis ineditis eruit, commentatus est, detitque foras, Brunovici 1762 The lower Greek text was collated and edited by Tischendorf in 1860.
| last = Gregory
| first = Caspar René
| author-link = Caspar René Gregory
| title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments
| publisher = J.C. Hinrichs
| year = 1900
| location = Leipzig
| volume = 1
| page = 63
}}
The codex is located at the Herzog August Bibliothek (Weissenburg 64) in Wolfenbüttel.{{Cite web |url=http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php?ObjID=20024 |title=Liste Handschriften |publisher=Institute for New Testament Textual Research |access-date=16 March 2013 |location=Münster}}
See also
{{Portal|Bible}}
References
{{Reflist|2}}
Further reading
- Constantin von Tischendorf, [https://archive.org/stream/Tischendorf.iv.monumentaSacraInedita.newcollection.subscript.6vols.1857-1870/03.MonumentaSacraInedita.FragOrigeOcte.FEGP.v3.Tischendorf.Subsc.1860.#page/n11/mode/2up Monumenta Sacra inedita VI] (Leipzig, 1869), pp. XIII-XV, XVII, XVIII, 249-338.
- G. Cavallo, "Ricerche sulla maiuscola biblica" (Firenze: Le Monnier, 1967), p. 92.
- U. B. Schmid, D. C. Parker, W. J. Elliott, [https://books.google.com/books?id=QBSOiQyAJTYC&pg=PA39 The Gospel according to St. John: The majuscules] (Brill 2007), pp. 39–44. [text of the codex in the Gospel of John]
External links
- Digitalized [http://diglib.hab.de/mss/64-weiss/start.htm Codex Guelferbytanus 64 Weissenburgensis] at the Herzog August Bibliothek
{{DEFAULTSORT:Guelferbytanus A}}
Category:Greek New Testament uncials