Codex Sangallensis 18

{{for|the similarly named manuscript|Codex Sangallensis 48|Codex Sangallensis 51}}

{{New Testament manuscript infobox

| form = Uncial

| number = 0130

| image = Codex Sangallensis 18 (146).jpg

| isize =

| caption=

| name = Sangallensis 18

| sign =

| text = Mark 1-2 †; Luke 1-2 †

| script = Greek

| date = 9th-century

| found =

| now at = Abbey library of Saint Gall

| cite =

| size = {{×|29.5|21.3}}

| type = mixed

| cat = III, influenced by V

| hand =

| note = palimpsest

}}

Uncial 0130 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 80 (Soden), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated palaeographically to the 9th-century. Formerly it was labelled by Wc.

Description

The codex contains a small part of the Mark 1:31-2:16; Luke 1:20-31.64-79; 2:24-48, on 7 parchment leaves ({{×|29.5|21.3}}). It is written in two columns per page, 22 lines per page,{{Cite book

| last = Aland

| first = 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 = [https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt/page/n144 122]

| url =https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt

| url-access = limited

| isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}} in large uncial letters. The writing is similar to Codex Sangallensis 48 but bigger. It has diacritic marks and accents.{{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 = 77

| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n89/mode/2up

}}

It is a palimpsest, the upper text has Latin Vulgate. The leaves were washed to make a palimpsest, and the writing erased in parts by a knife.{{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 = 151

}}

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the mixed text-type, with a strong element of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family I'. Aland placed it in Category III.

According to the Claremont Profile Method it has mixed text in Luke 1. In Luke 10 and Luke 20 the manuscript is defective.{{Cite book

| last = Wisse

| first = Frederik

| title = The profile method for the classification and evaluation of manuscript evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke

| publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

| year = 1982

| location = Grand Rapids

| page = [https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/52 52]

| url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/52

| isbn = 0-8028-1918-4

| url-access = registration

}}

History

It is dated by the INTF to the 9th-century.{{Cite web |url=http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php?ObjID=20130 |title=Liste Handschriften |publisher=Institute for New Testament Textual Research |access-date=21 April 2011 |location=Münster}}

The manuscript was examined by Tischendorf.

Four leaves of the codex are housed at the Abbey library of Saint Gall (18, fol. 143-146; 45, fol. 1-2) in St. Gallen, and three leaves in Zürich (Zentralbibliothek, C 57, fol. 5, 74, 93, 135).

See also

References

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Further reading

  • Constantin von Tischendorf, Monumenta Sacra Inedita III, Fragmenta Origenianae Octateuchi Editionis (1857), (Prolegomena p. iii, xxxix, xl; pp. 291–298; plate II).
  • Hermann von Soden, "Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte," Verlag von Arthur Glaue, Berlin 1902-1910, pp. 78–79.
  • Alban Dodd, Neue Palimpsest-Bruchstücke der griechischen Bibel; Zwei bekannte neugelesene Palimpsest-Bruchstücke einre St Galler Evangelienhandschrift, Biblische Zeitschrift 18 (1929), pp. 241–270.