Codex Seidelianus II

{{short description|Greek manuscript of the Gospels}}

{{for|the similarly named manuscript|Codex Seidelianus I}}

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{{New Testament manuscript infobox

| form = Uncial

| number = 013

| image = Codex Seidelianus II (John 1,38-40).jpg

| isize =

| caption= Scrivenr's facsimile

| name = Seidelianus II

| sign = He

| text = Gospels

| script = Greek

| date = 9th century

| found = Seidel

| now at = University of Hamburg, and Trinity College, Cambridge

| cite =

| size = {{×|22|18}}

| type = Byzantine text-type

| cat = V

| hand =

| note =

}}

Codex Seidelianus II designated by He or 013 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 88 (von Soden), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the four Gospels, dated palaeographically to the 9th century.{{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 = 110

| isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}} The manuscript is lacunose.

Description

The codex contains 194 parchment leaves ({{×|22|18}}). The text is written in one column per page, and 23 lines per column. The codex contains the text of the four Gospels with major lacunae (Matt. 1:1-15:30, 25:33-26:3, Mark 1:32-2:4, 15:44-16:14, Luke 5:18-32, 6:8-22, 10:2-19, John 9:30-10:25, 18:2-18, 20:12-25).

The codex contains lists of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (lists of contents), numbers of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (chapters) at the margin, the {{lang|grc|τιτλοι}} (titles) at the top, the Ammonian Sections but not the Eusebian Canons.{{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 = 51

| url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n63/mode/2up

}}

It has breathings and accents.

Text

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland gave to it textual profile 1741 821/2 22 7s and placed it in Category V. It belongs to the textual family E, but according to the Claremont Profile Method in Gospel of LUke it represents the textual family Kx.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.

History

The codex was brought from the East by Erasmus Seidel at the beginning of the 17th century, together with Codex Seidelianus I. Maturin Veyssière de La Croze bought it 1718, in the same time as Seidelianus I.C. v. Tischendorf, [https://archive.org/stream/novumtestamentu00tiscgoog#page/n180/mode/2up Novum Testamentum Graece. Editio Septima], Lipsiae 1859, p. CLVI.

Since 1838 the codex is located in Hamburg Universitätsbibliothek (Cod. 91). One leaf of the codex is housed at Trinity College, Cambridge (B XVII 20.21).{{Cite web |url=http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php?ObjID=20013 |title=Liste Handschriften |publisher=Institute for New Testament Textual Research |access-date=16 March 2013 |location=Münster}}

It was examined by Petersen, Bentley, Tregelles, Tischendorf, and Gregory.

See also

References

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Further reading

  • Bruce M. Metzger, The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption and Restoration, 2005, Oxford University Press, p. 76.