Codex Veronensis
{{Short description|5th-century Latin Gospel Book}}
{{For|the manuscript of the Psalter in Greek and Latin|Codex Veronensis (R)}}
The Codex Veronensis, designated by the siglum b (used in the critical editions of Nestle-Åland and the UBS Greek New Testament) or 4 (in the Beuron system), is a 5th-century Latin manuscript of the four Gospels, written on vellum which has been dyed purple. The text is written in silver and occasionally gold ink, and is a version of the old Latin New Testament Gospels. The Gospels follow in the Western order.{{Cite book | first=Bruce Manning | last=Metzger | author-link=Bruce M. Metzger | title=The Early Versions of the New Testament | page=296 | year=1977 | publisher=Oxford University Press | location=Oxford | isbn=978-0198261704}}
Description
The manuscript is a codex (precursor to the modern book), containing the Latin text of the four Gospels written on purple parchment, with 1 column and 18 lines per page.{{r|hagh-latin|p=212}} It has several missing sections (Matthew 1:1-11; 15:12-23; 23:18-27; John 7:44-8:12; Luke 19:26-21:29; Mark 13:9-19; 13:24-16:20).{{Cite book | first=Frederick Henry Ambrose | last=Scrivener | author-link=Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener | author2=Edward Miller | title=A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. 2 | edition=fourth | page=45 | year=1894 | publisher=George Bell & Sons | location=London}}
On the several pages which are missing, they also include the pages which contained John 7:44-8:11. Space-considerations show that the missing pages included John 7:53-8:11, the passage known as the Pericope Adulterae.
Gold ink is used for the first page of each Gospel book, and all nomina sacra (special names/titles employed in early Christian writings and copies of the New Testament books) are also written in gold ink.{{r|hagh-latin|p=189}}
In Luke 8:21 it reads αυτον instead of αυτους; the reading αυτον is supported by {{papyrus link|75}}, and Minuscule 705.NA26, p. 181
In John 1:34 reads ὁ ἐκλεκτός together with the manuscripts {{papyrus link|5}}, {{papyrus link|106}}, א, e, Codex Corbeiensis II, syr{{sup|c, s}}.
In John 14:14 the entire verse is omitted along with manuscripts X Family 1 565 1009 1365 ℓ 76 ℓ 253 vg{{sup|mss}} sy{{sup|s, p}} arm geo Diatessaron.UBS3, p. 390.
The Latin text of the codex is a representative of the Western text-type in its European/Italian recension.{{Cite book | first=Caspar René | last=Gregory | author-link=Caspar René Gregory | title=Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | volume=2 | page=601 | year=1902 | publisher=J. C. Hinrichs | location=Leipzig | url=https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne01greggoog#page/n133/mode/2up}} The codex is one of the principal witnesses to the Old Latin Text-Type I along with manuscripts Codex Corbeiensis II (VL8) and Codex Vindobonensis (VL17), although in John 1:1-10:13 it has a slightly earlier type of the Old Latin text.{{Cite book | first=Hugh A. G. | last=Houghton | title=The Latin New Testament: A Guide to its Early History, Texts, and Manuscripts | pages=45–46 | year=2016 | publisher=Oxford University Press | location=Oxford | isbn=978-0-19-874473-3}}
In biblical scholar Francis Crawford Burkitt's opinion, it represents the type of text that Jerome used as the basis of the Vulgate.{{Cite book | first1=Bruce Manning | last1=Metzger | author1-link=Bruce M. Metzger | first2=Bart D. | last2=Ehrman | author-link2=Bart Ehrman | title=The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration | edition=4 | page=102 | year=2005 | publisher=Oxford University Press | location=Oxford | isbn=978-019-516667-5}}
The manuscript was examined by Giuseppe Bianchini in the mid-18th century. The text was edited by Bianchini, Belsheim,J. Belsheim, [https://archive.org/stream/MN41420ucmf_4#page/n3/mode/2up Codex Veronensis. Quattuor Evangelia] (Prague, 1904). and Jülicher.{{r|Metzger}}
It was named Veronensis after Verona, the city where it was located.
It is currently located in the Chapter Library, at the Verona Cathedral (Biblioteca Capitolare della Cattedrale di Verona).{{r|metz-ehrman}}
See also
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References
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Further reading
- J. Belsheim, [https://archive.org/stream/MN41420ucmf_4#page/n3/mode/2up Codex Veronensis. Quattuor Evangelia] (Prague, 1904).
- G. Mercati, Un paio di appunti sopre il codice purpureo Veronese dei vangeli, RB XXXIV (1925), pp. 396–400.
- A. Jülicher, Itala. Das Neue Testament in Altlateinischer Überlieferung, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York, 1976. ([https://books.google.com/books?id=-8RbpOTo-NwC Marcus Evangelium])
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070730034831/http://www.cattedralediverona.it/allegati%20capitolare/Evangeliario%20purpureo.jpg Image from Codex Veronensis]
- [https://elmss.nuigalway.ie/catalogue/828 More information at Earlier Latin Manuscripts]
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Category:Vetus Latina New Testament manuscripts