Minuscule 69
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Minuscule 69 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 505 (Soden), known as Codex Leicester, or Codex Leicestrensis, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on paper and parchment leaves. The manuscript paleographically had been assigned to the 15th century.[1]
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Description
The codex contains the entire New Testament with four lacunae (Matt. 1:1-18:15; Acts 10:45-14:17; Jude 7-25; Rev 19:10-22:21) on 213 leaves (37.8 cm by 27 cm). The text of the manuscript skips from Acts 10:45 to 14:17 without a break; possibly a scribe rewrote it from defective manuscript. The text of Rev 18:7-19:10 is a fragmentary. The Pauline epistles precede Acts of the Apostles (like in Codex Sinaiticus). Written in one column per page, 37-38 lines per page.[2]
The codex is written on 91 leaves of parchment and 122 of paper. Usually two parchment leaves are followed by three paper leaves. The paper was very poor quality.[3] The writing is rather rough and inelegant. It was written by a strange hand, epsilon being recumbent and so much like alpha, that it is not clear which was intended.[4] "The whole style of writing resembling a careless scrawl".[5]
Name ιησους is always writing at full length up to John 21:15, where we meet with ις, and in 41 other places, 19 of which are in the Acts.[6]
Headings of Gospels as in codex 178 - εκ του κατα Μαρκον.[7]
Luke 22:43-44 is placed after Matt 26:39. It is typical for the manuscripts of the Ferrar Group.
Original order of books: Pauline epistles, Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, Revelation of John, Gospels.[8]
Text
Textually codex 69 is very remarkable; it belongs to Family 13, as very important member of this group--according to some scholars even the most important. The Greek text of the Gospels of this codex is representative of the Caesarean text-type. Aland placed it in Category III. In Pauline epistles and Catholic epistles its text is a Byzantine. Aland placed it in Category V.[9] In the Book of Revelation its text belongs to the Byzantine text-type, but with a large number of unique textual variants, in close relationship to the Uncial 046 and Minuscule 61, which appears to have been copied from it.[10] These three manuscripts constitute a subgroup of the Byzantine text-type.
History
The manuscript was presented to George Neville, Archbishop of York (1465-1472).[11] It belonged to William Chark (or Charc), mentioned in marginal notes of codex 61, and then to Thomas Hayne, who in 1640 gave this codex to the Leicester Library.[12][13] It was collated by Mill, and examined by Wettstein.[14]
The codex now is located in Town Museum, Muniment Room (Cod. 6 D 32/1) at Leicester.[15]
See also
References
- ^ a b c K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 50.
- ^ a b c d Bruce M. Metzger, "Manuscripts of the Greek Bible: An Introduction to Palaeography", Oxford University Press, Oxford 1981, p. 138.
- ^ a b c F. H. A. Scrivener, A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament (London 1894), vol. 1, p. 202-203.
- ^ a b C. R. Gregory, "Textkritik des Neuen Testaments", Leipzig 1900, vol. 1, pp. 144-145.
- ^ Kurt Aland, and Barbara Aland, "The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism", William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, (Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1995), p. 129.
- ^ Bruce M. Metzger, Bart D. Ehrman, "The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption and Restoration", (Oxford University Press, 2005), p. 86.
- ^ S. P. Tregelles, "An Introduction to the Critical study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures", London 1856, p. 209.
Further readings
- W. H. Ferrar and T. K Abbott, "A Collation of Four Important Manuscripts of the Gospels by the late William Hugh Ferrar" (Dublin, 1877), collates 13, 69, 124, and 346 in the Gospels.
- M. R. James, "The Scribe of the Leicester Codex", JTS, v (1903/4).
- J. Rendel Harris, The Origin of the Leicester Codex of the New Testament (London 1887).
- F. H. A. Scrivener, "An Exact Transcipt of the Codex Augiensis" (Cambridge and London, 1859), pp. 40-47.
- M. R. James, "The Scribe of the Leicester Codex", JTS V (1904), pp. 445-447.
External links
- Images from Codex Leicestrensis at the CSNTM
- Codex Leicestrensis at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism
- Description of Codex Leicestrensis at the CSNTM
- J. R. Harris, "The Origin of the Leicester Codex of the New Testament (London, 1887) at the Internet Archive
