Codex Athous Dionysiou

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Codex Athous Dionysiou, designated by Ω or 045 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 61 (von Soden), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament. The codex is dated paleographically to the 9th century.<ref name = Aland>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, transl. Erroll F. Rhodes, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1995, p. 118. </ref>

Description

The codex contains almost a complete text of the four Gospels 259 thick parchment leaves (22 cm by 16 cm), with only one lacuna in Gospel of Luke 1:15-28.<ref name = Metzger/> Written in two columns per page, 19-22 lines per page,<ref name = Aland/> 13-15 letters per line. Ink is brown. Letters are large, first lines in red ink. It contains lists of κεφαλαια, κεφαλαια, τιτλοι, Ammonian Sections (Mark 234), Eusebian Canons, lectionary equipment on a margin, pictures, Synaxarion, Menologion, subscriptions, and στιχοι.<ref name = Gregory>C. R. Gregory, „Textkritik des Neuen Testaments“, Leipzig 1900, Bd. 1, p. 95.</ref> It contains breatings and accents.<ref name = Gregory/> It has errors of itacism, full of hiatus and another errors.

The text of Matthew 16:2b-3 and Luke 22:43-44 are marked by obelus.<ref name = Gregory/> It contains John 5:3.4, the Pericope Adulterae marked on a margin.<ref name = Gregory/> Matthew 21:20 omitted but added on the margin by original scribe.

Text

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type, with some Alexandrian readings. According to Hermann von Soden it is one of the three oldest manuscripts that present the earliest variety of the Byzantine text-type (after S and V).<ref name = Soden>Hermann von Soden, Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments, pp. 718-721, 765-774. </ref><ref name = Metzger>Bruce M. Metzger, Bart D. Ehrman, The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption and Restoration, Oxford University Press, 2005, p. 86.</ref> Soden included it to the textual family K¹.<ref name = Soden/> Kurt Aland placed it in Category V.<ref name=Aland/>

In John 5:25 it has "Son of Man" instead of "Son of God". City Nazareth is transcribe in two ways as Ναζαρεθ (Alexandrian) and Ναζαρετ (Byzantine), name Mose as Μωυσης (Alexandrian) and Μωσης (Byzantine). In John 1:28 it has Alexandrian variant βηθανια.

History

It was collated by Mary W. Winslow, and edited by Kirsopp Lake and Silva New.

The codex is located now, at the Dionysiou monastery (10) 55, in Athos.<ref name = Aland/>

See also

• List of New Testament uncials
• Textual criticism

References

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Further reading

Collation

• Kirsopp Lake and Silva New, Six Collations of New Testament Manuscripts Harvard Theological Studies, XVII, (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1932; 2007), pp. 3-25.

Articles

• Russell Champlin, Family E and Its Allies in Matthew (Studies and Documents, XXIII; Salt Lake City, UT, 1967).
• J. Greelings, Family E and Its Allies in Mark (Studies and Documents, XXXI; Salt Lake City, UT, 1968).
• J. Greelings, Family E and Its Allies in Luke (Studies and Documents, XXXV; Salt Lake City, UT, 1968).
• Frederik Wisse, Family E and the Profile Method, Biblica 51, (1970), pp. 67-75.

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