Codex Veronensis

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The Codex Veronensis, designated by siglum b or 4 (in the Beuron system), is a 4th or 5th century Latin Gospel Book. The text, written on purple dyed vellum in silver and occasionally gold ink, is a version of the old Latin. The Gospels follow in the Western order.^[1]

Contents 1 Description 2 See also 3 References 4 Further reading 5 External links

Description

It has several lacunae (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).^[2] In this codex John 7:44-8:12 has been erased. The manuscript is defective.

In Luke 8:21 it reads αυτον instead of αυτους; the reading αυτον is supported by Papyrus 75, and Minuscule 705.^[3]

In John 1:34 reads ὁ ἐκλεκτός together with the manuscripts ⁵, ¹⁰⁶, א, e, ff², syr^{c, s}.

In John 14:14 the entire verse is omitted along with manuscripts X f¹ 565 1009 1365 ℓ 76 ℓ 253 vg^mss syr^{s, pal} arm geo Diatessaron.^[4]

The Latin text of the codex is a representative of the Western text-type in European recension.^[5] In Francis Crawford Burkitt's opinion (the Divinity scholar who worked in the early 20th century), it represents the type of text that Jerome used as the basis of the Vulgate.^[6]

The manuscript was examined by Giuseppe Bianchini in the mid-18th century. The text was edited by Bianchini, Belsheim,^[7] and Jülicher.^[1]

It was named Veronensis after Verona, where it was located.

See also

• List of New Testament Latin manuscripts
• Purple parchment

References

• 1. Bruce M. Metzger, The Early Versions of the New Testament, Oxford University Press, 1977, p. 296.
• 2. Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. 2 (fourth ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 45.
• 3. NA26, p. 181
• 4. UBS3, p. 390.
• 5. Gregory, Caspar René (1902). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 2. Leipzig. p. 601. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne01greggoog#page/n133/mode/2up.
• 6. Bruce M. Metzger, The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration, Oxford University Press 2005, p. 102.
• 7. J. Belsheim, Codex Veronensis. Quattuor Evangelia (Prague, 1904).

Further reading

• J. Belsheim, 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. (Marcus Evangelium)

External links

• Image from Codex Veronensis