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.[]
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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.[] 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.[] It contains breatings and accents.[] 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.[] It contains John 5:3.4, the Pericope Adulterae marked on a margin.[] 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).[][] Soden included it to the textual family K1.<ref name = Soden/> Kurt Aland placed it in Category V.[]
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.[]
See also
References
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.
