Codex Mosquensis II

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For the similarly named manuscript see Codex Mosquensis I Codex Mosquensis II designated by V or 031 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 75 (von Soden), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the Gospels, 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. 113. </ref>

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 220 parchment leaves (15.7 cm by 11.5 cm), with some lacunae (Matt 5:44-6:12, 9:18-10:1, 22:44-23:35, John 21:10-fin.). Written in one column per page, 28 lines per page.<ref name = Aland/> The codex written in uncial letters to John 7:39, where it breaks off, and from that point the text is continued in a minuscule hand from the 13th century.<ref>Bruce M. Metzger, Bart D. Ehrman, The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption and Restoration, Oxford University Press (Oxford, 2005), p. 80. </ref>

It contains Epistula ad Carpianum and the Eusebian Canons.<ref name = Gregory>C. R. Gregory, "Textkritik des Neuen Testaments", Leipzig 1900, vol. 1, p. 76. </ref> According to Matthaei it is written in a kind of stichometry by a diligent scribe.<ref name = Scrivener/>

Text

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.<ref name=Aland/> It is a member of the textual family Family E.<ref>F. Wisse, Family E and the Profile Method, Biblica 51, (1970), pp. 67-75.</ref> It has some resemblance to to Codex Campianus.<ref name = Scrivener/>

History and present Location

The codex together with other manuscripts came from the monastery Vatopedi at Athos to Moscow in 1655,<ref name = Gregory/> where is located now in the Museum of History of Moscow (V. 9).<ref name = Aland/> It was collated by Matthaei in 1779. It is one of the best manuscripts of Matthaei.

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