Codex Seidelianus I
| New Testament manuscript | |
 Codex Seidelianus I | |
| Name | Seidelianus I |
|---|---|
| Sign | Ge |
| Text | Gospels |
| Date | 9th century |
| Script | Greek |
| Now at | British Library |
| Size | 25.7 cm by 21.5 cm |
| Type | Byzantine text-type |
| Category | V |
| Hand | coarse |
Codex Seidelianus I, also known as Codex Wolfii A and Codex Harleianus,[1] is a Greek uncial manuscript of the Gospels written on parchment. It is designated by the siglum Ge or 011 in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts, and ε 87 in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts. Using the study of comparative writing styles (palaeography), it has been assigned to the 9th or 10th century.[2] The manuscript has some missing portions.
Description
[edit]The manuscript is a codex (precursor to the modern book format), containing the text of the four Gospels written on 252 parchment leaves (25.7 cm by 21.5 cm), with some gaps (Matthew 1:1-6:6, 7:25-8:9, 8:23-9:2, 28:18-Mark 1:13, Mark 14:19-25, Luke 1:1-13, 5:4-7:3, 8:46-9:5, 12:27-41, 24:41-end, John 18:5-19, 19:4-27).[3] The text is written 2 columns per page, 21 lines per page, by a "coarse hand."[2]
The text is divided according to the Ammonian Sections, whose numbers are given in the margin, with references to the Eusebian Canons (both early divisions of the gospels into referential sections). It contains the chapter titles (known as τιτλοι / titloi). It has breathings and accents, but often irregularly.[3] Each person mentioned anew in the genealogy in Luke 3 forms a separate line.[4] Some portions of the missing portions are supplied on new pages by a later hand.
Text
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The Greek text of this codex is considered to be a secondary representative of the Byzantine text-type, with many of the non-Byzantine readings appearing to reflect the Caesarean text-type. Biblical scholar Kurt Aland gave to it textual profile 1761 871/2 42 21a and placed it in Category V of his New Testament manuscript classification system.[2] Textual critic Hermann von Soden classified it to the family Ki. According to the Claremont Profile Method (a specific analysis of textual data), it belongs to the textual family Kx in Luke chapter 1, 20, and 20.[5]
History
[edit]The codex was brought from the East to Germany by scholar Andrew Erasmus Seidel († 1718). After his death in 1718, it was acquired by Maturin Veyssière de La Croze, the royal librarian in Berlin, and presented to Johann Christoph Wolf,[6][7] who published extracts from its text in 1723.[1]: 75 The codex was barbarously mutilated in 1721 in order to send pieces to Bentley. Most of them were purchased by Eduard Harley. Some fragments were found by biblical scholar Samuel P. Tregelles in 1845. Tregelles collated its text in 1847.[8]
The codex was known to textual critic Johann J. Wettstein, who gave it the siglum G.[6] Textual critic Johann J. Griesbach designated it by the same siglum.[9]
It later became part of the library of Edward Harley, and is now located in the British Library (shelf number Harley MS 5684), and one page, which Wolff gave to Richard Bentley, is in Cambridge (Trinity College B. XVII. 20).[2][10]
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ a b Metzger, Bruce Manning (1968). The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption and Restoration (2 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 74. ISBN 978-0-19-516122-9.
- ^ a b c d Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Translated by Erroll F. Rhodes. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 110. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
- ^ a b Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes [Textual Criticism of the New Testament] (in German). Vol. 1. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs. p. 51.
- ^ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. Vol. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 135.
- ^ Frederik Wisse, The Profile Method for the Classification and Evaluation of Manuscript Evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke, William B. Eerdmans Publishing, (Grand Rapids, 1982), p. 52
- ^ a b Wettstein, Johann Jakob (1751). Novum Testamentum Graecum editionis receptae cum lectionibus variantibus codicum manuscripts (in Latin). Vol. 1. Amsterdam: Ex Officina Dommeriana. p. 40. Retrieved November 14, 2010.
- ^ C. v. Tischendorf, Novum Testamentum Graece. Editio Septima, Lipsiae 1859, p. CLV.
- ^ Samuel Prideaux Tregelles, An Account of the Printed Text, pp. 159-160
- ^ J. J. Griesbach, Novum Testamentum Graece, Londini 1809, s. XCIX
- ^ "Liste Handschriften: Codex Seidelianus I (G)". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 16 March 2013.
Further reading
[edit]- J. C. Wolff, "Anecdota Graeca" (Hamburg, 1723), III, pp. 48–92.
- S. P. Tregelles, Account of the Printed Text, p. 160.
External links
[edit]- R. Waltz, Codex Seidelianus Ge (011): at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism (2007)
- Images at the British Library
- Harley MS 5684 BL