- Codex Mosquensis II
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For the similarly named manuscript, see Codex Mosquensis I.
New Testament manuscripts
papyri • uncials • minuscules • lectionariesUncial 031 Name Mosquensis II Sign V Text Gospels † Date 9th century Script Greek Found Athos Now at State Historical Museum Size 15.7 cm by 11.5 cm Type Byzantine text-type Category V Hand diligent 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 palaeographically to the 9th century.[1] The manuscript is lacunose.
Contents
Description
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 220 parchment leaves (15.7 cm by 11.5 cm), with some lacunae (Matthew 5:44-6:12, 9:18-10:1, 22:44-23:35, John 21:10-fin.). The leaves are arranged in octavo.[2]
The text of the manuscript is written in one column per page, 28 lines per page,[1] in small and fine uncial letters,[2] in a kind of stichometry. It contains accents, punctuation is rare.
The codex is written in uncial letters to John 8:39, where it breaks off, and from that point the text is continued in a minuscule hand from the 13th century.[3]
It contains Epistula ad Carpianum, the Eusebian tables, the tables of the κεφαλαια are placed before Gospels, but there are no a divisions according to the κεφαλαια. The text is divided only according to the Ammonian Sections, with a references to the Eusebian Canons; it has lectionary markings.[2] According to Matthaei it is written in a kind of stichometry by a diligent scribe.[4]
The manuscript contains a portion from Chronology of Hippolitus from Theben.[2]
John 8:39-21:10
The text of the Gospel of John 8:39-21:10 is written in minuscule letters on 10 parchment leaves.[5]
The text is divided according to the Ammonian Sections, whose numbers are given at the margin with references to the Eusebian Canons. It contains Synaxarion.
The minuscule text was designated by Griesbach as 87, by Scholz as 250.
Text
The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[1] It is a member of the textual family Family E.[6] It has some resemblance to Codex Campianus.[4]
It lacks the text of Matthew 16:2b–3 (the Signs of the Times).
History and present Location
Formerly the manuscript was held at the monastery Vatopedi at Athos peninsula. It was brought to Moscow in 1655,[2] by the monk Arsenius, on the suggestion of the Patriarch Nikon, in the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov (1645–1676). The manuscript was collated by C. F. Matthaei.[4]
It was collated by Matthaei in 1779 and in 1783. In 1783 the manuscript lacks only texts of Matthew 22:44-23:35, John 21:10-fin.[2] It was one of the best manuscripts of Matthaei.[4] Constantin von Tischendorf used work of Matthaei in his Novum Testamentum. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1868.[2] The manuscript was examined by Kurt Treu.[7]
The codex is located now in the State Historical Museum (V. 9).[1]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d Aland, Kurt; Barbara Aland; Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 113. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
- ^ a b c d e f g Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung. p. 76. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n89/mode/2up.
- ^ Bruce M. Metzger, Bart D. Ehrman, The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption and Restoration, Oxford University Press (Oxford, 2005), p. 80.
- ^ a b c d F. H. A. Scrivener, "A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament" (London 1894), Vol. 1, p. 224.
- ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 172. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n289/mode/2up.
- ^ F. Wisse, Family E and the Profile Method, Biblica 51, (1970), pp. 67-75.
- ^ Kurt Treu Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments in der UdSSR; eine systematische Auswertung des Texthandschriften in Leningrad, Moskau, Kiev, Odessa, Tbiblisi und Erevan, Texte und Untersuchungen 91 (Berlin, 1966), pp. 235-238
Further reading
- C. F. Matthaei, Novum Testamentum Graece et Latine, Riga, 1782–1788, IX, pp. 265 ff (as V)
Categories:- Greek New Testament uncials
- 9th-century biblical manuscripts
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