- Codex Petropolitanus (New Testament)
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For the similarly named manuscript, see Codex Petropolitanus Purpureus.
New Testament manuscripts
papyri • uncials • minuscules • lectionariesUncial 041 
Beginning of LukeName Petropolitanus Sign Π Text Gospels Date 9th century Script Greek Found Tischendorf, 1859 Now at National Library of Russia Size 14.5 x 10.5 cm Type Byzantine text-type Category V Note member of the family Π Codex Petropolitanus, designated by Π or 041 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 73 (von Soden), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the Gospels, dated palaeographically to the 9th century. The manuscript is lacunose.
Contents
Description
The codex contains an almost complete text of the four Gospels on 350 parchment leaves (14.5 cm by 10.5 cm) with some lacunae in Matt 3:12-4:17; 19:12-20:2; Luke 1:76-2:18; John 6:15-35; 8:6-39; 9:21-10:3. Texts of Mark 16:18-20 and John 21:22-25 were supplied by minuscule hand in the 12th century.[1]
The text is written in one column per page, 21 lines per page.[2] The letters are small, with breathings, and accents.[1]
The tables of the κεφαλαια before each Gospel. The text is divided according to the Ammonian Sections with a references to the Eusebian Canons.[3]
The texts of John 5:4 and 8:3-6 are marked by asterisk.[1]
Text
The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type, in close relationship to the Codex Alexandrinus,[4] and other later uncials.[3] Together with Codex Cyprius belongs to the family Π.[5][6] Aland placed it in Category V.[2]
Luke 9:55-56
- στραφεις δε επετιμησεν αυτοις και ειπεν, Ουκ οιδατε ποιου πνευματος εστε υμεις; ο γαρ υιος του ανθρωπου ουκ ηλθεν ψυχας ανθρωπων απολεσαι αλλα σωσαι (but He turned and rebuked them and He said: "You do not know what manner of spirit you are of; for the Son of man came not to destroy men's lives but to save them) — as in codices Codex Cyprius 1079 1242 1546 (f1 omit γαρ) (Θ f13 omit υμεις and γαρ)[7]
History
- Found
The manuscript belonged to the family Parodi in Smyrna. It was brought by Tischendorf in 1859.[1]
- Present location
The codex is located in the National Library of Russia (Gr. 34) in Saint Petersburg.[2]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung. p. 92. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n105/mode/2up.
- ^ a b c 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. 118. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
- ^ a b 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. 163.
- ^ Bruce M. Metzger, Bart D. Ehrman, The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration, Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. 83-84.
- ^ Kirsopp Lake, "Family Π and the Codex Alexandrinus. The Text According to Mark", London 1936.
- ^ Wisse, Frederik (1982). The profile method for the classification and evaluation of manuscript evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 52. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
- ^ UBS3, p. 248.
Further reading
- C. Tischendorf, Notitia editionis codicis Bibliorum Sinaitici, pp. 51 f.
- Silva Lake, Family Π and the Codex Alexandrinus: The Text According to Mark, S & D V (London 1937).
- J. Greelings, Family Π in Luke, S & D XXII (Salt Lake City, 1962).
- R. Champlin, Family Π in Matthew, S & D XXIV (Salt Lake City, 1964).
- Bousset, Wilhelm (1894). Die Gruppe K Π (M) in den Evangelien. Texte und Untersuchungen. 11. Leipzig. pp. 111–135. http://www.archive.org/stream/MN41429ucmf_4#page/n9/mode/2up. Retrieved November 14 2010.
External links
- Codex Petropolitanus Π (041): at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism
- Codex Petropolitanus Π (041): at the Russian National Library
Categories:- Greek New Testament uncials
- 9th-century biblical manuscripts
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