- Codex Basilensis A. N. IV. 4
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New Testament manuscripts
papyri • uncials • minuscules • lectionariesMinuscule 2815 Name Basilensis A.N.IV.4 Text Acts, Pauline epistles Date 12th century Script Greek Now at Basel University Library Size 15 cm x 10 cm Type Byzantine text-type Category V Minuscule 2815 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 253 (Soden). Formerly was labelled as 2ap in all catalogues, but it was renumbered by Aland. It is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, dated paleographically to the 12th century.[1]
Contents
Description
The codex contains a complete text of the Acts of the Apostles, General epistles, and Pauline epistles, 216 parchment leaves (15 by 10 cm). Written in one column per page, 27 lines per page.[1] Written on a parchment in an elegant minuscule. It contains short introduction to the books.[2]
The Greek text of the Gospels is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it as Ib1. Aland placed it in Category V.[3][4] In Pauline epistles text is close to the codices 206, 429, 522 and 1891.
In 1 Corinthians 2:14 it reads πνευματος (omit του θεου) along with Minuscule 216, 255, 330, 440, 451, 823, 1827, and syrp.[5]
In Hebrews 12:20 it has additional reading η βολιδι κατατοξευθησεται.[6]
History of the codex
The manuscript belonged to the Preaching Friars, then to Amerbach, a printer of Basle.[2]
This codex was used by Desiderius Erasmus in his first edition of his Novum Testamentum (1516). In result its readings became a basis for the Textus Receptus. Erasmus grounded on this copy, and he calles it exemplar mire castigatum. His binder cut off a considerable part of the margin.[2]
It was examined by Mill, Battier, and Wettstein.[2]
The codex is located now at the Basel University Library (Cod. A.N.IV.4), at Basel.
See also
- List of New Testament minuscules (2001–)
- Textual criticism
References
- ^ a b Kurt Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des neuen Testaments, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 212.
- ^ a b c d F. H. A. Scrivener, A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament (London 1894), Vol. 1, p. 284.
- ^ 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. 138. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
- ^ Nestle, Eberhard et Erwin; communiter ediderunt: B. et K. Aland, J. Karavidopoulos, C. M. Martini, B. M. Metzger (2001). Novum Testamentum Graece. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft. p. 714.
- ^ UBS3, p. 583.
- ^ NA26, p. 584.
Further reading
- Hermann von Soden, "Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte", Verlag von Arthur Glaue, Berlin 1902-1910.
- C. C. Tarelli, "Erasmus’s Manuscripts of the Gospels", JTS XLIV (1943), 155-162.
External links
Categories:- Greek New Testament minuscules
- 12th-century biblical manuscripts
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