- Codex Seidelianus I
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For the similarly named manuscript, see Codex Seidelianus II.
New Testament manuscripts
papyri • uncials • minuscules • lectionariesUncial 011 
Matthew 5:30-31Name 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, designated by siglum Ge or 011 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 87 (von Soden) is a Greek uncial manuscript of the Gospels, dated palaeographically to the 9th century (or 10th century). The codex contains 252 parchment leaves (25.7 cm by 21.5 cm).[1] The manuscript is lacunose.
Contents
Description
The codex contains the text of the four Gospels with some lacunae (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).[2] The text is written in 2 columns per page, 21 lines per page.[1] It was written by coarse hand.
The text is divided according to the Ammonian Sections, whose numbers are given at the margin, with references to the Eusebian Canons. It contains the τιτλοι (titles of chapters). It has breathings and accents, but often irregularly.[2] Each member of the genealogy in Luke 3 forms a separate line.[3] Some portions of these lacunae are rectified by a later hand.
Text
The Greek text of this codex is a secondary representative of the Byzantine text-type with many of the non-Byzantine readings seeming to be the Caesarean. Aland placed it in Category V.[1] Hermann von Soden classified it to the family Ki, but according to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to the textual family Kx.[4]
History
The codex was brought from the East to Germany by Seidel († 1718). After his death in 1718 La Croze, librarian from Berlin acquired it and presented to Wolf,[5][6] who published extracts from its text in 1723.[7] The codex was barbarously mutilated in 1721 in order to send pieces to Bentley. Most of them were purchased by Eduard Harley. Some of fragments were found by Tregelles in 1845. Tregelles collated its text in 1847.[8]
The codex was known for Wettstein, who gave siglum G for it.[5] Griesbach designated it by the same siglum.[9]
Later it became part of the library of Edward Harley, now is located, in the British Library (Harley 5684), and one page, which Wolff gave to Richard Bentley, is in Cambridge in the (Trinity College B. XVII. 20).[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. 110. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
- ^ a b Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung. p. 51. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n63/mode/2up.
- ^ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. 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) (in Latin). Novum Testamentum Graecum editionis receptae cum lectionibus variantibus codicum manuscripts. 1. Amsterdam: Ex Officina Dommeriana. p. 40. http://www.archive.org/stream/hekainediatheken00clem#page/40/mode/2up. Retrieved November 14 2010.
- ^ C. v. Tischendorf, Novum Testamentum Graece. Editio Septima, Lipsiae 1859, p. CLV
- ^ Metzger, Bruce M. (1968). The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption and Restoration (2 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 75. ISBN 978-0-19-516122-9.
- ^ Samuel Prideaux Tregelles, An Account of the Printed Text, pp. 159-160
- ^ J. J. Griesbach, Novum Testamentum Graece, Londini 1809, s. XCIX
Further reading
- J. C. Wolff, "Anecdota Graeca" (Hamburg, 1723), III, pp. 48–92.
- S. P. Tregelles, Account of the Printed Text, p. 160.
External links
- Codex Seidelianus Ge (011): at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism
- Images at the British Library
Categories:- Greek New Testament uncials
- 9th-century biblical manuscripts
- Harleian Collection
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