Codex Athous Lavrentis

New Testament manuscript infobox
form=Uncial
number=044


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name=Athous Laurae
sign=Ψ
text=Gospels, Acts, Pauline epistles, CE
script=Greek
date=8th/9th century
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now at=Athos
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size=21 x 15.3 cm
type= mixed
cat= III/II
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Codex Athous Laurae (Gregory-Aland no. Ψ or 044) is a Greek uncial manuscript of the Gospels, Acts of Apostles, the Catholic Epistles, and the Pauline epistles. The codex contains 261 parchment leaves (21 cm by 15.3 cm). The codex is dated paleographically to the 8th or 9th century. The codex now is located, in Athos, in the monastery (Great Lavra B' 52). [Kurt Aland, and Barbara Aland, "The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism", transl. Erroll F. Rhodes, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1995, p. 118. ]

Description

Original codex contained entire of the New Testament except of the Book of Revelation. The Gospel of Matthew, the Mark 1:1-9:5, and one leaf from the Hebrews have been lost.
Catholic Epistles in unusual order (Peter, James, John, and Jude). The shorter ending of Mark is before the longer one (like in Codex Regius). It was written in one column per page, 31 lines per page.

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type, but with a large portion of Alexandrian, and some Western readings. In Gospel of Mark and the Catholic epistles it represents Alexandrian text-type. [Also Codex Sangallensis represents the Alexandrian text-type in Gospel of Mark , and the Byzantine in rest of the Gospels. ]
Kurt Aland placed it in Category III in Gospels, Acts, Pauline epistles, and in Category II in Catholic epistles.

See also

* List of New Testament uncials
* Textual criticism

References

Further readings

* Bruce M. Metzger, B.D. Ehrman, "The Text Of The New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption and Restoration", Oxford University Press, 2005.
* Kirsopp Lake, "Texts from Mount Athos", Studia biblica et ecclesiastica 5, Oxford 1902, pp. 89-185.

External links

* [http://www.skypoint.com/~waltzmn/ManuscriptsUncials.html#uPsi Codex Athous Lavrentis Ψ (044)] : at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism.