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New Testament manuscripts
papyri • uncials • minuscules • lectionariesUncial 054 Name Codex Barberini Text Gospel of John Date 8th century Script Greek Found Barberini 17th Now at Vatican Library Size 29 x 18.5 cm Type Byzantine text-type Category V Uncial 054 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 73 (Soden), also known as Codex Barberini, is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated paleographically to the 8th century.[1]
Contents
Description
The codex contains a part of the Gospel of John (16:3-19:41), with a commentary on 6 parchment leaves (29 cm by 18.5 cm). It is written in one column per page, 36 lines per page,[1] in about 27 letters in line. The letters are small, parchment is thick, ink is brown. It contains lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical service).[2]
The text is divided according to the Ammonian Sections, whose numbers are given in the margin of text, but without references to the Eusebian Canons.[3]
It belongs to the same manuscript to which minuscule codex 392 belongs (folios 7-391).
The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type, with some non-Byzantine readings. Aland, with some hesitation, placed it in Category V.[1]
History
Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 8th century.[4]
It was found in the 17th century by cardinal Francesco Barberini (hence name of the codex).[3] It was examined by Scholz. The text of the codex was published by Tischendorf in 1846 (Monumenta sacra).[5]
The codex is located now in the Vatican Library (Barberini Gr. 521, fol. 1-6).[1][4]
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. 118. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
- ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. pp. 83–84. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n95/mode/2up.
- ^ a b Scrivener F.H.A., A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, George Bell & Sons: Cambridge 1861, p. 119.
- ^ a b "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php. Retrieved 9 April 2011.
- ^ C. Tischendorf, Monumenta sacra (1846), proleg., p. 13; Text pp. 37 ff. and plate, no. 5.
Further reading
- Constantin von Tischendorf, Monumenta sacra et profana (Leipzig: 1846), pp. 37 ff.
Categories:- Greek New Testament uncials
- 8th-century biblical manuscripts
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