Codex Sangallensis 63

Codex Sangallensis 63 with the Comma Johanneum added later in a different hand

The Codex Sangallensis 63, designated S, is a 9^th century Latin manuscript of the New Testament. The text, written on vellum, is a version of the Latin Vulgate Bible and contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles, Epistles, Book of Revelation, and non-biblical material (an Etymological dictionary). The manuscript has not survived in a complete condition, some parts of it have been lost.^[1] The codex contains the Comma Johanneum.

Description

Codex Sangallensis contains 160 leaves (320 pages) arranged in quarto, in one thick volume. The measures of leaves are 22.3 by 19.2 cm. A single paper fly-leaf was added by a later hand. The text is written in 22 lines in one (pages 1-49) or two (pages 50-320) columns per page in Carolingian minuscule letters with black ink.^[2] The head-pieces are written in uncial letters, the initial letters are red. It has some margin notes.^[2][3] The order of books: Pauline epistles (folios 2-163), Acts (163-244), Catholic epistles (245-283), and Apocalypse (283-320). The text does not contain the second and third Epistle of John.^[4][5] The original codex did not contain the spurious text of the Comma Johanneum (in 1 John 5:7), but it was added by a later hand on the margin (see picture).^[4] The Comma:

sicut in caelo tres sunt pater uerbum et spiritus et tres sunt (as in heaven three are: the Father, the Word, and the Spirit, they are three).^[6]

History

The manuscript was examined and described by H. Brauer,^[7] A. Bruckner,^[8] G. Scherrer.^[9] It was digitised in 2008 and it is available on the site of the Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland.^[2] Palaeographically the manuscript is dated to the 9^th or 10^th century.^[2] Currently the manuscript is housed at the Abbey library of Saint Gall (63) in St. Gallen.^[2]

See also

Bible portal

• List of New Testament Latin manuscripts
• Codex Sangallensis 907

References

1. ^ Bruce M. Metzger, The Early Versions of the New Testament, Oxford University Press, 1977, p. 339.
2. ^ ^{a b c d e} Cod. Sang. 63 at the e-codices
3. ^ Rolf Bergmann, Yvonne Goldammer, Katalog der althochdeutschen und altsächsischen Glossenhandschriften, Walter de Gruyter, p. 468.
4. ^ ^{a b} Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. 2 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 86. 
5. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1902). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 2. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 632. ISBN 1-4021-6347-9. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne01greggoog#page/n165/mode/2up. 
6. ^ Biblia Sacra Vulgata, Stuttgartiana, Stuttgart 1983, p. 1878.
7. ^ H. Brauer, Die Bücherei von St. Gallen und das althochdeutsche Schrifttum, M. Niemeyer, 1926, p. 86.
8. ^ A. Bruckner, Scriptoria Medii Aevi Helvetica (1938), III, p. 25.
9. ^ Gallen Gustav Scherrer, Verzeichniss der Handschriften der Stiftsbibliothek von St. Gallen (Halle, 1975), p. 28.

Further reading

• Rolf Bergmann, Yvonne Goldammer, Katalog der althochdeutschen und altsächsischen Glossenhandschriften, Walter de Gruyter, p. 468.

External links

• Cod. Sang. 63 at the e-codices