Codex Corbeiensis II explained

The Codex Corbeiensis II, designated by ff² or 8 (in the Beuron system), is a 5th-century Latin Gospel Book. The text, written on vellum, is a version of the old Latin. The manuscript contains 190 parchment folio with the text of the four Gospels with lacunae (Matt 1:1-11:16; Luke 9:48; 10:20.21; 11:45-12:6.7; John 17:15-18:9; 20:22-21:8).^[1] Written in a beautiful round uncial hand.

Gospels follow in the sequence: Matthew, Luke, John, Mark.^[1]

The Latin text of the codex is a representative Western text-type in itala recension. The text is akin to preserved in Codex Vercellensis and Codex Veronensis.^[2]

The manuscript formerly belonged to the monastic Library of Corbie Abbey, on the Somme, near Amiens; and with the most important part of that Library was transferred to St. Germain des Prés at Paris, about the year 1638, and was there numbered 195.^[3] It was quoted by Sabatier, Bianchini gave a collation in Mark, Luke, and John. Full text was published by Johannes Belsheim, Augustine Calmet,^[4] Migne, and Jülicher.^[1]

Currently it is housed at the National Library of France (Lat. 17225) at Paris.^[1]

See also

• List of New Testament Latin manuscripts
• Codex Corbeiensis I

Further reading

• Augustine Calmet, Commentarius literalis in omnes libros Novi Testamenti Latinis litteris traditus a Ioanne Dominico Mansi, Würzburg, Vol. 2 (1787), p. 276-302.
• Buchanan . E. S. . 1906 . The Codex Corbeiensis (ff. II . Journal of Theological Studies . VII . 26 . 236–267 . The Clarendon Press . 10.1093/jts/os-VII.26.236 . 2011-06-09 .
• E. S. Buchanan, The four Gospels from the Codex Corbeiensis ff² (Old Latin Biblical Texts, v; Oxford, 1907), pp. 1–96.
• A. Jülicher, Itala. Das Neue Testament in Altlateinischer Überlieferung, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York, 1976. (Marcus Evangelium)

External links

Manuscript images online at the National Library of France.

Notes and References

1. Bruce M. Metzger, The Early Versions of the New Testament, Oxford University Press, 1977, p. 296.
2. Bruce M. Metzger, The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration, Oxford University Press 2005, p. 102.
3. Book: Scrivener , Frederick Henry Ambrose . Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener . Edward Miller . . . 1894 . London . 4 . 2 . 46 .
4. Book: Gregory , Caspar René . Caspar René Gregory . Textkritik des Neuen Testaments . 1902 . Leipzig . 2 . 603 .