Codex Zittaviensis Explained

The Codex Zittaviensis (No. 664 in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 502 (von Soden),[1] dedicated as Rahlfs 44, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the Old Testament and New Testament, on paper. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 15th century. The manuscript has complex contents.[2] [3] Gregory labelled it by 664e, 253a, 303p, and 106r. Scrivener labelled it by 605e, 233a, 243p, and 106r.[4]

Description

The codex contains the entire of the New Testament, on 233 paper leaves (size).[4]

The text is written in one column per page, 30 lines per page.[2] It contains Prolegomena, lists of the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια are placed before every book, the text is divided according to the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια, with Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: τιτλοι, subscriptions at the end of books, and stichoi.[5] [4]

It contains also the text of the Old Testament (the whole codex has 775 leaves) with the books of 1 Esdras, 4 Maccabees, Judith, Tobit. The order of books: Old Testament (Genesis–Esther), Gospels, Book of Acts, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles, and Apocalypse.[5]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden lists it to the textual family Kr. Kurt Aland placed it in Category V.[6]

According to the Claremont Profile Method it belongs to the textual family Kr in Luke 1; 10; 20.[7]

History

Scrivener dated the manuscript to the 14th century,[4] Gregory dated it to the 15th century.[5] Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 15th century.[3]

The manuscript once belonged to David Fleischmann († 1606), then to John Fleischmann, who in 1620 presented the manuscript to the Stadtbiliothek in Zittau.[5]

It was examined and collated by Christian Frederick Matthaei in 1801-1802, but this collation had lost.[5] [4] Ernst von Dobschütz examined the manuscript. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1889.[5]

The text of the Apocalypse was collated by Herman C. Hoskier.[8]

Currently the manuscript is housed at the Stadtbibliothek (A 1), in Zittau.[2] [3]

See also

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. Book: Gregory, Caspar René. Caspar René Gregory. Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. 1908. J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. Leipzig. 71.
  2. Book: Aland , K. . Kurt Aland . M. Welte . B. Köster . K. Junack . Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments . . 1994 . Berlin, New York . 86 . 3-11-011986-2 .
  3. http://intf.uni-muenster.de/vmr/NTVMR/ListeHandschriften.php Handschriftenliste
  4. Book: Scrivener , Frederick Henry Ambrose . Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener . Edward Miller . . . 1894 . London . 4 . 261 .
  5. Book: Gregory , Caspar René . Caspar René Gregory . Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 1 . 1900 . Leipzig . 210 .
  6. Book: Aland . Kurt . Kurt Aland . Aland . Barbara . Barbara Aland . Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) . The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism . . 1995 . Grand Rapids . 139 . limited . 978-0-8028-4098-1.
  7. Book: Wisse , Frederik . The Profile Method for the Classification and Evaluation of Manuscript Evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke . . 1982 . Grand Rapids . 64 . 0-8028-1918-4 . registration .
  8. Herman C. Hoskier, Concerning the Text of the Apocalypse: Collation of All Existing Available Greek Documents with the Standard Text of Stephen’s Third Edition Together with the Testimony of Versions, Commentaries and Fathers. vol. 1 (London: Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., 1929), pp. 330-337