Codex Chisianus 45

Codex Chisianus 45 (also Codex Chigianus 45; Vatican Library, Chigi R. VII 45; numbered 88 in Rahlfs Septuagint manuscripts, 87 in Field's Hexapla^[1]) is a 10th-century^{[citation needed]} biblical manuscript, first edited in 1772.

Description

The content of the so-called

(dated 616/7), which contains a Syriac translation of Origen's recension, has been adduced to corroborate the authenticity of the Greek text of Codex Chisianus.

The Septuagint text of the Book of Daniel had disappeared almost entirely from Greek tradition at the end of the 4th century, being superseded by the revised text of

critique of the translation of Daniel attested in the Codex Chisianus.

Indeed, the greater part of this Chisian Daniel cannot be said to deserve the name of a translation at all. It deviates from the original in every possible way; transposes, expands, abridges, adds or omits, at pleasure. The latter chapters it so entirely rewrites that the predictions are perverted, sometimes even reversed, in scope.^[2]

The papyrus was housed at the

until 1922. It was given to the Vatican Library. It was the only surviving version of the original Septuagint text of the Book of Daniel until the 1931 discovery of Papyrus 967 (Chester Beatty IX/X).

See also

• Susanna (Book of Daniel)

References

External links

• Codex Chisianus 45. Entry in the Manuscript Database of the Göttinger Septuaginta by Georgi Parpulov, published 30 June 2023