Codex Laudianus
Latin - Greek diglot | |
Now at | Bodleian Library, Oxford |
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Size | 27 × 22 cm (10.6 × 8.7 in) |
Type | Western text-type |
Category | II |
Note | It contains Acts 8:37 |
Codex Laudianus, designated by Ea or 08 (in the
Description
The manuscript is a
.The text is written in two columns per page, 24 and more lines per page.[1] It is arranged in very short lines of only one to three words each.[2] The text is written colonmetrically.[2]
Text
The Greek text of this codex exhibits a mixture of text-types, usually the Byzantine, but there are many Western and some Alexandrian readings. According to Kurt Aland it agrees with the Byzantine text-type 36 times, and 21 times with the Byzantine when it has the same reading as the Alexandrian text. It agrees 22 times with the Alexandrian text against the Byzantine. It has 22 independent or distinctive readings (Sonderlesarten). Aland placed it in Category II.[1]
It contains Acts 8:37, as do the manuscripts 323, 453, 945, 1739, 1891, 2818, and several others. Most other Greek manuscripts do not contain Acts 8:37[3][4]
In Acts 12:25, the Latin text of the codex reads from Jerusalem to Antioch, along with 429, 945, 1739, p, syrp, copsa geo; The Majority Text reads εις Ιερουσαλημ (to Jerusalem);[5]
In Acts 16:10, it reads θεος along with
In Acts 18:26, it reads την οδον του κυριου along with manuscripts 1505, 2495, and lectionary 598.[7]
In
History
It was probably written in
"It was brought to England probably by
In the Thirty Years' War, it came into the possession of William Laud, who donated the manuscript to the Bodleian Library in Oxford in 1636, where it is still located (shelfmark: MS. Laud Gr. 35).
Thomas Hearne published a transcription of its text in 1715, but not a very good one. This was followed by a transcription done by Hansell in 1864, and then by Constantin von Tischendorf in 1870.[12]
The manuscript was examined by Johann Jakob Griesbach, Ropes, Motzo, Poole, Clark, Lagrange, and Walther.
See also
- List of New Testament uncials
- List of New Testament Latin manuscripts
- Textual criticism
Notes
- ^ For other variants of this verse see: Textual variants in the Acts of the Apostles.
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-19-516122-9.
- ^ Nestle-Aland, Novum Testamentum Graece, 26th edition, p. 345.
- ^ Bruce M. Metzger (2001). A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft. p. 316.
- ^ UBS3, p. 464.
- ^ NA26, p. 480
- ^ UBS3, p. 491.
- ^ NA26, p. 384.
- Frederic Kenyon, "Chapter VII: The Manuscripts of the New Testament", Our Bible and the ancient manuscripts (1939).
- ^ https://hab.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/en/blog/blog-post-28/ The travels of the Laudian Acts, accessed 2020-11-17.
- ^ Lapidge (1996), Anglo-Latin Literature, Vol.1, p. 411.
- ^ C. R. Gregory, "Canon and Text of the New Testament" (T. & T. Clark: Edinburgh 1907), p. 363
Further reading
- C. v. Tischendorf, Monumenta sacra IX, (Leipzig, 1870).
- J. H. Ropes, The Greek Text of Codex Laudianus, Harvard Theological Review XVI (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1923), pp. 175–186.
- Samuel Berger, Un ancien texte latin des Actes des Apôtres retrouvé dans un manuscrit provenant de Perpignan (Paris 1895), pp. 11–12.
External links
- Manuscripts given by Archbishop William Laud (1573-1645)
- R. Waltz, Codex Laudianus E (08), Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism (2007)
- Image from Codex Laudianus
- "Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 8 March 2011.
- MS. Laud Gr. 35 Images available on Digital Bodleian
- MS. Laud Gr. 35 In the Bodleian Libraries Catalogue of Medieval Manuscripts