Codex Montfortianus
Trinity College, Dublin | |
Size | 15.8 cm by 12 cm |
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Type | mixed, Byzantine text-type (Gospels, Acts) |
Category | III, V |
Note | marginalia |
Codex Montfortianus designated by 61 (in the
Description
The manuscript is a codex (precursor to the modern book), containing the entire text of the New Testament. The text is written in one column per page, 21 lines per page, on 455 paper leaves (15.8 cm by 12 cm).[4]
The text is divided according to the chapters (known as κεφαλαια / kephalaia), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their titles (known as τιτλοι / titloi) at the top of the pages. There is also another division according to the smaller
It contains prolegomena, the tables of contents (also known as κεφαλαια) before each book, and subscriptions at the end of each book, with numbers of lines in each gospel (known as στιχοι / stichoi). The titles of the books were written in red ink.[5]
The order of books are as follows: Gospels, Pauline epistles, Acts, General epistles (James, Jude, 1-2 Peter, 1-3 John), and the Book of Revelation.[5] The order of General epistles is the same as in Minuscule 326.
Text
The Greek text of the Gospels and Acts of this codex is considered a representative of the
In 1 John 5:6 it has textual variant δι' ὕδατος καὶ αἵματος καὶ πνεύματος ἁγίου (through water and blood and the Holy Spirit) together with the manuscripts: 39, 326, 1837.[9][n 1] Bart D. Ehrman identified this reading as an Orthodox corrupt reading.[10]
It contains a late-Vulgate-based version of the
History
It was the first Greek manuscript discovered to contain any version of the
It was described by Wettstein[13] and Orlando Dobbin.
The codex now is located at
See also
- List of New Testament minuscules
- Textus Receptus
- Textual criticism
Notes
- ^ For other variants of this verse see: Textual variants in the First Epistle of John.
References
- ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs. p. 50.
- ^ a b McDonald, Grantley (2011). Raising the Ghost of Arius: Erasmus, the Johannine Comma and Religious Difference in Early Modern Europe. Brussels: Leiden University doctoral dissertation. pp. 282, 319.
- ^ a b c d Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. Vol. 1. Edward Miller (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 200.
- ^ Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 50.
- ^ a b c d Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes. Vol. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. pp. 142–143.
- ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
- ^ Bruce M. Metzger, Bart D. Ehrman, The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption and Restoration, (Oxford University Press, 2005), p. 86.
- ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
- ^ UBS3, p. 823.
- ^ Bart D. Ehrman, The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1993, p. 60.
- ^ Bruce M. Metzger, Bart D. Ehrman, The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption and Restoration, (Oxford University Press, 2005), p. 88, 147.
- ^ S. P. Tregelles, "An Introduction to the Critical study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures", London 1856, p. 213-14.
- ^ Wettstein, J. J. (1751). Novum Testamentum Graecum editionis receptae cum lectionibus variantibus codicum manuscripts. Amsterdam: Ex Officina Dommeriana. p. 52.
Further reading
- Dobbin, Orlando T. (1854). The Codex Montfortianus: A Collation of this Celebrated Ms. in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, Throughout the Gospels and Acts, with the Greek Text of Wetstein, and with Certain Mss. in the University of Oxford. London: Samuel Bagster and Sons.
- T.K. Abbott (1891). "Note on the Codex Montfortianus". Hermathena. XVII: 203.
- Grantley McDonald, Biblical Criticism in Early Modern Europe: Erasmus, the Johannine Comma, and Trinitarian Debate (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016)
External links
- R. Waltz, Codex Montfortianus at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism (2007)
- Digital images of the manuscript online at Trinity College Dublin.