Codex Vercellensis
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Vercelli manuscript
)The title Codex Vercellensis Evangeliorum refers to two manuscript codices preserved in the cathedral library of Vercelli, in the Piedmont Region, Italy.
Old Latin Codex Vercellensis
The
C. H. Turner in 1928) depends on unverifiable assumptions that only four pages have been lost, that the scribe did not accidentally skip any text, and that the person who made the replacement-page had access to the missing page that it replaced. However Turner did not explain why a scribe would replace only one of four pages. It is more probable that the replacement-page was removed from another manuscript than that it was made to insert in Codex Vercellensis. The text of Codex Vercellensis is related to the text of Codex Corbeiensis II
(ff2), another Old Latin copy (in which Mark 16:9-20 is included).
According to a respectable tradition, this codex was written under the direction of bishop Eusebius of Vercelli, which would date it to the late fourth century.
It contains the Euthalian Apparatus.[1]
It was restored and stabilised in the early twentieth century. Having been used for the taking of oaths in the early Middle Ages, much of it is either difficult to read or even destroyed, so that we are frequently dependent on the earlier editors for knowledge of its text.
Textual features
In
Matthew 27:9 in the sentence fulfilled what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, the Codex omits the word Jeremiah (Ieremiam), just like in the manuscripts: Codex Beratinus, Minuscule 33
, Old-Latin Codex Veronensis (b), syrs, syrp, and copbo.
In
It also has several omissions called Western non-interpolations.
See also
References
- ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1902). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 2. Leipzig. pp. 598–599.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ UBS4, p. 311.
Bibliography
- Giovanni Andrea Irico edition (Sacrosanctus Evangeliorum Codex Sancti Eusebii Vercellensis, 2 volumes, Milan, 1748)[1]
- G. Bianchini edition (Rome, 1749; reprinted in Migne, Patrologia Latina, xii, cols. 141-338)
- J. Belsheim edition (Codex Vercellensis, Christiania, 1897)
- A. Gasquet edition (Codex Vercellensis, Collectanea biblica Latina, iii; Roma, 1914)
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- Catholic Encyclopedia: "St. Eusebius (of Vercelli)" (Gospels Codex)
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