Codex Guelferbytanus A

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For the similarly named manuscript see Codex Guelferbytanus B

Codex Guelferbytanus A designated by P^e or 024 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 33 (von Soden), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the Gospels, dated paleographically to the 6th century.

Contents 1 Description 2 See also 3 References 4 Further reading

Description

The codex contains the text of the Gospels in a very fragmentary condition on 44 leaves (26.5 cm by 21.5 cm). Written in two columns per page, 24 lines per column.^[1]

Contents

Matt 1:11-21; 3:13-4:19; 10:7-19; 10:42-11:11; 13:40-50; 14:15-15:3.29-39;

Mark 1:2-11; 3:5-17; 14:13-24.48-61; 15:12-37;

Luke 1:1-13; 2:9-20; 6:21-42; 7:32-8:2; 8:31-50; 9:26-36; 10:36-11:4; 12:34-45; 14:14-25; 15:13-16:22; 18:13-39; 20:21-21:3; 22:3-16; 23:20-33; 23:45-24:1; 24:14-37;

John 1:29-40; 2:13-25; 21:1-11.

The notation of the Ammonian Sections is given in the margin of text, but without reference to the Eusebian Canons. It contains nomina sacra and errors of iotacism. The nomina sacra attested in this uncial fragment are ΙΣ, ΧΣ (Christos, Christ), ΚΣ (Kurios, Lord) ΘΣ, ΥΣ, ΠΗΡ, ΠΝΑ, ΙΛΗΜ, ΑΝΟΣ, and ΔΑΔ. The number "fourty" is also written using an abbreviation — Μ. All the abbreviations are marked with the superscript bar.^[2]

It is a palimpsest. The upper text is in Latin, it contains Isidore of Seville's Origines and letters (as in Codex Guelferbytanus B). The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.^[1]

History

It was discovered in the 18th century by F. A. Knittel in the Ducal Library of Wolfenbüttel. ^[2] The text of the codex was published in fascimile by F. A. Knittel in 1762 at Brunswick,^[2] and collated by Tischendorf in 1860.

The codex is located at the Herzog August Bibliothek (Weissenburg 64) in Wolfenbüttel.^[1]

See also

• List of New Testament uncials
• Textual criticism

References

• 1. Kurt Aland, and Barbara Aland, The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction t the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism, 1995, Grand Rapids, Michigan, p. 113.
• 2. F. H. A. Scrivener, "A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament" (George Bell & Sons: London 1894), Vol. 1, pp. 143-144.

Further reading

• K. Tischendorf, Monumenta Sacra VI (Leipzig, 1869), pp. 249-338.
• A. Cavallo, "Richerche sulla maiuscola biblica" (Florence, 1967), p. 92.