Codex Boernerianus
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| Uncial 012 | |
.JPG/250px-G(012).JPG) Fragment from first page of codex |
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| Name | Boernerianus |
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| Sign | Gp |
| Text | Paul |
| Date | c. 900 |
| Script | Greek/Latin diglot |
| Found | Abbey of St. Gall, Switzerland |
| Now at | Saxon State Library Dresden |
| Size | 25 x 18 cm |
| Type | Western |
| Category | III |
Codex Boernerianus (Gregory-Aland no. Gp or 012) is a small New Testament codex, measuring 25 x 18 cm, which was probably written in the Abbey of St. Gall, Switzerland in the 9th century. It contains the letters of Paul (but does not contain Hebrews) on 99 vellum leaves. The text is in Greek with an interlinear Latin translation inserted above the Greek text. The text of the codex contains six lacunae (Romans 1:1-4, 2:17-24, 1 Cor. 3:8-16, 6:7-14, Col. 2:1-8, Philem. 21-25).
The codex got its name from its first German owner, University of Leipzig professor Christian Friedrich Boerner, who bought it in Holland in the year 1705. During World War II it suffered severely from water damage. Some scholars believe that, originally, this codex formed a unit with the Gospel manuscript Codex Sangallensis (Δ/037). Boernerianus is now housed in the Saxon State Library Dresden, Germany, while Δ/037 is at Saint Gallen, in Switzerland.
The Greek text of this codex is representative of the Western text-type. Aland placed it in Category III.
[edit] See also:
[edit] External links
- Manuscript Gp (012) at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism
- Codex Boernerianus GP (012) at the CSNTM
[edit] For further readings
- W.H.P. Hatch, On the Relationship of Codex Augiensis and Codex Boernerianus of the Pauline Epistles, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 60, 1951, pp. 187-199.
- A. Reichardt, Der Codex Boernerianus. Der Briefe des Apostels Paulus, Verlag von Karl W. Hiersemann, Leipzig 1909.
- Ph. Comfort, Encountering the Manuscripts: An Introduction to New Testament Paleography and Textual Criticism, Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005.
- B.M. Metzger, Manuscripts of the Greek Bible: An Introduction to Palaeography, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1981.
