Minuscule 2814

Minuscule 2814

New Testament manuscript

Facsimile of Franz Delitzsch (1861) with text of Rev 17,8
Text Book of Revelation
Date 12th century
Script Greek
Now at University of Augsburg
Type Byzantine text-type
Category V

Minuscule 2814 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), Aν20 (Soden). Formerly it was labelled as 1rK in all catalogues,[1] but it was renumbered as a 2814 by Aland. It is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, dated palaeographically to the 12th century.[2]

Description

The codex contains the Book of Revelation with a commentary of Andreas from Caesarea. Last six verses were lost (22:16-21). The text is written on a parchment in minuscule, in 1 column per page, 20 lines per page.[2]

The Greek text of the Gospels is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[3]

λυσαντι ημας εκ — P18, אc, A, C, 2020, 2081, 2814
λουσαντι ημας απο — P, 046, 94, 1006, 1859, 2042, 2065, 2073, 2138, 2432

History of the codex

This codex was chiefly used by Desiderius Erasmus as a basis for his first edition of the Novum Testamentum (1516). It was the only Greek manuscript of the Book of Revelation used by Erasmus.[4] Erasmus translated the missing last six verses from the Vulgate back to Greek for his editions. As a result its readings and his translation became a basis for the Textus Receptus. Erasmus borrowed the manuscript from Reuchlin, but it was lost for many years until rediscovered in 1861 by Franz Delitzsch.[5]

The manuscript was included to a critical apparatus by Kurt Aland in his 25th edition of Novum Testamentum Graece (1963).[6]

The codex was located in Harburg (Öttingen-Wallersteinsche Bibliothek), and was transferred together with the whole library to the library of University of Augsburg (I, 1, 4 (0), 1).[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 48.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 211.
  3. ↑ Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 140. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
  4. ↑ W.W. Combs, Erasmus and the textus receptus, DBSJ 1 (Spring 1996), 45.
  5. ↑ F. Delizsch, Handschriftliche Funde, Leipzig, 1861.
  6. ↑ Michael W. Holmes, From Nestle to the `Editio Critica Maior`, in: The Bible as Book: The Transmission of the Greek Text, London 2003, p. 128. ISBN 0-7123-4727-5

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