Codex Petropolitanus (New Testament)

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Uncial 041
New Testament manuscript
Beginning of Luke
Beginning of Luke
Name Petropolitanus
Sign Π
Text Gospels
Date 9th-century
Script Greek
Found Tischendorf, 1859
Now at National Library of Russia
Size 14.5 x 10.5 cm
Type Byzantine text-type
Category V
Note member of the family Π

Codex Petropolitanus, designated by Π or 041 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 73 (von Soden),[1] is a Greek uncial manuscript of the Gospels, dated palaeographically to the 9th-century. The manuscript is lacunose.

Description

The codex contains an almost complete text of the four Gospels on 350 parchment leaves (14.5 cm by 10.5 cm) with some lacunae in Matt 3:12-4:17; 19:12-20:2; Luke 1:76-2:18; John 6:15-35; 8:6-39; 9:21-10:3. Texts of Mark 16:18-20 and John 21:22-25 were supplied by minuscule hand in the 12th-century.[2]

The text is written in one column per page, 21 lines per page.[3] The letters are small, with breathings, and accents.[2]

The tables of the κεφαλαια before each Gospel. The text is divided according to the Ammonian Sections with a references to the Eusebian Canons.[4]

The texts of John 5:4 and 8:3-6 are marked by an asterisk.[2]:{{{3}}}

Text

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type, in close relationship to the Codex Alexandrinus,[5] and other later uncials.[4] Together with Codex Cyprius it belongs to the textual family Π.[6][7] Aland placed it in Category V.[3]:{{{3}}}

Luke 9:55-56

στραφεις δε επετιμησεν αυτοις και ειπεν, Ουκ οιδατε ποιου πνευματος εστε υμεις; ο γαρ υιος του ανθρωπου ουκ ηλθεν ψυχας ανθρωπων απολεσαι αλλα σωσαι (but He turned and rebuked them and He said: "You do not know what manner of spirit you are of; for the Son of man came not to destroy men's lives but to save them) — as in codices Codex Cyprius 1079 1242 1546 (f1 omit γαρ) (Θ f13 omit υμεις and γαρ).[8]

History

Found

The manuscript belonged to the family Parodi in Smyrna. It was brought by Tischendorf in 1859.[2]:{{{3}}}

Present location

The codex is located in the National Library of Russia (Gr. 34) in Saint Petersburg.[3]:{{{3}}}[9]

See also

References

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  8. UBS3, p. 248.
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Further reading

  • C. v. Tischendorf, Notitia editionis codicis Bibliorum Sinaitici, 1860, pp. 51 f.
  • Silva Lake, Family Π and the Codex Alexandrinus: The Text According to Mark, S & D V (London 1937).
  • J. Greelings, Family Π in Luke, S & D XXII (Salt Lake City, 1962).
  • R. Champlin, Family Π in Matthew, S & D XXIV (Salt Lake City, 1964).
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