Codex Climaci Rescriptus
| New Testament manuscript | |
| Name | Codex Climaci rescriptus |
|---|---|
| Text | Gospels |
| Date | 8th century |
| Script | Greek |
| Now at | Westminster College |
| Size | 23 cm by 15.5 cm |
| Type | mixed |
| Category | III |
Codex Climaci rescriptus, known as Uncial 0250 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 8th century (or 7th). The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, with numerous lacunae, on 33 parchment leaves (23 cm by 15.5 cm). Written in two columns per page, 31 lines per page, in uncial letters.[1]
It is a palimpsest, the upper text contains two Syriac treatises of Johannes Climacus.
Contents
Matt. 2:12-23; 3:13-15; 5:1-2.4.30-37; 6:1-4.16-18; 7:12.15-20; 8:7.10-13.16-17.20-21; 9:27-31.36; 10:5; 12:36-38.43-45; 13:36-46; 26:75-27:2.11.13-16.18.20.22-23.26-40;
Mark 14:72-15:2.4-7.10-24.26-28;
Luke 22:60-62.66-67; 23:3-4.20-26.32-34.38;
John 6:53-7:25.45.48-51; 8:12-44; 9:12-10:15; 10:41-12:3.6.9.14-24.26-35.44-49; 14:22-15:15; 16:13-18; 16:29-17:5; 18:1-9.11-13.18-24.28-29.31; 18:36-19:1.4.6.9.16.18.23-24.31-34; 20:1-2.13-16.18-20.25; 20:28-21:1.[2]
Location
Currently the codex is housed at the Westminster College in Cambridge.[1]
Text
The Greek text of this codex is mixed. Aland placed it in Category III.[1]
See also
References
- ^ a b c Kurt Aland, and Barbara Aland, The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism, transl. Erroll F. Rhodes, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1995, p. 126.
- ^ Kurt Aland, Synopsis Quattuor Evangeliorum. Locis parallelis evangeliorum apocryphorum et patrum adhibitis edidit, Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1996, p. XXVI.
Further reading
- A. S. Lewis, "Codex Climaci rescriptus", Horae semiticae 8 (Cambridge, 1909), pp. 27-31.
- I. A. Moir, "Codex Climaci rescriptus (Ms. Gregory 1561, L)", Texts and Studies NS, 2 (Cambridge, 1956).