Minuscule 42

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| form = Minuscule | number = 42 | image = | isize = | caption= | name = Codex Maedicaeus | sign = | text = Acts, Paul, Rev | script = Greek | date = 11th century | found = | now at = Stadtarchiv Frankfurt (Oder) | cite = | size = | type = Byzantine, Caesarean | cat = none | hand = carelessly written | note = marginalia

Minuscule 42 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α107 (Von Soden), known as Codex Maedicaeus is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century.{{Cite book | last = Aland | first = Kurt | author-link = Kurt Aland | author2 = M. Welte | author3=B. Köster | author4=K. Junack | title = Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments | publisher = Walter de Gruyter | year = 1994 | location = Berlin, New York | page = 49 | isbn = 3-11-011986-2 }} It has marginalia.

Description

The codex contains the text of the Acts, Catholic epistles, Paul, Rev, on 303 parchment leaves (), with some lacunae (Acts 2:2-34; 2 Pt 1:2; 1 John 5:11-21; Rev 18:3-13). The text is written in one column per page, 22-23 lines per page.

It contains lists of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each book, numbers of the κεφαλαια (chapters) at the margin, but no τιτλοι (titles) at the top of the pages, lectionary equipment at the margin (for liturgical use), and numbers of stichoi. According to F. H. A. Scrivener it is carelessly written.

According to the subscription at the end of the Epistle to the Romans, the Letter was written προς Ρωμαιους εγραφη απο Κορινθου δια Φοιβης της διακονου; the same subscription appears in manuscripts: 90, 216, 339, 462, 466*, 642;

Text

Kurt Aland the Greek text of the codex did not assigned in any Category.{{Cite book | last = Aland | first = Kurt | author-link = Kurt Aland | last2 = Aland | first2 = Barbara | author-link2 = Barbara Aland | others = Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) | title = The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism | publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company | year = 1995 | location = Grand Rapids | page = 138 | url = https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt | url-access = limited | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}

Its text has some resemblance with minuscule 51 and the Complutensian Polyglot.

According to Scrivener codex "exhibits many readings of the same class as codices 1, 13, 33, but its authority has the less weight".{{Cite book | last = Scrivener | first = Frederick Henry Ambrose | author-link = Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener | author2 = Edward Miller | title = A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament | publisher = George Bell & Sons | year = 1894 | edition = 4 | location = London | volume = 1 | pages = 287–288

In Revelation 8:13, it gives the unique reading of "ἀγγέλου ὡς ἀετοῦ" (angel like an eagle).

History

Currently the manuscrit has been assigned by the INTF to the 11th century.

The codex was used by Ludolph Kuster in edition of Mill's Novum Testamentum in 1710. Mill ascribed it as "exemplar Regium Maedicaeum", and remarked its resemblance to the Codex Angelicus.{{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes | publisher = Hinrichs | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 267 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n279/mode/2up

It was added to the list of the New Testament manuscripts by Wettstein. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1891.

It is currently housed at the Stadtarchiv Frankfurt (Oder) (Gr. 24) at Frankfurt (Oder).

References

References

  1. Gregory, Caspar René. (1908). "Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament". J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung.
  2. "Liste Handschriften". Institute for New Testament Textual Research.
  3. Bruce M. Metzger, ''A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament'' (2001), p. 477.
  4. Bruce M. Metzger, ''A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament'' (2001), p. 669.

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