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Codex Monacensis designed by X or 033 (in the Gregory-Aland
Biblical manuscript

A Biblical manuscript is any handwritten copy of a portion of the text of the Bible. The word Bible comes from the Greek biblion ; manuscript comes from Latin manu and scriptum ....
 numbering), A3 (von Soden
Biblical manuscript

A Biblical manuscript is any handwritten copy of a portion of the text of the Bible. The word Bible comes from the Greek biblion ; manuscript comes from Latin manu and scriptum ....
), is a Greek
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
 uncial
Uncial

Uncial is a majuscule script commonly used from the 3rd to 8th centuries AD by Latin and Byzantine Empire scribes. Uncial letters are written in either Greek, Latin, or Gothic....
 manuscript
Manuscript

A manuscript is any document that is written by hand, as opposed to being printed or reproduced in some other way. The term may also be used for information that is hand-recorded in other ways than writing, for example inscriptions that are chiselled upon a hard material or scratched as with a knife point in plaster or with a stylus on a wa...
 of the Gospels, dated paleographically to the 9th or 10th century.


codex contains portions of the four Gospels on 160 parchment leaves (37.5 cm by 25.5 cm) in Western order: Matthew, John, Luke, and Mark. The codex survived is in a fragmentary condition.






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Codex Monacensis designed by X or 033 (in the Gregory-Aland
Biblical manuscript

A Biblical manuscript is any handwritten copy of a portion of the text of the Bible. The word Bible comes from the Greek biblion ; manuscript comes from Latin manu and scriptum ....
 numbering), A3 (von Soden
Biblical manuscript

A Biblical manuscript is any handwritten copy of a portion of the text of the Bible. The word Bible comes from the Greek biblion ; manuscript comes from Latin manu and scriptum ....
), is a Greek
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
 uncial
Uncial

Uncial is a majuscule script commonly used from the 3rd to 8th centuries AD by Latin and Byzantine Empire scribes. Uncial letters are written in either Greek, Latin, or Gothic....
 manuscript
Manuscript

A manuscript is any document that is written by hand, as opposed to being printed or reproduced in some other way. The term may also be used for information that is hand-recorded in other ways than writing, for example inscriptions that are chiselled upon a hard material or scratched as with a knife point in plaster or with a stylus on a wa...
 of the Gospels, dated paleographically to the 9th or 10th century.

Contents

  • Gospel of Matthew
    Gospel of Matthew

    The Gospel of Matthew is one of the four canonical gospels in the New Testament and is a synoptic gospel. It narrates an account of the New Testament view on Jesus' life and Ministry of Jesus of Jesus of Nazareth....
     6:6, 10, 11, 7:1-9:20, 9:34-11:24, 12:9-16:28, 17:14-18:25, 19:22-21:13, 21:28-22:22, 23:27-24:2, 24:23-35, 25:1-30, 26:69-27:12,
  • Gospel of John
    Gospel of John

    The Gospel of John is the fourth gospel in the Biblical canon of the New Testament, traditionally ascribed to John the Evangelist. Like the three synoptic gospels, it contains an account of some of the actions and sayings of Jesus of Nazareth, but differs from them in ethos and theological emphases....
     1:1-13:5, 13:20-15:25, 16:23-end,
  • Gospel of Luke
    Gospel of Luke

    The Gospel of Luke is a Synoptic Gospels, and is the third and longest of the four Biblical canonical Gospels of the New Testament. The text narrates the life of Jesus of Nazareth....
     1:1-37, 2:19-3:38, 4:21-10:37, 11:1-18:43, 20:46-end,
  • Gospel of Mark
    Gospel of Mark

    The Gospel of Mark is the second of the four canonical gospels in the New Testament and was probably the first of the three synoptic gospels to be written....
     6:46-end. Mark 14-16 is illegible.


Description

The codex contains portions of the four Gospels on 160 parchment leaves (37.5 cm by 25.5 cm) in Western order: Matthew, John, Luke, and Mark. The codex survived is in a fragmentary condition. Written in two columns per page, 45 lines per page, in small uncial letters, by "very elegant" hand. The text of the Gospels is with a patristic commentary (except Mark), the commentary is written in minuscule letters.

There are no division like t?t???, the Ammonian sections and the Eusebian Canons absent. Texts Matthew 16:2b-3
Matthew 16:2b-3

Gospel of Matthew 16:2b?3 , the passage describes a confrontation between Jesus and the Pharisees and Sadducees over their demand for a sign from heaven....
 and John 7:53-8:11 are omitted..

History

The codex in 1757 was held in Innsbruck
Innsbruck

Innsbruck is the Capital of the federal state of Tyrol in western Austria. It is located in the Inn River Valley at the junction with the Wipptal , which provides access to the Brenner Pass, some 30 km south of Innsbruck....
. It was in Ingolstadt
Ingolstadt

Ingolstadt is a city in the Free State of Bavaria, Germany. It is located along the banks of the Danube River, in the center of Bavaria. As of December 31, 2005, Ingolstadt had 121,801 residents, making it the second-largest city in Upper Bavaria, after Munich....
, in 1827 arrived to Munich, now is located in the Munich University Library (fol. 30) in Munich.

The Greek text of this codex
Codex

A codex is a book in the format used for modern books, with separate pages normally bound together and given a cover. It was a Roman invention that replaced the scroll, which was the first form of book in all Eurasian cultures....
 is a representative of the Byzantine text-type
Byzantine text-type

The Byzantine text-type is one of several text-types used in textual criticism to describe the textual character of Koine Greek New Testament biblical manuscript....
, with an occasional readings seemed to be the Alexandrian
Alexandrian text-type

The Alexandrian text-type is one of several text-types used in New Testament textual criticism to describe and group the textual character of biblical manuscripts....
. Aland
Kurt Aland

Kurt Aland was a Germany Theologian and Professor of New Testament Research and Church History. For many years he was head of the Institute for New Testament Textual Research and the principal editor of the Nestle-Aland edition of Novum Testamentum Graece ....
 placed it in Category V
Categories of New Testament manuscripts

Biblical manuscript in Greek are categorized into five groups. This categorization scheme was introduced in 1981 by Kurt Aland and Barbara Aland in Der Text des Neuen Testaments....
.

See also

  • List of New Testament uncials
    List of New Testament uncials

    A New Testament uncial is a copy of a portion of the New Testament in Greek language or Latin language capital letters, written on parchment or vellum....
  • Textual criticism
    Textual criticism

    Textual criticism is a branch of literary criticism that is concerned with the identification and removal of transcription errors in the Writing of manuscripts....


Further readings


  • Bruce M. Metzger, The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption and Restoration, Oxford University Press, 1968.


External links

  • : at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism.