Codex Laudianus, designed by Ea or 08 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 1001 (Soden), called Laudianus after the former owner, Archbishop William Laud. It is a diglot Latin — Greek uncial manuscript of New Testament, paleographically had been assigned to the 6th century. It contains the Acts of the Apostles.
Description
It is diglot manuscript with Greek and Latin in parallel columns on the same page, but Latin is in the left-hand column. The codex contains 227 parchment leaves (27 cm by 22 cm), with almost complete text of the Book of Acts (lacuna in 26:29-28:26). It is the earliest known manuscript which. Written in two columns per page, 24 and more lines per page.[1] It is arranged in very short lines of only one to three words each. The text is written colometrically.
History
Probably it was written in Sardinia, in time of Byzantine occupation, it means after 534 (terminus a quo). It should be written before 716 (terminus ad quem), because it was used by Beda Venerabilis in his Expositio Actuum Apostolorum Retractata. "It was brought to England probably either by Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, in 668, or by Ceolfrid, Abbot of Wearmouth and Jarrow, in the early part of the eighth century. It was probably deposited in one of the great monasteries in the north of England."[2] It was in the possession of William Laud, who donated to the Bodleian Library in Oxford by William Laud in 1636, where it is located now (Cat. number: Laud. Gr. 35 1397, I,8).[3]
The Greek text of this codex exhibits a mixture of text-types, usually the Byzantine, but there are many the Western and some Alexandrian readings. Aland placed it in Category II.[1]
See also
References
- ^ a b 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, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1995.
- ^ Frederic Kenyon, Our Bible and the ancient manuscripts (1939).
- ^ Bruce M. Metzger, The Text of ohe New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption and Restoration, 1968 etc, Oxford University Press, p. 52.
Further reading
- K. Tischendorf, Monumenta sacra IX, (Leipzig, 1870).
- J. H. Ropes, The Greek Text of Codex Laudianus, Harvard Theological Review XVI (Cambridge, Mass., 1923), pp. 175-186.
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