Vercellella Codex ( Latin Codex Vercellensis ) is a manuscript of the old Latin Four Gospels on purple parchment , performed, presumably, in the IV century . It is stored in the Vercelli Cathedral Library.
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Details
It is considered the earliest preserved manuscript of the Old Latin Gospel (catalog designation code a or 3 ). According to tradition, the manuscript was commissioned by Bishop Eusebius . Made in the technique of chrysography - silver ink on purple parchment. Sheets 321 (lost the last 12 verses of the Gospel of Mark), page format 6¼ × 10 inches (15.8 × 25.4 cm), the text is written in two columns with 24 lines in each. The Gospels are arranged in the so-called Western order (Matthew, John, Luke, Mark), as in the Code of Bez . The end of the Gospel of Mark (after Mark 15:15 ) - only 4 sheets - is written on newer material and displays the text of the Vulgate . The Euphalia apparatus contains ( other Greek: ἀνακεφαλαίωσις ) - tables of internal divisions indicating how many readings are contained in the book, how many chapters and verses in each reading.
The text of the Gospel of Matthew has some features: in chapter 3, the phrase “ Et cum baptizaretur, lumen ingens circumfulsit de aqua, ita ut timerent omnes qui advenerant ”, in the chapter Matt. 27: 9 in the phrase "spoken through the prophet Jeremiah came true," the name Jeremiah is omitted, as in similar manuscripts, for example, the Berat Codex . In the text of the Gospel of Luke ( Luke 23:34 ), the words "And Jesus said: Father, forgive them, do not know what they are doing," as in the Sinai Code and the Code of Beza.
Editions
- Giovanni Andrea Irico edition ( Sacrosanctus Evangeliorum Codex Sancti Eusebii Vercellensis , 2 volumes, Milan, 1748)
- G. Bianchini edition (Rome, 1749; reprinted in Migne , Patrologia Latina , xii, cols. 141–338)
- J. Belsheim edition (Codex Vercellensis, Christiania, 1897)
- A. Gasquet edition (Codex Vercellensis, Collectanea biblica Latina, iii; Roma, 1914)