Codex Marchalianus ( Sigla Q , inventory designation Cod. Vat. Gr. 2125 ) - Uncial manuscript of the 6th century Septuagint . Named for one of the previous owners - Rene Marshall.
Features and content
The code includes 416 parchment sheets of 29 × 18 cm format, written in one column. On page 29 lines, each of which from 24 to 30 letters. Handwriting is an ascetic uncial of the so-called Coptic type; as was customary in Egypt, the manuscript is not decorated with anything. The first 12 sheets are woven from another manuscript, and contain patristic texts. Parchment sheets are collected in quinion - notebooks of 5 sheets, as in the Rossansky and Vatican codes .
The codex contains the prophetic texts of the Septuagint: the 12 prophets, Isaiah, Jeremiah (with Baruch), the Lament of Jeremiah, the Epistles, Ezekiel, Daniel. The order of the 12 minor prophets is as follows: Hosea, Amos, Micah, Joel, Obadiah, Jonah, Naum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi; it is identical to the order of the minor prophets in the Vatican Codex. Daniel is represented in the translation of Theodothiah .
When reconciling manuscripts to unknown fields by unknown scribes, the readings from Geksaply were added with the transfer of the corresponding onomastics , of which there are more than 70. It was about the book of Jeremiah (her Jewish version is shorter than the Greek) and the book of Ezekiel [1] .
The Tetragrammaton form used in the codex is quite remarkable. In the uncial text used three-letter old-Greek. ΙΑΩ , apparently, correlated with those presented in the magical papyrus of the beginning of our era [2] . In some places this form duplicates the name “Lord” and is given in the form of internal marginals [3] .
History
Paleographically , the manuscript was created in Egypt approximately in the 6th century, where it was located for several centuries, since all amendments and marginals were applied exclusively by the Egyptian type of Greek letters. Around the XII century, the code was in southern Italy, and then was transported to France, where he ended up in the library of the abbey of Saint-Denis. Rene Marshall bought the manuscript from the monastery library, it is called by his name to this day. The next owner was Cardinal Rochefuca, who transferred the code to the Jesuit College de Clermont. In 1785, the manuscript was purchased for the Vatican Library , where it remains to this day.
Textual Studies and Publications
Bernard de Montfaucon and Giuseppe Bianchini were engaged in code research. His text was used by James Parsons for the critical edition of the 1827 Septuagint. The facsimile composing edition was undertaken in 1869-1870 by Konstantin von Tischendorf . A critical edition of the text was also undertaken in 1890 by Giuseppe Cozza-Luci. The hexaplars readings were used by Ziegler in his consolidated edition of 1957.
Notes
- ↑ Wurthwein, 1994 , p. 204.
- ↑ David Edward Aune . Apocalypticism, Prophecy and Magic in Early Christianity: Collected Essays . - Mohr Siebeck, 2006. - p. 363. - ISBN 3-16-149020-7 .
- ↑ Bruce M. Metzger . Manuscripts of the Greek Bible: An Introduction to Palaeography . - Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981. - P. 94.
Literature
- Wurthwein E. Hebraica / Tr. by Erroll F. Rhodes. - Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co, 1994. - 304 p. - ISBN 9780802807885 .
Links
- Tischendorf edition 1869
- Codex Marchalianus, Vat. Gr.2125 [1]