Codex Sangallensis 907

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Codex Sangallensis 907

The Codex Sangallensis 907, designated S, is an 8th-century Latin manuscript of the New Testament. The text, written on vellum, is a version of the Latin Vulgate Bible. It contains the text of the Catholic epistles, Book of Revelation, and non-biblical material (an Etymological dictionary, Four ages). The manuscript did not survived in a complete condition and some parts of it has been lost. The codex contains the Comma Johanneum.

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Description

Codex Sangallensis 907 contains the Catholic epistles on the pages 237–297, the Apocalypse 1:1-7:2 on the pages 303–318. [1] It contains also Old Testament books - Book of Numbers and Book of Deuteronomy. [2] on 160 parchment leaves (25 by 17.5 cm). [2] On folios 19-20, it has additional material: the Four Ages of the World . According to this material, the Longobards conquered Italy in the year 5772 (from the creation of the world). On folios 21-217 it has Etymological dictionary. [1] The text is written 24 lines in one column per page, in semi-uncial letters. The ink is black, with the initial letters being uncials and in colour. [1] The initial letters are written very carefully and decorated by zoomorphic motives like fish. [3] The nomina sacra are written in an abbreviated way and in Greek letters. The text of the codex is a mixture of the text-types. [4] It contains the spurious text of the Comma Johanneum after 1 John 5:8 (in the same location as in the Codex Cavensis). [5] It reads filio (for son) in 1 John 5:10, where the majority of manuscripts have Deo (for God). [6] In 5:17 it reads iniquitas (wrongdoing) for iniustitia (unrighteousness). [6]

History

The manuscript was written by the monk Winithar [2] and examined and described by Gustav Scherrer and Samuel Berger. [3] The manuscript was collated by Henry Julian White. John Wordsworth Wordsworth designated the manuscript by siglum S2. [4] It was digitised and it is available on the site of the Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland. [1] Currently it is housed at the Abbey library of Saint Gall (907) in St. Gallen. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Cod. Sang. 907 at the e-codices
  2. 1 2 3 Gregory, Caspar René (1902). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 2. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 708. ISBN   1-4021-6347-9.
  3. 1 2 Berger, Samuel (1893). Histoire de la Vulgate pendant les premiers siècles du Moyen Age (in French). Paris. p. 412.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. 1 2 Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament . Vol. 2 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 86.
  5. Nestle-Aland, Novum Testamentum Latine, Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart 2008, p. 623.
  6. 1 2 Nestle-Aland, Novum Testamentum Latine, Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart 2008, p. 624.

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