:''" Codex Monacensis" may refer to any manuscript held by the

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.'' Codex Monacensis designated by X or 033 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A³ ( von Soden), is a

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of the

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, dated palaeographically to the 9th or 10th century. The manuscript is lacunose.

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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, *

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1:1-3:8, 4:6-5:42, 7:1-13:5, 13:20-15:25, 16:23-end, *

Gospel of Luke The Gospel of Luke), or simply Luke (which is also its most common form of abbreviation). tells of the origins, birth, ministry, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ. Together with the Acts of the Apostles, it makes up a two-volu ...

1:1-37, 2:19-3:38, 4:21-10:37, 11:1-18:43, 20:46-end, *

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6:46-end. Mark 14-16 is illegible.

Description

The codex was written on 160 thick parchment leaves (), however has survived in a fragmentary condition. The text was written in two columns, 45 lines per page, in small, upright uncial letters, by a "very elegant" hand with breathing marks, accents and some compressed letters. The codex contains portions of the four Gospels in the order of: John, Luke, Mark and Matthew, though the original order was Matthew, John, Luke and Mark, named the " Western Order". According to Gregory, "The bookbinder messed everything up". The text of the Gospels contains a patristic commentary (except Mark) written in minuscule letters. There are no divisions such as τίτλοι (''titles''), and the Ammonian sections and

Eusebian Canons Eusebian canons, Eusebian sections or Eusebian apparatus, also known as Ammonian sections, are the system of dividing the four Gospels used between late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The divisions into chapters and verses used in modern texts d ...

are absent. The texts of Matthew 16:2b–3 and John 7:53-8:11 are omitted. Mark has the longer ending, but the word γάρ is missing at the end of Mk 16,8.

Text

The Greek text of this

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is a representative of the

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, with occasional readings deemed to be from the

Alexandrian text-type In textual criticism of the New Testament, the Alexandrian text-type is one of the main text types. It is the text type favored by the majority of modern textual critics and it is the basis for most modern (after 1900) Bible translations. Over 5,8 ...

. Aland gave it profile 105¹, 38^1/2, 1², 11^S and placed it in Category V. In Mark 9:49 it has the textual variant πας γαρ πυρι αλι αλισθησεται instead of πας γαρ πυρι αλισθησεται.NA26, p. 121.

History

The codex was held in

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in 1757. It has been in Rome,

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(as a present from Gerard Vossius (1577–1649)), and in 1827 arrived in Munich. Now the codex is located in the Munich University Library (fol. 30) in Munich. The codex was examined by Joseph Dobrovsky, who collated some of its readings for

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. Scholz collated it again, but wasn't a good collation.

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collated its text in 1844 and Tregelles in 1846. Burgon examined the manuscript in 1872.

References

External links

* R. Waltz
Codex Monacensis X (033)
at the ''Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism.''
Images of the manuscript online
at the

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.
Cim. 16 (= 2° Cod. ms. 30)
Full digital copy at Ludwig Maximillians Universitat Muchen Open Access University Library. {{DEFAULTSORT:Monacensis Greek New Testament uncials 9th-century biblical manuscripts

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