Codex Seidelianus I, designated by
siglum
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G
e or 011 (in the
Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 87 (
von Soden), also known as Codex Wolfii A and
Codex Harleianus is a Greek
uncial
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manuscript
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of the
Gospels
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, dated
palaeographically to the 9th century (or 10th century). The codex contains 252 parchment leaves ().
The manuscript is lacunose.
Description
The codex contains the text of the four
Gospel
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s with some
lacunae (
Matthew
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1:1-6:6, 7:25-8:9, 8:23-9:2, 28:18-Mark 1:13, Mark 14:19-25, Luke 1:1-13, 5:4-7:3, 8:46-9:5, 12:27-41, 24:41-end, John 18:5-19, 19:4-27).
The text is written in 2 columns per page, 21 lines per page.
[ It was written in a coarse hand.
The text is divided according to the Ammonian Sections, whose numbers are given at the margin, with references to the ]Eusebian Canons
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. It contains the (''titles of chapters''). It has breathings and accents, but often irregularly.[ Each member of the genealogy in Luke 3 forms a separate line.]
Some portions of these lacunae are rectified by a later hand.
Text
The Greek text of this codex
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is a secondary representative of the Byzantine text-type
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with many of the non-Byzantine readings seeming to be the Caesarean
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. Aland gave to it textual profile 1761 871/2 42 21s and placed it in Category V.[ ]Hermann von Soden
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Life
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on August 16, 1852, Soden was educated at the University of Tübinge ...
classified it to the family Ki, but according to the Claremont Profile Method
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it belongs to the textual family Kx.
History
The codex was brought from the East to Germany by Seidel († 1718). After his death in 1718 Maturin Veyssière de La Croze, royal librarian from Berlin acquired it and presented to Wolf
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,[ who published extracts from its text in 1723. The codex was barbarously mutilated in 1721 in order to send pieces to Bentley. Most of them were purchased by Eduard Harley. Some of fragments were found by Tregelles in 1845. Tregelles collated its text in 1847.
The codex was known to ]Wettstein Wettstein is a Swiss surname. Bearers of the name include:
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, who gave siglum G for it. Griesbach designated it by the same siglum.[J. J. Griesbach]
''Novum Testamentum Graece''
Londini 1809, s. XCIX
Later it became part of the library of Edward Harley, and is now located in the British Library
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(Harley Harley may refer to:
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MS 5684), and one page, which Wolff gave to Richard Bentley
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, is in Cambridge
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B. XVII. 20).
See also
* List of New Testament uncials
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* Textual criticism
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References
Further reading
* J. C. Wolff
"Anecdota Graeca"
(Hamburg, 1723), III, pp. 48–92.
* S. P. Tregelles, ''Account of the Printed Text'', p. 160.
External links
* R. Waltz
Codex Seidelianus Ge (011)
at the ''Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism'' (2007)
Images
at the ''British Library''
Harley MS 5684
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Greek New Testament uncials
9th-century biblical manuscripts
Harleian Collection