Codex Guelferbytanus A designated by P^e or 024 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 33 ( von Soden), is a Greek

uncial Uncial is a majuscule Glaister, Geoffrey Ashall. (1996) ''Encyclopedia of the Book''. 2nd edn. New Castle, DE, and London: Oak Knoll Press & The British Library, p. 494. script (written entirely in capital letters) commonly used from the 4th to ...

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of the Gospels, dated palaeographically to the 6th century. The manuscript is very lacunose.

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The codex contains the text of the four Gospels in a very fragmentary condition on 44 leaves (). Written in two columns per page, 24 lines per column. It does not contain ''in genere'' breathings and accents. Sometimes it uses breathings, but often wrongly. It has errors of

iotacism Iotacism ( el, ιωτακισμός, ''iotakismos'') or itacism is the process of vowel shift by which a number of vowels and diphthongs converged towards the pronunciation in post-classical Greek and Modern Greek. The term "iotacism" refers t ...

in the Alexandrian way. ; Contents : Matthew 1:11-21; 3:13-4:19; 10:7-19; 10:42-11:11; 13:40-50; 14:15-15:3.29-39; : Mark 1:2-11; 3:5-17; 14:13-24.48-61; 15:12-37; : Luke 1:1-13; 2:9-20; 6:21-42; 7:32-8:2; 8:31-50; 9:26-36; 10:36-11:4; 12:34-45; 14:14-25; 15:13-16:22; 18:13-39; 20:21-21:3; 22:3-16; 23:20-33; 23:45-24:1; 24:14-37; : John 1:29-40; 2:13-25; 21:1-11. The notation of the Ammonian Sections is given in the margin of text, but without reference to the

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 ...

. The nomina sacra attested in this uncial fragment are ΙΣ (''Iesous'', Jesus) ΧΣ (''Christos'', Christ), ΚΣ (''Kurios'', Lord) ΘΣ, ΥΣ, ΠΗΡ, ΠΝΑ, ΙΛΗΜ, ΑΝΟΣ, and ΔΑΔ. The number "forty" is also written with an abbreviation — Μ. All the abbreviations are marked with the superscript bar. It is a

palimpsest In textual studies, a palimpsest () is a manuscript page, either from a scroll or a book, from which the text has been scraped or washed off so that the page can be reused for another document. Parchment was made of lamb, calf, or kid skin an ...

. The whole book is known as ''Codex Guelferbytanus 64 Weissenburgensis''. The upper text is in Latin and contains Isidore of Seville's ''

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''.

Text

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the

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. Aland placed it in Category V. According to the

Claremont Profile Method The Claremont Profile Method is a method for classifying ancient manuscripts of the Bible. It was elaborated by Ernest Cadman Colwell and his students. Professor Frederik Wisse attempted to establish an accurate and rapid procedure for the classi ...

in Luke 20 it has mixed text. According to Scrivener the codex agrees with A B united 50 times, sides with B against A 29 times, and accords with A against B in 102 places.

F. H. A. Scrivener Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener (September 29, 1813, Bermondsey, Surrey – October 30, 1891, Hendon, Middlesex) was a New Testament textual critic and a member of the English New Testament Revision Committee which produced the Revised Version ...

, "

A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament ''A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament: For the Use of Biblical Students'' is one of the books of Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener (1813–1891), biblical scholar and textual critic. In this book Scrivener listed over 3 ...

" (

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: London 1894), Vol. 1, p. 144.

History

Formerly the manuscript was held in

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, Weissenburg,

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, and

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. The Duke of Brunswick bought it in 1689. The manuscript became known to scholars in the latter half of the 18th century.

Franz Anton Knittel Franz Anton Knittel (April 3, 1721 – December 10, 1792) was a German, Lutheran orthodox theologian, priest, and palaeographer. He examined palimpsests' text of the ''Codex Guelferbytanus 64 Weissenburgensis'' and deciphered text of Codex Ca ...

(1721–1792) discovered it in the Ducal Library of Wolfenbüttel.

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" (

: London 1894), Vol. 1, pp. 143-144. Knittel recognized two palimpsest Greek texts of the New Testament in the codex and designated them by A and B. F. A. He published the Gothic text of the codex ('' Codex Carolinus'') at Brunswick in 1762.Knittel, ''Ulphilae versionem Gothicam nonnullorum capitum epistolae Pauli ad Romanos e litura MS. rescript Bibliothecae Guelferbytanae, cum variis monumentis ineditis eruit, commentatus est, detitque foras'', Brunovici 1762 The lower Greek text was collated and edited by Tischendorf in 1860. The codex is located at the

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(Weissenburg 64) in

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