Codex Colbertinus
Codex Colbertinus is a manuscript of the Latin New Testament. It contains the entirety of the New Testament and includes the Apocryphal Epistle to the Laodiceans. It is designated by 6 or c in the Beuron register of Latin New Testament manuscripts.[1] Using the study of comparative writing styles (palaeography), it has been assigned to the 11th or 12th century.[2] It was probably produced in southern France.[2][1]
Description
[edit | edit source]The manuscript is a codex (precursor to the modern book format), containing the text of the entire Latin New Testament including the Epistle to the Laodiceans[1] written on 146 folios (292 pages), sized 17.5 x 9.5 cm.[1] The text is written in two columns of 40 lines in black ink.[1] There are decorations in red, green and blue ink, along with illustrations before each of the four gospels.[1]
Prologues precede all of the books, with chapter lists preceding each gospel and Acts.[1] Following the book of Acts is a note regarding the apocryphal Passion of Peter and Paul, similar to that seen in Codex Complutensis I.[1]
Text
[edit | edit source]Its version of the four Gospels and Book of Acts follows the Old Latin, while the rest of the New Testament follows the Vulgate.[3] Thus the codex represents a mixed form of the Latin New Tesament text. It is generally a European Old Latin text, named Itala, strongly interpolated by Afra. Both text were contaminated by Jerome's Vulgate.[2][3]
In Matthew 27:38, the two robbers who were crucified on either side of Jesus are named as Zoatham (right-hand) and Camma (left-hand),[4] but in Mark 15:27 they are named Zoatham and Chammatha.[5][2]: 270
History
[edit | edit source]The earliest history of the manuscript is unknown. The text of the codex was edited by scholar Johannes Belsheim in 1888, scholar Heinreich Vogels in 1953, and by Jülicher.[3] The manuscript is currently housed at the National Library of France (shelf number Latin 254) in Paris.[2][3]
See also
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