Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 1879.11
Diktyon no.: Diktyon 77961
Contents
Language(s): Greek
Gregory-Aland 674; Von Soden ε 271; Scrivener Evan. 620
The fragment begins during Mt 10:42 and ends during Mt 12:43)
TLG 0031.001
Physical Description
Collation
The fragment consists of 2 bifolia, probably the inner half of a quaternion.
- Quire 18-4 ff. 1-4 The first, second, seventh and eighth folios have probably been lost, with loss of text.
Condition
Layout
A single column of 26 lines. 153 × 110 mm. Pricking survives in all three margins, but some has been lost to cropping. Ruled in hardpoint, system Leroy 1, type Leroy 32C1.
Hand(s)
The text was copied in an upright low epsilon style mixed minuscule script in black ink. There is moderate variation in letter size, and slight flourishing of tails into the margin. There are deletions by expunctuation, but these may be by a later hand.
Syllabic abbreviations and superscript word endings appear only at the end of lines. Breathings are round, and mute iota is absent. There is decorative use of the double dot. There is accentuation of all lengths of nomina sacra . The double grave accent is in use.
The flat-bottomed omega and small x-shaped kappa are present. Distinctive letter-forms include minuscule kappa with very short acenders. There are frequent low epsilon ligatures.
Punctuation used includes the middle and upper points, lower and middle commas and question mark. The end of sections is sometimes marked by an additional point in red ink.
Headings are written in the same style, with greater use of majuscule forms, in red ink.
Decoration
Sections of text begin with minor initials in red ink, at the beginning of the following line where the section begins in mid-line.
Additions
As part of the original process of production, the scribe has marked the numbers of κεφάλαια (chapters) and Ammonian sections in the margins, and the numbers and headings (τίτλοι) of κεφάλαια in the upper margin, in dark red ink.
A later hand has added marginal lection notes, ἀρχή and τέλος marks indicating the beginning and end of lections in the margins or inserted into the text, and marginal numbers giving a sequential count of lections (ἀναγνώσεις), in bright red ink. There are occasional corrections and notes in Greek by another later hand.
The fragment is marked with the present classmark and the previous classmark T.5, and a modern chapter and verse reference for the beginning of the surviving text, on f. 1r.
Binding
The fragment has a modern card binding reinforced with cloth inside the spine.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Owned by the Biblical scholar Constantin von Tischendorf (1815-1874) .
Bought by the University Library from Tischendorf's executors in 1876.
Additional Information
Availability
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Bibliography
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Novum Testamentum Graece: ad antiquissimos
testes denuo recensuit apparatum criticum apposuit
Constantinus Tischendorf, Gregory, Caspar René (Leipzig, 3: Prolegomena, J.C. Hinrichs, 1894)
Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes, Gregory, Caspar René (Leipzig, J. C. Hinrichs, 1900)
Hand-list of the additional Greek manuscripts
in the University Library, Cambridge Scriptorium, Easterling, Patricia E. (16, 2, 302-323, 1962)
Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New
Testament, Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose (1, Project Gutenberg, 2011)
Funding of Cataloguing
The Polonsky Foundation
Digital Images
Key to Abbreviations
- αιτουντ:
- αναπαυσ:
- αποσταληντ:
- αρχ:
- αυ:
- αυτ:
- γ:
- γεννησ:
- γραμματ:
- δ:
- δε:
- εαυτου:
- εβδ:
- ειπ:
- ειπε:
- εκειν:
- εμ:
- εποιησ:
- ετερ:
- εχων:
- ηκολουθησ:
- ηλθ:
- ημφιεσμ:
- θλω:
- κ:
- και:
- καιρω:
- κατ:
- κοπιωντ:
- κτ:
- κω:
- μαθητ:
- μαρτωλ:
- με:
- μεε:
- μεεβη:
- μισθ:
- οικι:
- ονειδιζ:
- ορχηα:
- οτ:
- παντ:
- παρε:
- πε:
- περατ:
- πο:
- πονηρ:
- πρ:
- προ:
- προβα:
- προσηλ:
- σα:
- σαταν:
- ση:
- σουμβ:
- συμβου:
- τ:
- τ̣ε:
- τε:
- τλ:
- τρ:
- υμ:
- υμι:
- υμω:
- φαρι:
- φαρισαι:
Abbreviations
View list of abbreviations and editorial conventions.
