Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 4490
Diktyon no.: Diktyon 12128
Contents
Language(s): Greek
Ed. G. Heinrici, Beiträge zur Geschichte und Erklärung des Neuen Testamentes, vol. 5 (Leipzig 1894)
Defective at the beginning and end, with a lacuna. Text on f. 1r-v begins during the commentary on Mt 27:3-10 and ends during that on Mt 27:11 (ed. Heinrici, pp. 321-322); text on f. 2r-v begins during the commentary on Mt 27:19-23 and ends during that on Mt 27:24-26 (ed. Heinrici, p. 324).
Physical Description
Condition
Layout
A single column of 29 lines. 212 × 135 mm. Pricking survives in the upper margin, but most has been lost to cropping. Ruled in hardpoint, type Leroy 12D1. Text hangs from the lines.
Hand(s)
The text was copied in an upright mixed minuscule Perlschrift, in brown ink, with modest variation in letter size and some flourishing of tails into the lower margin.
The only syllabic abbreviation present is the horizontal stroke for nu, appearing only at the end of lines. Superscript word endings are not in use. Breathings are both angular and round, and mute iota is adscript. Nomina sacra are unaccentuated. Circumflexes appear over breathings. Marginal quotation marks are in use.
Majuscule forms present include alpha, beta, epsilon, eta, kappa, lambda, pi.
Punctuation used includes the lower and upper points, lower comma and question mark.
Quotations from the Gospel are written in Alexandrine majuscule script, in brown ink.
Decoration
The beginnings of sections are marked by simple minor initials in red ink, with gilding.
The orginal annotations are gilded.
Additions
As part of the original production of the manuscript, marginal notes of the word ἀπολ⟨ογούμενος⟩ (?) have been added by the beginning of some sub-sections.
Notes in pencil on f. 1r record citations to Erwin Preuschen, Antilegomena: Die Reste der ausserkanonischen Evangelien und urchristlichen Ueberlieferungen (Berlin 1901) and Constantin von Tischendorf, Novum Testamentum Graece : ad antiquissimos testes denuo recensuit apparatum criticum apposuit, vol. 3: Prolegomena (Leipzig 1894).
The name Ιωασάφαι(?) has been written in pencil on f. 2r.
Binding
20th-century board pamphlet binding with paper covering and plain pastedowns. The classmark, the letter C and the name St Matthew are tooled in gold on the left board.
327 × 242 × 10 mm.
Accompanying Material
The binding incorporates three paper endleaves at the left-hand end and two at the right, while another blank leaf of the same kind appears between the two original folios, which are attached to paper stubs.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Probably owned by Baroness Angela Burdett-Coutts (1814-1906) .
Owned by Frederick H. A. Scrivener (1813-1891) . Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 4489 had also belonged to Burdett-Coutts and was sold to Scrivener by her probably before 1883.
By descent to Scrivener's daughter, Frances Emily Scrivener .
Purchased by the University Library from Frances Emily Scrivener on 6 August 1909, with money from the Rustat Fund (see also MS Add. 4489 and MS Add. 4491).
Additional Information
Availability
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Bibliography
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Hand-list of the additional Greek manuscripts in the University
Library, Cambridge Scriptorium, Easterling, Patricia E. (16, 2, 302-323, 1962)
Catena manuscripts of the Greek New Testament: a catalogue, Parpulov, Georgi (Piscataway, NJ, Gorgias Press, 2021)
Funding of Cataloguing
The Polonsky Foundation
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Abbreviations
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