Medieval Manuscripts in Cambridge Libraries: Cambridge, University Library, MS Kk.6.4

Diktyon no.: Diktyon 12215

Introduction: This Acts and Epistles book was probably copied in the second half of the 10th century or first half of the 11th. The manuscript is a simple production with minimal ornament, and there was no supplementary textual content included apart from brief subscriptions at the end of most of the books, stating the context of the writing of each epistle and a conventional enumeration of the number of lines (stichoi). As was often the case with manuscripts not originally provided with such apparatus, later medieval users annotated it for liturgical use, marking out the lections to be read in the course of the liturgical calendar. In the first half of the 16th century the manuscript was owned by the French humanist François Vatable (Franciscus Vatablus) (d. 1547), a noted scholar of Hebrew as well as Greek, who was involved in efforts to produce an improved edition of the Bible. Dr Christopher Wright

Language(s): Greek

Act and Epistles book

Gregory-Aland 398; Von Soden α 189 (Kx); Scrivener Act 9

Filiation: The manuscript was assigned by Aland to his category C (c) E (ap), and has been used in the Nestle-Aland, UBS, Merk, Vogels, Souter and Scholz editions.

1.1. ff. 3r-82v

Acts of the Apostles

Incomplete, with a lacuna

Rubric: f. 3r ⟨Πράξεις⟩ τῶν ἁγίων ἀποστόλων

Incipit: f. 3r Τὸν μὲν πρῶτον λόγον ἐποιησάμην

Explicit: f. 82v καὶ διδάσκων τὰ περὶ τοῦ Κυρίου Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ. μετὰ πάσης παρρησίας ἀκωλύτως ἀμήν

Final rubric: f. 82v Πράξεις τῶν ἁγίων ἀποστόλων· εἰς τεθεῖσαι ὑπο[sic] Λουκᾶ τοῦ ἀποστόλου καὶ εὐαγγελιστοῦ

TLG 0031.005

1.2. ff. 83r-89v

Letter of James

Rubric: f. 83r Ἐπιστολὴ καθολικὴ Ἰακώβου

Incipit: f. 83r Ἰάκωβος Θεοῦ καὶ Κυρίου Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ δοῦλος ταῖς δώδεκα φυλαῖς

Explicit: f. 89v ἐκ θανάτου· καὶ καλύψει πλῆθος ἁμαρτιῶν

TLG 0031.020

1.3. ff. 90r-97r

First Letter of Peter

Rubric: f. 90r Τοῦ ἁγίου ἀποστόλου Πέτρου καθολικὴ ἐπιστολὴ αʹ

Incipit: f. 90r Πέτρος ἀπόστολος Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ. ἐκλεκτοῖς παρεπιδήμοις διασπορᾶς

Explicit: f. 97r ἐν φιλήματι ἀγάπης· εἰρήνη ὑμῖν πᾶσι τοῖς ἐν Χριστῶ· ἀμήν

Final rubric: f. 97r Ἐπιστολὴ Πέτρου αʹ

TLG 0031.021

1.4. ff. 97v-102r

Second Letter of Peter

Rubric: f. 97v Ἐπιστολὴ Πέτρου βʹ

Incipit: f. 97v Σίμων Πέτρος. δοῦλος καὶ ἀπόστολος Χριστοῦ

Explicit: f. 102r αὐτῶ ἡ δόξα καὶ νῦν καὶ εἰς ἡμέραν αἰῶνος ἀμήν

Final rubric: f. 102r Ἐπιστολὴ Πέτρου βʹ

TLG 0031.022

1.5. ff. 102v-110r

First Letter of John

Rubric: f. 102v Ἐπιστολὴ Ἰωάννου αʹ

Incipit: f. 102v Ὃ ἦν ἀπ'ἀρχῆς· ὃ ἀκηκόαμεν. ὃ ἑωράκαμεν τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς ἡμῶν

Explicit: f. 110r φυλάξατε ἑαυτοὺς ἀπὸ τῶν εἰδώλων ἀμήν

Final rubric: f. 110r Τοῦ ἁγίου ἀποστόλου Ἰωάννου ἐπιστολή αʹ

TLG 0031.023

1.6. ff. 110r-111r

Second Letter of John

Rubric: f. 110r Τοῦ ἁγίου ἀποστόλου Ἰωάννου ἐπιστολὴ βʹ

Incipit: f. 111r Ὁ πρεσβύτερος ἐκλεκτὴ κυρία καὶ τοῖς τέκνοις αὐτῆς

Explicit: f. 111r ἀσπάζεταί σε τὰ τέκνα τῆς ἀδελφῆς σου τῆς ἐκλεκτῆς· ἀμήν

Final rubric: f. 111r Τοῦ ἁγίου ἀποστόλου Ἰωάννου ἐπιστολὴ βʹ

TLG 0031.024

1.7. ff. 111v-112r

Third Letter of John

Rubric: f. 111v Τοῦ ἁγίου ἀποστόλου Ἰωάννου ἐπιστολὴ γʹ

Incipit: f. 111v Ὁ πρεσβύτερος Γαΐω τῶ ἀγαπητῶ· ὃν ἐγὼ ἀγαπῶ ἐν ἀληθεία

Explicit: f. 112r ἀσπάζονταί σε οἱ φίλοι· ἀσπάζου τοὺς φίλους κατ'ὄνομα

Final rubric: f. 112r Τοῦ ἁγίου ἀποστόλου Ἰωάννου ἐπιστολὴ γʹ

TLG 0031.025

1.8. ff. 112v-114v

Letter of Jude

Rubric: f. 112v Ἰούδα καθολικὴ ἐπιστολή

Incipit: f. 112v Ἰούδας Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ δοῦλος ἀδελφὸς δὲ Ἰακώβου

Explicit: f. 114v καὶ νῦν καὶ εἰς πάντας τοὺς αἴωνας ἀμήν

Final rubric: f. 114v Τοῦ ἁγίου ἀποστόλου Ἰουδα[sic] ἐπιστολή

TLG 0031.026

1.9. ff. 115r-142v

Letter to the Romans

Rubric: f. 115r Τοῦ Ἁγίου ἀποστόλου Παύλου ἐπιστολὴ πρὸς Ῥωμαίους

Incipit: f. 115r Παῦλος δοῦλος Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ. κλητὸς ἀπόστολος ἀφωρισμένος εἰς εὐαγγέλιον Θεοῦ

Explicit: f. 142v ἡ χάρις τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ· μετὰ πάντων ὑμῶν ἀμήν

Final rubric: f. 142v Πρὸς Ῥωμαίους ἐγράφη ἀπο[sic] Κορίνθου διὰ Φοίβης τῆς διακόνου στίχων Ϡκʹ

TLG 0031.006

1.10. ff. 143r-169r

First Letter to the Corinthians

Rubric: f. 143r Πρὸς Κορινθίους ἐπιστολὴ αʹ

Incipit: f. 143r Παῦλος κλητὸς ἀπόστολος Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ διὰ θελήματος Θεοῦ

Explicit: f. 169r ἡ ἀγάπη μοῦ μετὰ πάντων ὑμῶν ἐν Χριστῶ Ἰησοῦ ἀμήν

Final rubric: f. 169r Πρὸς Κορινθίους αʹ ἐγράφη ἀπο[sic] Φιλίππων διὰ Στεφανᾶ καὶ Φουρτουνάτου καὶ Ἀχαϊκοῦ καὶ Τιμοθέου στίχων ωθʹ

TLG 0031.007

1.11. ff. 169v-187r

Second Letter to the Corinthians

Rubric: f. 169v Πρὸς Κορινθίους βʹ

Incipit: f. 169v Παῦλος ἀπόστολος Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ διὰ θελήματος Θεοῦ

Explicit: f. 187r καὶ ἡ κοινωνία τοῦ Ἁγίου Πνεύματος μετὰ πάντων ὑμῶν ἀμήν

Final rubric: f. 187r Πρὸς Κορινθίους βʹ· ἐγράφη ἀπο[sic] Φιλίππων διὰ Τίτου καὶ Λουκᾶ, στίχων φϙʹ

TLG 0031.008

1.12. ff. 187v-196v

Letter to the Galatians

Rubric: f. 187v Πρὸς Γαλάτας

Incipit: f. 187v Παῦλος ἀπόστολος· οὐκ ἀπ'ἀνθρώπων οὐδὲ δι'ἀνθρώπου

Explicit: f. 196v ἡ χάρις τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ μετὰ τοῦ πνεύματος ὑμῶν ἀδελφοὶ· ἀμήν

Final rubric: f. 196v Πρὸς Γαλάτας· ἐγράφη ἀπὸ Ρώμης[sic] στίχων σϙγʹ

TLG 0031.009

1.13. ff. 196v-206v

Letter to the Ephesians

Rubric: f. 196v Πρὸς Ἐφεσίους

Incipit: f. 196v Παῦλος ἀπόστολος Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ. διὰ θελήματος Θεοῦ τοῖς ἅγιοις τοῖς οὖσι ἐν Ἐφέσω

Explicit: f. 206v ἡ χάρις μετὰ πάντων τῶν ἀγαπώντων τὸν Κύριον ἡμῶν Ἰησὸν Χριστὸν ἐν ἀφθαρσία ἀμήν

Final rubric: f. 206v Πρὸς Ἐφεσίους ἐγράφη ἀπο[sic] Ρώμης[sic] δια[sic] Τυχικοῦ στίχων τιβʹ

TLG 0031.010

1.14. ff. 207r-213v

Letter to the Philippians

Rubric: f. 207r Πρὸς Φιλιππησίους

Incipit: f. 207r Παῦλος καὶ Τιμόθεος δοῦλοι Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ· πᾶσι τοῖς ἅγιοις ἐν Χριστῶ Ἰησοῦ

Explicit: f. 213v μάλιστα δὲ οἱ ἐκ τῆς Καίσαρος οἰκίας· ἡ χάρις τοῦ Κυρίου Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ· μετὰ πάντων ὑμῶν ἀμήν

Final rubric: f. 213v Προς[sic] Φιλιππησίους ἐγράφη ἀπὸ Ῥώμης δι[sic] Ἐπαφροδίτου καὶ Τιμοθέου στίχων σηʹ

TLG 0031.011

1.15. ff. 214r-220v

Letter to the Colossians

Rubric: f. 214r Πρὸς Κολασσαεῖς

Incipit: f. 214r Παῦλος ἀπόστολος Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ. δια[sic] θελήματος Θεοῦ· καὶ Τιμόθεος ὁ ἀδελφὸς

Explicit: f. 220v μνημονεύετέ μου τῶν δεσμῶν· ἡ χάρις μεθ'ὑμῶν· ἀμήν

Final rubric: f. 220v Προς[sic] Κολοσσαεῖς· ἐγράφη ἀπὸ Ρώμης[sic] δια[sic] Τυχικοῦ καὶ Ὀνησίμου στίχων σηʹ

TLG 0031.012

1.16. ff. 221r-227r

First Letter to the Thessalonians

Rubric: f. 221r Πρὸς Θεσσαλονικῆς[sic] αʹ

Incipit: f. 221r Παῦλος καὶ Σιλουανὸς καὶ Τιμόθεος. τῆ ἐκκλησία Θεσσαλονικέων

Explicit: f. 227r ἀναγνωθῆναι τὴν ἐπιστολὴν πᾶσι τοῖς ἁγίοις ἀδελφοῖς· ἡ χάρις τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ μεθ'ὑμῶν ἀμήν

Final rubric: f. 227r Προς[sic] Θεσσαλονικεῖς αʹ ἐγράφη ἀπο[sic] Αθηνῶν στίχων ρησʹ

TLG 0031.013

1.17. ff. 227v-230v

Second Letter to the Thessalonians

Rubric: f. 227v Πρὸς Θεσσαλονικῆς[sic] βʹ

Incipit: f. 227v Παῦλος καὶ Σιλουανὸς καὶ Τιμόθεος τῆ ἐκκλησία Θεσσαλονικέων

Explicit: f. 230v οὕτως γράφω· ἡ χάρις τοῦ Κυρίου· ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ. μετὰ πάντων ὑμῶν· ἀμήν

Final rubric: f. 230v Προς[sic] Θεσσαλονικεῖς βʹ· ἐγράφη ἀπο[sic] Ἀθηνῶν στίχων ρϛʹ

TLG 0031.014

1.18. ff. 231r-234v

First Letter to Timothy

Defective at the end: ends at 1 Tim 4:12

Rubric: f. 231r Πρὸς Τιμόθεον αʹ

Incipit: f. 231r Παῦλος ἀπόστολος Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ. κατεπιταγὴν[sic] Θεοῦ Σωτῆρος ἡμῶν

Explicit: f. 234v ἀλλὰ τῦπος γίνου τῶν πιστῶν· ἐν λόγω||

TLG 0031.015

1.19. ff. 235r-236r

Second Letter to Timothy

Defective at the beginning: begins at 2 Tim 4:3

Incipit: || f. 235r ρεύσωσιν διδασκάλους. κνιθόμενος τὴν ἀκοήν

Explicit: f. 236r ὁ Κύριος Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς μετὰ τοῦ πνεύματός σου· ἡ χάρις μεθ'ὑμῶν ἀμήν

Final rubric: f. 236r Πρὸς Τιμόθεον βʹ τῆς Ἔφεσίων ἐκκλησίας ἐπίσκοπον χειροτονηθέντα· ἐγράφη ἀπὸ Ῥώμης· ὅτε ἐκ δευτέρου παρέστη Παῦλος τω Καίσαρι Νέρωνι: στίχων ροβʹ

TLG 0031.016

1.20. ff. 236v-239v

Letter to Titus

Rubric: f. 236v Πρὸς Τίτον

Incipit: f. 236v Παῦλος δοῦλος Θεοῦ. ἀπόστολος δὲ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ· κατα[sic] πίστιν ἐκλεκτων Θεοῦ

Explicit: f. 239v ἄσπασαι τοὺς φιλοῦντας ἡμᾶς ἐν πίστει· ἡ χάρις μετα[sic] πάντων ὑμῶν ἀμήν

Final rubric: f. 239v Πρὸς Τῖτον τῆς Κρητῶν ἐκκλησίας αʹ ἐπίσκοπον χειροτονηθέντα. ἐγράφη ἀπὸ Νικοπόλεως τῆς Μακεδονίας· στίχων ϙξʹ

TLG 0031.017

1.21. ff. 240r-241r

Letter to Philemon

Rubric: f. 240r Πρὸς Φιλήμονα

Incipit: f. 240r Παῦλος δέσμιος Χριστοῦ Ἰησοῦ· καὶ Τιμόθεος ὁ ἀδελφὸς. Φιλήμονι τῶ ἀγαπητῶ

Explicit: f. 241r ἡ χάρις τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ μετὰ τοῦ πνεύματος ὑμῶν ἀμήν

Final rubric: f. 241r Πρὸς Φιλήμονα ἐγράφη ἀπὸ Ρώμης[sic] διὰ Ὀνησίμου οἰκέτου· στίχων λζʹ

TLG 0031.018

1.35. ff. 241v-251v

Letter to the Hebrews

Defective at the end, with a lacuna: ends at Heb 11:23

Rubric: f. 241v Πρὸς Ἑβραίους

Incipit: f. 241v Πολυμερῶς καὶ πολυτρόπως πάλαι ὁ Θεὸς λαλήσας τοῖς πατρᾶσιν ἐν τοῖς προφήταις

Explicit: f. 251v ἐκρύβη τρίμηνον ὑπὸ τῶν||

TLG 0031.019

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Parchment (FHHF), of variable thickness and quality.

Extent: Codex: i + 1 + 251 + 1 leaves. 185 × 125 mm.

Foliation: The manuscript is foliated with the numbers 1 + 2 + 3-251 + 252 in pencil in Arabic numerals, recto, upper right.

Foliation: There is another, intermittent foliation sequence in Arabic numerals, in black ink, recto, lower right, which does not include the two left endleaves (ff. 1-2) or the largely lost f. 10 in its sequence. These numbers appear usually on every tenth folio (11 on f. 14r, 21 on f. 24r etc.), but occasionally elsewhere.

Collation

The manuscript consists of 32 quires, of which one is a single folio and the rest are quaternia. A quire has been lost between Quires 29 and 30, another between Quires 31 and 32, and an unknown number after Quire 32.

Quires 1-31⁸ ff. 3-250
Quire 32^8-7 f. 251

The second-eighth folios have been lost, with loss of text.

There are modern quire signatures in Arabic numerals, in pencil,on the first folio of each quire, recto, lower right.

Condition

f. 10 has been almost entirely lost, surviving only as a detached slip of parchment. There have been minor losses to the edges of some folios and there are small holes in f. 2. There is slight pest damage to the original left endleaf and first few written folios (ff. 2-8), which was evidently inflicted before the addition of the later endleaf f. 1. The ink has been abraded in places and there is some overwriting. There is some creasing and cockling, mild water staining and areas of dirt.

Layout

A single column of 22 lines. 114 × 80 mm. Pricking sometimes survives in the all three margins, but much has been lost to cropping. Ruled in hardpoint, system Leroy 1, type Leroy 02D1. Text sometimes hangs from the lines and is sometimes written along them.

Hand(s)

The manuscript was copied by Hand A in upright mixed minuscule script, in brown ink, with little variation in letter size and some flourishing of tails into the margins.

Syllabic abbreviations and superscript word endings appear only at the end of lines. Breathings are angular and mute iota is absent. There is occasional decorative use of the double dot, and breathings are absent when this appears on a letter which would normally bear a breathing. Nomina sacra are usually unaccentuated, but occasionally accentuated when more than three letters long, or with enclitics. Circumflexes sometimes appear above breathings, but are not expanded.

Majuscule letter-forms present include epsilon, zeta, eta, kappa, lambda, xi, sigma and psi.

Punctuation used includes the lower, middle and upper points, question mark and full stop.

Subscriptions were written by the same hand in Alexandrine majuscule script in brown ink, headings in the same style in red ink.

Decoration

The beginning of the text on f. 3r is preceded by a pyle in red ink.

The text of each book or hypothesis begins with a simple minor initial in red ink.

Additions

Marginal lection notes, including ἀρχή and τέλος marks inserted into the text, and other occasional annotations in Greek have been added by a number of different hands.

A later hand has added running headers in Greek indicating the current book in the upper margin of many folios.

Various different Greek hands have added brief prayers, notes of content, pen-trials and doodles and two plaited ornament designs on ff. 2v-3r.

The word or name ‘Despostis’ has been written in Latin script on f. 3r.

Ownership notes of François Vatable (‘Vatablus’) have been marked on the left pastedown and the right pastedown.

Notes in Latin have been added recording lacunae (e.g. f. 250v).

An ownership note of J.B. Hautin has been added on the left pastedown.

There are Latin notes of content on the left pastedown and f. 1r, and a note in Latin and French on the left pastedown regarding the manuscript's date: ‘Novum Testamentum grec, tres ancien’.

Binding

19th-century quarter leather binding, with marbled paper covering over couched-laminate boards and parchment pastedowns. Remnants of thread page markers survive at the edge of some folios (e.g. ff. 83, 90). There is decorative gold tooling on the spine, along with the classmark tooled in gold and the title ‘Novum Testamentum Graecum’ tooled in gold on a red label.

187 × 134 × 76 mm.

The text-block is broken into three parts, the first comprising the left board and endleaves and Quires 1-11, the second of Quire 12 and the third of Quires 13-32 and the right endleaves and board. The sewing attaching Quires 11 and 13 is largely broken, each being attached by a single surviving thread. The left outer joint is split and there have been losses to the covering material at the tail.

Accompanying Material

Seperarate sewn parchment endleaves; f. 1 consists of two folios pasted together. f. 2 is probably original, while ff. 1 and 252 are later.

History

Origin: The manuscript was probably copied between about 960 and 1050, as suggested by the style of script.

Provenance and Acquisition

Owned by the humanist scholar François Vatable (Franciscus Vatablus) (d. 1547) .

Owned by one J.-B. Hautin , probably the grandson of Jean-Baptiste Hautin (c. 1580-1640) (Easterling, 'Two Greek MSS.', p. 111, n. 1).

John Moore (1646-1714) , bishop of Ely: no. 1014 (f. 1r) in the handwritten supplementary list of Moore's manuscripts, now MS Oo.7.50(2), compiled by Thomas Tanner (1674-1735) after the publication of Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ (c. 1697).

Presented to the University Library in 1715 by George I (1660-1727) : donation bookplate engraved by John Pine (1690-1756) in 1736 on the left pastedown.

Additional Information

Availability

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Bibliography

Tracts and miscellaneous criticisms of the late Richard Porson, Esq. Regius Greek Professor in the University of Cambridge, Kidd, Thomas (London, Payne and Foss, 1815)

Novum Testamentum Graece : textum ad fidem testium criticorum recensuit, lectionum familias subiecit, e Graecis codicibus manuscriptis, qui in Europae et Asiae bibliothecis reperiuntur fere omnibus, e versionibus antiquis, conciliis, sanctis Patribus et scriptoribus ecclesiasticis quibuscunque vel primo vel iterum collatis copias criticas addidit, atque conditionem horum testium criticorum historiamque textus Novi Testamenti in prolegomenis fusius exposuit, praeterea Synaxaria codicum KM 262. 274 typis exscribenda curavit Dr. I. Mart. Augustinus Scholz., Scholz, J. Martin Augustin (Johann Martin Augustin) (Leipzig, Friedrich Fleischer, 1830)

Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes, Gregory, Caspar René (Leipzig, J. C. Hinrichs, 1900)

Novum Testamantum Graece, Souter, Alexander (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1947)

Novum Testamentum Graece et Latine: textum Graecum recensuit, apparatum criticum ex editionibus et codicibus manu scriptis collectum addidit, textum Latinum ex Vulgata versione Sixti V Pont. Max. iussu recognita et Clementis VIII auctoritate, Vogels, Heinrich Joseph (Freiburg; Barcelona, 1955)

Novum Testamentum Graece et Latine, Merk, August (Rome, Sumptibus Pontificii Instituti Biblici, 1964)

Before palaeography: notes on early descriptions and datings of Greek manuscripts Studia Codicologica, Easterling, P. E. (124, 179-88, 1977)

The Greek Manuscripts of John Moore and Etienne Baluze Codices Manuscripti, Jackson, Donald F. (56/57, 29-42, 2006)

Novum Testamentum Graece Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece, Nestle, EberhardNestle, ErwinAland, BarbaraAland, KurtStrutwolf, Holger, (Stuttgart, Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2012)

The Greek New Testament, Aland, BarbaraAland, KurtKaravidopoulos, JohannesMartini, Carlo MMetzger, Bruce M. (Stuttgart, Deutsche Bibel Gesellschaft, American Bible Society, United Bible Societies, 2014)

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