The Origin of the Leicester Codex of the New Testament (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Harris, J. Rendel

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ISBN 10: 133187193X ISBN 13: 9781331871934

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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It is true that M. Martin does not endorse altogether the arguments for the common origin of the four codices, but he does what amounts to much the same thing, by demonstrating that three out of the four have common internal and paleographic peculiarities which locate them all in Calabria or perhaps Sicily, so that they are either mss. Which have absorbed common local oddities of text, or are the common descendants of an eccentric Calabrian ancestor. These points M. Martin essays to establish from actual notes made by him on the copies in Paris, Vienna, and Milan. He does even more, he adds to the group a fifth and perhaps a sixth ms. Which has close textual relations with them, and points out directions in which the -important genealogical relations that subsist between what I suppose he would call the Calabrian family may be made a matter of more extended study by the search after fresh copies of a similar type.

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It is at first sight not a little curious to the person who commences the critical study of the documents of the New Testament to find that he can discover no settled proportion between the age of a manuscript and the weight attached to it. It is true that the best editors seem to have agreed in arriving (often by different roads) at the conclusion that the earliest text is to be found in the main in the earliest codices, but they seldom seem to enunciate this as a fixed principle of criticism, and even when their results are such as would flow with comparative ease from such an assumption, we find that we are not permitted to infer that any such empirical method has been employed by them when their critical apparatus shews that they have given in many cases an almost equal weight to some of the youngest MSS. which exist.

A little study, however, soon convinces the tyro of the impossibility of determining any law by which the value of a codex can be expressed in terms of its age only without reference to its history, and leads him to expect occasional eccentric distributions of authority which may make the first of two codices to be the last, and conversely. Perhaps no more striking instance of this can be found than in the pre-eminence given to the Leicester Codex of the New Testament over the vast number of MSS. written in the cursive hand and the greater part even of those written in the uncial character.

A reference to the critical apparatus of Tregelles' New Testament will shew that along with those uncial MSS. upon which he bases his text he makes use of readings from three MSS. denoted (after the usual custom for cursives) by the numbers 1, 33, 69.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 133187193X
• ISBN 13: 9781331871934
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 81