Codex Guelferbytanus A designated by P^e or 024 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 33 ( von Soden), is a Greek

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of the

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, dated palaeographically to the 6th century. The manuscript is very lacunose.

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The codex contains the text of the four Gospels in a very fragmentary condition on 44 leaves (). Written in two columns per page, 24 lines per column. It does not contain ''in genere'' breathings and accents. Sometimes it uses breathings, but often wrongly. It has errors of

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in the Alexandrian way. ; Contents : Matthew 1:11-21; 3:13-4:19; 10:7-19; 10:42-11:11; 13:40-50; 14:15-15:3.29-39; : Mark 1:2-11; 3:5-17; 14:13-24.48-61; 15:12-37; : Luke 1:1-13; 2:9-20; 6:21-42; 7:32-8:2; 8:31-50; 9:26-36; 10:36-11:4; 12:34-45; 14:14-25; 15:13-16:22; 18:13-39; 20:21-21:3; 22:3-16; 23:20-33; 23:45-24:1; 24:14-37; : John 1:29-40; 2:13-25; 21:1-11. The notation of the Ammonian Sections is given in the margin of text, but without reference to the

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. The nomina sacra attested in this uncial fragment are ΙΣ (''Iesous'', Jesus) ΧΣ (''Christos'', Christ), ΚΣ (''Kurios'', Lord) ΘΣ, ΥΣ, ΠΗΡ, ΠΝΑ, ΙΛΗΜ, ΑΝΟΣ, and ΔΑΔ. The number "forty" is also written with an abbreviation — Μ. All the abbreviations are marked with the superscript bar. It is a

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. The whole book is known as ''Codex Guelferbytanus 64 Weissenburgensis''. The upper text is in Latin and contains

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's ''

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''.

Text

The Greek text of this

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is a representative of the

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. Aland placed it in Category V. According to the

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in Luke 20 it has mixed text. According to Scrivener the codex agrees with A B united 50 times, sides with B against A 29 times, and accords with A against B in 102 places. F. H. A. Scrivener, "

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" (

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: London 1894), Vol. 1, p. 144.

History

Formerly the manuscript was held in

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, Weissenburg,

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, and

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. The Duke of Brunswick bought it in 1689. The manuscript became known to scholars in the latter half of the 18th century. Franz Anton Knittel (1721–1792) discovered it in the Ducal Library of Wolfenbüttel. F. H. A. Scrivener, "

" (

: London 1894), Vol. 1, pp. 143-144. Knittel recognized two palimpsest Greek texts of the New Testament in the codex and designated them by A and B. F. A. He published the Gothic text of the codex ('' Codex Carolinus'') at Brunswick in 1762.Knittel, ''Ulphilae versionem Gothicam nonnullorum capitum epistolae Pauli ad Romanos e litura MS. rescript Bibliothecae Guelferbytanae, cum variis monumentis ineditis eruit, commentatus est, detitque foras'', Brunovici 1762 The lower Greek text was collated and edited by Tischendorf in 1860. The codex is located at the Herzog August Bibliothek (Weissenburg 64) in

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