Codex Macedoniensis or Macedonianus designated by Y or 034 (in the
Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 073 (
von Soden),
uncial
Uncial is a majuscule Glaister, Geoffrey Ashall. (1996) ''Encyclopedia of the Book''. 2nd edn. New Castle, DE, and London: Oak Knoll Press & The British Library, p. 494. script (written entirely in capital letters) commonly used from the 4th to ...
manuscript
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of the Gospel
Gospel originally meant the Christian message (" the gospel"), but in the 2nd century it came to be used also for the books in which the message was set out. In this sense a gospel can be defined as a loose-knit, episodic narrative of the words a ...
s, dated palaeographically to the 9th century. The manuscript is lacunose
A lacuna ( lacunae or lacunas) is a gap in a manuscript, inscription, text, painting, or musical work. A manuscript, text, or section suffering from gaps is said to be "lacunose" or "lacunulose".
Weathering, decay, and other damage to o ...
.
Description
The codex contains 309 parchment leaves (). The text is written in one column per page, and 16 lines per column.[
The codex contains almost complete text of the four Gospels with six lacunae ( Matthew 1:1-9:11; 10:35-11:4; Luke 1:26-36; 15:25-16:5; 23:22-34; John 20:27-21:17).][ Hermann von Soden, ''Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt / hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte'' (Berlin 1902), vol. 1, p. 132]
The texts of Matthew 16:2b–3 (''Signs of the Times'') and Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) are omitted.codex
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is a representative of the Byzantine text-type
In the textual criticism of the New Testament, the Byzantine text-type (also called Majority Text, Traditional Text, Ecclesiastical Text, Constantinopolitan Text, Antiocheian Text, or Syrian Text) is one of the main text types. It is the form f ...
. Aland placed it in Category V.[
]
History
The manuscript was inadequately cited by Constantin von Tischendorf
Lobegott Friedrich Constantin (von) Tischendorf (18 January 18157 December 1874) was a German biblical scholar. In 1844, he discovered the world's oldest and most complete Bible dated to around the mid-4th century and called Codex Sinaiticus ...
. The codex was acquired by Braithwaite
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, who described it in '' Expository Times'' in 1901. Gregory extracts from the collation of Braithwaite. According to von Soden, the manuscripts belongs to Ik-text. Kirsopp Lake found that this manuscript shares traits with Family Π.
According to Metzger this manuscript "deserves to be studied more thoroughly than has hithero been the case".[Bruce M. Metzger, ''Chapters in the History of New Testament Textual Criticism'', Wm. B. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids 1963, p. 38.]
The codex is located in the Cambridge University Library
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(additional manuscripts 6594).
See also
* List of New Testament uncials
A New Testament uncial is a section of the New Testament in Greek or Latin majuscule letters, written on parchment or vellum. This style of writing is called ''Biblical Uncial'' or ''Biblical Majuscule''.
New Testament uncials are distinct ...
* Textual criticism
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* Biblical manuscript
A biblical manuscript is any handwritten copy of a portion of the text of the Bible. Biblical manuscripts vary in size from tiny scrolls containing individual verses of the Jewish scriptures (see '' Tefillin'') to huge polyglot codices (multi-li ...
References
Further reading
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External links
* {{Cite web , url = http://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/en_GB/liste/?ObjID=20034 , title = Liste Handschriften , publisher = Institute for New Testament Textual Research , accessdate = 16 March 2013 , location=Münster
Whole manuscript online, from Cambridge Digital Library
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