Codex Phillipps 1388,
Syriac manuscript of the
New Testament, on parchment. It contains the text of the four
Gospels.
Palaeographically it had been assigned to the 5th/6th centuries. It is one of the oldest manuscripts of
Peshitta with some
Old Syriac readings.
[ Bruce M. Metzger, ''The Early Versions of the New Testament: Their Origin, Transmission and Limitations'' (Oxford University Press 1977), p. 50.]
According to Gwilliam the Cureton’s Syriac is related to the Peshitto in the same way that the latter is to the Philoxeno-Heraclean revision. It means it represent a stage between that of the Old Syriac and the fully developed Peshitta text.
[ It has no fewer than seventy Old Syriac readings. It is one of very few early manuscripts with Old Syriac readings.]George Anton Kiraz
George Anton Kiraz ( syr, ܓܘܪܓܝ ܒܪ ܐܢܛܘܢ ܕܒܝܬ ܟܝܪܐܙ; born 1965) is a Syriac engineer and entrepreneur, best known for his contribution to modern Syriac studies.
Biography
George Kiraz was born in Bethlehem to a Syriac Ortho ...
, ''Comparative Edition of the Syriac Gospels: Aligning the Old Syriac'', Gorgias LLC 1996, p. XX.[
The text of the codex was published by G. H. Gwilliam in 1901. A. Allgeier re-examined the collection of the codex in 1932.
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See also
* List of the Syriac New Testament manuscripts
* Syriac versions of the Bible
* 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-ling ...
* British Library, Add MS 12140
* British Library, Add MS 14455
References
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Further reading
* A. Allgeier, ''Cod. syr. Phillipps 1388 und seine ältesten Perikopenvermerke'', Oriens Christianus 6, 1916, pp. 147–152.
External links
Andreas Juckel, ''A Re-examination of Codex Phillipps 1388''
at the HUGOYE: Journal of Syriac Studies
Peshitta manuscripts
5th-century biblical manuscripts