Codex Mosquensis II

Uncial **031**
	New Testament manuscript; papyri; uncials; minuscules; lectionaries;
	Matthew 1:1-18
Name	Mosquensis II
Sign	V
Text	Gospels †
Date	9th-century
Script	Greek
Found	Athos
Now at	State Historical Museum
Size	15.7 cm by 11.5 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V
Hand	diligent

Codex Mosquensis II designated by V or 031 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 75 (von Soden), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the Gospels, dated palaeographically to the 9th-century.[1] The manuscript is lacunose.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels, on 220 parchment leaves (15.7 cm by 11.5 cm), with some lacunae (Matthew 5:44-6:12, 9:18-10:1, 22:44-23:35, John 21:10-fin.). The leaves are arranged in octavo.[2]

The text of the manuscript is written in one column per page, 28 lines per page,[1] in small and fine uncial letters,[2] in a kind of stichometry. It contains accents, but punctuation is rare.

The codex is written in uncial letters to John 8:39, where it breaks off, and from that point the text is continued in a minuscule hand from the 13th century.[3]

It contains Epistula ad Carpianum, the Eusebian tables, the tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) are placed before Gospels, but there are no divisions according to the κεφαλαια (chapters). The text is divided only according to the Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons; it has lectionary markings.[2] According to Matthaei it is written in a kind of stichometry by a diligent scribe.[4]

The manuscript contains a portion from Chronology of Hippolitus from Theben.[2]

John 8:39-21:10

The text of the Gospel of John 8:39-21:10 is written in minuscule letters on 10 parchment leaves.[5]

The text is divided according to the Ammonian Sections, whose numbers are given at the margin with references to the Eusebian Canons. It contains Synaxarion.[2]

The minuscule text was designated by Griesbach as 87, by Scholz as 250.

Text

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.[1] It is a member of the textual family Family E.[6] It has some textual resemblance to Codex Campianus.[4]

It lacks the text of Matthew 16:2b–3 (the Signs of the Times).[7]

History and present Location

Formerly the manuscript was held at the monastery Vatopedi at Athos peninsula. It was brought to Moscow in 1655,[2] by the monk Arsenius, on the suggestion of the Patriarch Nikon, in the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov (1645–1676). The manuscript was collated by C.F. Matthaei.[8]

It was collated by Matthaei in 1779 and in 1783. In 1783 the manuscript lacked only the texts Matthew 22:44-23:35, John 21:10-fin.[2] It was one of the best manuscripts of Matthaei.[4] Constantin von Tischendorf used the work of Matthaei in his Novum Testamentum. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1868.[2] The manuscript was examined by Kurt Treu.[9]

In 1908 C. R. Gregory gave siglum 031 to it.

The codex is located now in the State Historical Museum (V. 9).[1][10]

References

Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 113. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments [Textual criticism of the New Testament] (in German). 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung. p. 76. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
Bruce M. Metzger, Bart D. Ehrman, The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption and Restoration, Oxford University Press (Oxford, 2005), p. 80.
Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 150.
Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. p. 172.
F. Wisse, Family E and the Profile Method, Biblica 51, (1970), pp. 67-75.
UBS3, p. 61.
Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 224.
Kurt Treu Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments in der UdSSR; eine systematische Auswertung des Texthandschriften in Leningrad, Moskau, Kiev, Odessa, Tbiblisi und Erevan, Texte und Untersuchungen 91 (Berlin, 1966), pp. 235-238
"Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research. Retrieved 16 March 2013.