Friday, June 11, 2010

Marginal Notes in Medieval manuscripts:

Miniscule (cursive) manuscript GA-1582 is actually a copy of the Family 1 text-type, but appears to some critics as an older or more primitive copy than manuscript GA-1 itself.

Additionally, 1582 has similar and unusual notes in the margins, of unknown origin, as follows:

The Ending of Mark:

At Mk 16:8 (σλγ) is a final decoration, and then (identical with Codex 1): [the following note:]

εν τισι μεν των αντιγραφων. εως
ωδε πληρουται ο ευαγγελιστης.
εως ου και ευσεβιος ο παμφιλου
εκανονισεν. εν πολλοις δε. και
ταυτα φερεται

Then follows 16:9-20. [24] In the margin at 16:19, the following is written in a tapering triangular shape:

ειρηναιος ο των
αποστολων πλη
σιον. εν τωι προς
τας αιρεσεις τρι
τωι λογωι. τουτο
ανηνεγκεν
το ρητον.
ως μαρκω
ειρημε
ν
ο
ν
This marginal note is not found in Codex GA-1.


- from The Textual Tradition of the Gospels: Family 1 in Matthew by Amy S. Anderson (Brill, 2004), p. 68-69

2 comments:

James Snapp Jr said...

The same reverse-triangular note that is here next to Mark 16:19 in 1582 is also at the same place in MS 72. That pretty much makes it a lock that the note has been copied from an earlier ancestor-copy of both MSS.

Yours in Christ,

James Snapp, Jr.

Nazaroo said...

Sorry James! I just got notice that you posted this in June! Fixed now anyway.

Thank you for this information.

Nazaroo