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Codex Petropolitanus Purpureus
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For the similarly named manuscript, see Codex Petropolitanus (New Testament).
Uncial 022
New Testament manuscript
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Matthew 10:10-17
Matthew 10:10-17
Name Petropolitanus Purpureus
Sign N
Text Gospels
Date 6th century
Script Greek
Found Sarmisahly (or Sarumsahly)
Now at National Library of Russia
Size 32 cm x 27 cm
Type Byzantine
Category V
Note purple codex
Codex Petropolitanus Purpureus, designated by N or 022 (in the Gregory-Aland
numbering), ε 19 (Soden), is a 6th-century Greek New Testament codex gospel book.
Written in majuscules (capital letters), on 231 parchment leaves, measuring 32 x 27
cm. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 6th century.[1]
Codex Petropolitanus Purpureus, along with the manuscripts Φ, O, and Σ, belongs to

the group of the Purple Uncials. The manuscript is very lacunose.[1]
Contents
1 Description
2 Lacunae
3 Text
4 History
5 Present location
6 See also
7 References
8 Further reading
9 External links
Description
It contains text of the four Gospels with a large number of lacunae.[1] The
manuscript text is in two columns, 16 lines, 12 letters in line, in large uncial
letters. The lettering is in silver ink on vellum dyed purple, with gold ink for
nomina sacra (ΙΣ, ΘΣ, ΚΣ, ΥΣ, and ΣΩΤΗΡ). It has errors of iotacisms, as the change
of ι and ει, αι and ε.[2]
It can be calculated that the original codex contained 462 leaves.[3]
Before each Gospel, the tables of κεφάλαια (tables of contents) were placed. The
text is divided according to the κεφάλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at
the margin. At the top of the pages τίτλοι (titles of chapters) are preserved. The
Ammonian sections and the Eusebian Canons are presented in the margin.[2]
Lacunae
Gospel of Matthew 1:1-24, 2:7-20, 3:4-6:24, 7:15-8:1, 8:24-31, 10:28-11:3, 12:40-
13:4, 13:33-41, 14:6-22, 15:14-31, 16:7-18:5, 18:26-19:6, 19:13-20:6, 21:19-26:57,
26:65-27:26, 27:34-end;
Gospel of Mark 1:1-5:20. 7:4-20, 8:32-9:1, 10:43-11:7, 12:19-24:25, 15:23-33,

15:42-16:20;
Gospel of Luke 1:1-2:23, 4:3-19, 4:26-35, 4:42-5:12, 5:33-9:7, 9:21-28, 9:36-58,

10:4-12, 10:35-11:14, 11:23-12:12, 12:21-29, 18:32-19:17, 20:30-21:22, 22:49-57,
23:41-24:13, 24:21-39, 24:49-end;
Gospel of John 1:1-21, 1:39-2:6, 3:30-4:5, 5:3-10, 5:19-26, 6:49-57, 9:33-14:2,

14:11-15:14, 15:22-16:15, 20:23-25, 20:28-30, 21:20-end.[4]
Text
The text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type, with numerous
pre-Byzantine readings.[5] According to Scrivener "it exhibits strong Alexandrian
forms."[6] According to Streeter in some parts it has the Caesarean readings. Aland
placed it in Category V,[1] and it is certain that it is more Byzantine than
anything else.
The texts of Luke 22:43-44, and John 7:53–8:11 are omitted.
In John 1:27 it has the addition εκεινος υμας Βαπτιζει εν πνευματι αγιω και πυρι.
[7]
History
Text of John 14:6 in facsimile edition

It is understood that the manuscript originated in the imperial scriptorium of
Constantinople and was dismembered by crusaders in the 12th century. In 1896
Nicholas II of Russia commissioned Fyodor Uspensky's Russian Archaeological
Institute of Constantinople to buy the greater part of it for the Imperial Public
Library in St. Petersburg.[2]
The codex was examined by Lambeck, Montfaucon, Hermann Treschow, Alter, Hartel,
Wickholf, Bianchini, H.S. Cronin, and Duchesne.
Wettstein in 1715 examined 4 leaves housed at London (Cotton Titus C. XV) and
marked them by I.[8] Wettstein cited only 5 of its readings. According to Scrivener
it has 57 various readings.[9][10] Bianchini described portions housed at the
Vatican Library. The same portions examined and collated for Scholz Gaetano Luigi
Marini.
Vienna fragments, Codex Vindobonensis, were examined by Wettstein, who marked them
by siglum N.[11] Treschow in 1773 and Alter in 1787 had given imperfect collations
of Vienna fragments.[12] Peter Lambeck gave the wrong suggestion that Vienna
fragments and Vienna Genesis originally belonged to the same codex.[2][13]
Tischendorf published fragments of this manuscript in 1846 in his Monumenta sacra

et profana. Tischendorf considered it as a fragment of the same codex as 6 leaves
from Vatican, and 2 leaves from Vienna.[14]
Louis Duchesne described the Patmos portions (1876).[15] Athens and New York
portions were edited by Stanley Rypins in 1956.
A facsimile of all fragments was published 2002 in Athens.[16]
Present location
The 231 extant folios of the manuscript are kept in different libraries:[17]
182 leaves in the National Library of Russia in Saint Petersburg,

33 leaves in the Library of the Monastery of Saint John the Theologian on the
Island of Patmos, Greece, Mark 6:53-7:4; 7:20-8:32; 9:1-10:43; 11:7-12:19; 14:25-
15:23;
6 leaves in the Vatican Library in Vatican, Matthew 19:6-13; 20:6-22; 20:29-21:19
4 leaves in London, British Library, Cotton Titus C. XV; Matthew 26:57-65; 27:26-
34; John 14:2-10; 15:15-22; they were named the Codex Cottonianus;
2 leaves in the National Library of Austria in Vienna,
1 leaf in the Morgan Library in New York,
1 leaf in the Byzantine Museum in Athens,
1 leaf in the Museum of Byzantine Culture in Thessaloniki
1 leaf in the private collection of Marquis А. Spinola in Lerma (1), Italy.
See also
Bible portal
List of New Testament uncials
Textual criticism
Purple parchment
Uncial 087
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. 1. Leipzig: J.C.
Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung. pp. 56–58.
Frederic G. Kenyon, "Handbook to the Textual Criticism of the New Testament",
London2, 1912, pp. 110.
NA26, p. 691.
Metzger, Bruce M.; Ehrman, Bart D. (2005). The Text of the New Testament: Its
Transmission, Corruption and Restoration (4 ed.). New York – Oxford: Oxford
University Press. p. 79. ISBN 978-0-19-516122-9.
Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to
the Criticism of the New Testament. 1 (4th ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p.
141.
NA26, p. 249
Wettstein, Johann Jakob (1751). Novum Testamentum Graecum editionis receptae cum
lectionibus variantibus codicum manuscripts (in Latin). 1. Amsterdam: Ex Officina
Dommeriana. p. 40. Retrieved November 14, 2010.
Scrivener, F. H. A., A Full and Exact Collation of About 20 Greek Manuscripts of
the Holy Gospels (Cambridge and London, 1852), p. XL.
Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to
the Criticism of the New Testament. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. pp. 139–
140.
Wettstein, Johann Jakob (1751). Novum Testamentum Graecum editionis receptae cum
lectionibus variantibus codicum manuscripts (in Latin). 1. Amsterdam: Ex Officina
Dommeriana. p. 41. Retrieved November 14, 2010.
F. K. Alter, Novum Testamentum Graecum, ad Codicem Vindobonensem Graece expressum:
Varietam Lectionis addidit Franciscus Carolus Alter, 1 vol., Vienna, 999-1001.
P. Lambeck, Commentarii De Augustissima Bibliotheca Caesarea Vindobonensi ed. alt.
opera et studio Adami Franc. Kollarii, Wien, Bd. (Buch) 3 (1776), col. 30-32.
F. H. A. Scrivener, A Full and Exact Collation of About 20 Greek Manuscripts of
the Holy Gospels (Cambridge and London, 1852), p. XL.
L. Duchesne, Archives des missions scientifiques et littéraires (Paris, 1876),
vol. 3, pp. 386-419.
The purple codex of the Gospels of Patmos and Petroupolis, Athens 2002.
"Liste Handschriften". Münster: Institute for New Testament Textual Research.
Retrieved 16 March 2013.
Further reading
Constantin von Tischendorf, „Monumenta sacra inedita“, Leipzig, 1846, pp. 15–24.
S. P. Tregelles, "An Introduction to the Critical study and Knowledge of the Holy
Scriptures", London 1856, pp. 177–178.
F. H. A. Scrivener, A Full and Exact Collation of About 20 Greek Manuscripts of the
Holy Gospels, Cambridge and London, 1852, p. XL. (as j)
Louis Duchesne, Archives des missions scientifiques et littéraires, Paris, 1876,
vol. 3, pp. 386–419.
H. S. Cronin, "Codex Purpureus Petropolitanus. The text of Codex N of the gospels
edited with an introduction and an appendix", T & S, vol. 5, no. 4, Cambridge,
1899.
C. R. Gregory, "Textkritik des Neuen Testaments", Leipzig, 1900, vol. 1, pp. 56–59.
S. Rypins, Two Inedited Leaves of Codex N, JBL Vol. 75, No. 1 (Mar. 1956), pp. 27–
39.
Weitzmann, Kurt, ed., Age of spirituality : late antique and early Christian art,
third to seventh century, no. 444, 1979, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, ISBN
9780870991790; full text available online from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Codex Petropolitanus Purpureus

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Codex Petropolitanus Purpureus, along with the manuscripts Φ, O, and Σ, belongs to

It can be calculated that the original codex contained 462 leaves.[3]

Gospel of Mark 1:1-5:20. 7:4-20, 8:32-9:1, 10:43-11:7, 12:19-24:25, 15:23-33,

Gospel of Luke 1:1-2:23, 4:3-19, 4:26-35, 4:42-5:12, 5:33-9:7, 9:21-28, 9:36-58,

Gospel of John 1:1-21, 1:39-2:6, 3:30-4:5, 5:3-10, 5:19-26, 6:49-57, 9:33-14:2,

The texts of Luke 22:43-44, and John 7:53–8:11 are omitted.

Text of John 14:6 in facsimile edition

Tischendorf published fragments of this manuscript in 1846 in his Monumenta sacra

A facsimile of all fragments was published 2002 in Athens.[16]

182 leaves in the National Library of Russia in Saint Petersburg,

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