The Origin of the Leicester Codex of the New Testament (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

J. Rendel Harris

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 133187193X ISBN 13 : 9781331871934

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

The Leicester Codex and its clues to origin and transmission

This scholarly work investigates where the Leicester Codex may have originated and how handwriting, watermarks, and patristic passages illuminate its history. It also looks at how these clues help place the manuscript within a broader family of related texts.

Readers will gain a clear view of the methods used to trace a manuscript’s origin, including the role of watermarks, quires, and handwriting. The study also surveys the non-Biblical portions and how patristic tracts contribute to understanding genealogical relationships among groups of manuscripts. The author compares Leicester Codex readings with other manuscript evidence and discusses how this evidence shapes ideas about transmission and provenance.

• How handwriting and watermarks inform origin and production
• How patristic passages help map relationships among related manuscripts
• How the Leicester Codex fits into broader manuscript traditions and Provenance debates
• How scholarly methods combine manuscript evidence with bibliographic context

Ideal for readers of manuscript studies, textual history, and library science who seek a focused, evidence-based approach to provenance and transmission.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

It is at first sight not a little curious to the person who commences the critical study of the documents of the New Testament to find that he can discover no settled proportion between the age of a manuscript and the weight attached to it. It is true that the best editors seem to have agreed in arriving (often by different roads) at the conclusion that the earliest text is to be found in the main in the earliest codices, but they seldom seem to enunciate this as a fixed principle of criticism, and even when their results are such as would flow with comparative ease from such an assumption, we find that we are not permitted to infer that any such empirical method has been employed by them when their critical apparatus shews that they have given in many cases an almost equal weight to some of the youngest MSS. which exist. A little study, however, soon convinces the tyro of the impossibility of determining any law by which the value of a codex can be expressed in terms of its age only without reference to its history, and leads him to expect occasional eccentric distributions of authority which may make the first of two codices to be the last, and conversely. Perhaps no more striking instance of this can be found than in the pre-eminence given to the Leicester Codex of the New Testament over the vast number of MSS. written in the cursive hand and the greater part even of those written in the uncial character. A reference to the critical apparatus of Tregelles New Testament will shew that along with those uncial MSS. upon which he bases his text he makes use of readings from three MSS. denoted (after the usual custom for cursives) by the numbers i, 33, 69. L. c.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 133187193X
• ISBN 13: 9781331871934
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 81
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