Codex Corbeiensis II

{{Short description|Old Latin manuscript of the four Gospels}} The '''Codex Corbeiensis II''', designated by '''ff<sup>2</sup>''' or '''8''' (in the Beuron system), is a 5th-century Latin Gospel Book. The text, written on vellum, is a version of the old Latin. The manuscript contains 190 parchment folio with the text of the four Gospels with lacunae (Matt 1:1-11:16; Luke 9:48; 10:20.21; 11:45-12:6.7; John 17:15-18:9; 20:22-21:8).<ref name = Metzger>Bruce M. Metzger, ''The Early Versions of the New Testament'', Oxford University Press, 1977, p. 296.</ref> Written in a beautiful round uncial hand.<ref name = Scrivener/>

Gospels follow in the sequence: Matthew, Luke, John, Mark.<ref name = Metzger/>

The Latin text of the codex is a representative Western text-type in ''itala'' recension.<ref name = Gregory/> The text is akin to preserved in Codex Vercellensis and Codex Veronensis.<ref>Bruce M. Metzger, ''The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration'', Oxford University Press 2005, p. 102.</ref>

The manuscript formerly belonged to the monastic Library of Corbie Abbey, on the Somme, near Amiens; and with the most important part of that Library was transferred to St. Germain des Prés at Paris, about the year 1638, and was there numbered 195.<ref name = Scrivener>{{cite book | last = Scrivener | first = Frederick Henry Ambrose | author-link = Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener |author2=Edward Miller | title = A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament | publisher = George Bell & Sons | year = 1894 | location = London | edition = 4 | volume = 2 | page = 46 }}</ref> It was quoted by Sabatier, Bianchini gave a collation in Mark, Luke, and John. Full text was published by Johannes Belsheim, Augustine Calmet,<ref name = Gregory>{{cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | year = 1902 | location = Leipzig | volume = 2 | page = 603 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne01greggoog#page/n135/mode/2up }}</ref> Migne, and Jülicher.<ref name = Metzger/>

Currently it is housed at the National Library of France (Lat. 17225) at Paris.<ref name = Metzger/>

== See also == {{Portal|Bible}}

* List of New Testament Latin manuscripts * Codex Corbeiensis I

== References ==

== Further reading ==

* Augustine Calmet, ''Commentarius literalis in omnes libros Novi Testamenti Latinis litteris traditus a Ioanne Dominico Mansi'', Würzburg, Vol. 2 (1787), p. 276-302. * {{Cite journal |last1= Buchanan |first1= E. S. |year= 1906 |title= The Codex Corbeiensis (''ff''. II |journal= Journal of Theological Studies |volume= VII |issue= 26 |pages= 236–267 |publisher= The Clarendon Press |doi= 10.1093/jts/os-VII.26.236 |url= https://archive.org/stream/journaltheologi00goog#page/n252/mode/2up |access-date= 2011-06-09 }} * E. S. Buchanan, ''The four Gospels from the Codex Corbeiensis ff<sup>2</sup>'' (Old Latin Biblical Texts, v; Oxford, 1907), pp. 1–96. * A. Jülicher, ''Itala. Das Neue Testament in Altlateinischer Überlieferung'', Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York, 1976. ([https://books.google.com/books?id=-8RbpOTo-NwC Marcus Evangelium])

{{DEFAULTSORT:Corbeiensis II}} Category:Vetus Latina New Testament manuscripts Category:5th-century biblical manuscripts

== External links == [https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9065916g/f1.item Manuscript images online at the] National Library of France.