Scribal habits in sixth-century greek purple codices / / Elijah Hixson.

• Superior document: New Testament Tools, Studies and Documents; volume61
• VerfasserIn: Hixson, Elijah,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden Boston : : BRILL,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: New Testament Tools, Studies and Documents; volume61.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (598 pages).

In Scribal Habits in Sixth-Century Greek Purple Codices, Elijah Hixson assesses the extent to which unique readings reveal the tendencies of the scribes who produced three luxury manuscripts of Matthew’s Gospel. The manuscripts, Codex Purpureus Petropolitanus (N 022), Codex Sinopensis (O 023) and Codex Rossanensis (Σ 042), were each copied in the sixth century from the same exemplar. Hixson compares the results of a modified singular readings method to the number of actual changes each scribe made. An edition of the lost exemplar and transcriptions of Matthew in each manuscript follow in the appendices. Of particular relevance to New Testament textual criticism is the observation that the singular readings method does not accurately reveal the habits of these three scribes.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Motto -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Plates -- Introduction to Purple Codices and the 022-023-042 Family -- Method and Methodology -- Comparing Scribes: Textual and Paratextual Features Where All Three Manuscripts Are Extant -- Codex Purpureus Petropolitanus (N 022) -- Codex Sinopensis (O 023) -- The Rossano Gospels (Σ 042) -- Conclusions -- The Text of the Exemplar of 022, 023 and 042 -- Transcription of Matthew in 022 -- Transcription of 023 -- Transcription of Matthew in 042 -- Data for 042, Where Neither 022 nor 023 is Extant -- Reconstructions of the Structures of 022, 023 and 042 -- Kephalaia and titloi for Matthew in 022, 023 and 042 -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Indexes.