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First our previous notes here:
The minuscule 579 is dated to the 13th century.
Yet the strange section in the beginning of Sinaiticus of Matthew, that includes accents and the OT prophecy book references, and really appears to be more 1800s than 300s, also was bringing in these sections, maybe from Vaticanus or 579?
The Background of the New Testament and Its Eschatology (1954)
edited by William David Davies and David Daube
Reflections on Archbishop Carringtons 'The Primitive Christian Character'
William David Davies
https://books.google.com/books?id=ie88AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA145
Christian Origins and Judaism p. 88
maybe different note numbers
https://www.christianjewishlibrary.org/PDF/LCJU_Binder_ChristianOriginsandJudaism.pdf
first seven pages of Matthew
But, secondly, even if it should be proved that the divisions of the Vaticanus were lectionary, this evidence refers merely to the fourth century. The divisions also occur in Codex Zacynthius, a palimpsest containing the greater part of Luke i. i-xi. 33 which is dated in the eighth century and in Cod. 579 from the thirteenth century.5 Carrington claims that they do not appear in the Sinaiticus (k), from the second half of the fourth century.4 Kirsopp Lake, however, found that at least in the first seven pages of Matthew in the Sinaiticus we are to find ‘either the same or nearly the same system of division’.5 A. Schmidtke, cited by Kenyon, found traces of the divisions in the Sinaiticus and 579 and argued that the divisions went back to the Gospel harmony of Ammonius, which is to be dated in the third century.6 It is specially noteworthy that the Chester-Beatty Papyri, which may go back even to the beginning of the second century, show no traces of the divisions.7
Kirsopp Lake (1911)
https://archive.org/details/codexsinaiticus_201907/page/n17/mode/2up
(4) Paragraph marks in the Gospels.
An attempt has been made in the first seven pages of Matthew to indicate the ends of paragraphs by inserting a short horizontal line, sometimes bifurcated, between the last line of one paragraph and the beginning of another. Either the same or nearly the same system is found in Codex Vaticanus, but with somewhat fewer paragraphs. In the absence of any other clue it is difficult to say whether these lines belong to one date rather than another. An interesting discussion of their possible meaning in the Codex Vaticanus will be found in Dr. Schmidtke's Die Evangelien einus alien Unzialcodex;1 and in the correspondence between him and Prof. Eb. Nestle in the Theologishes Literaturblatt in 1903.
p. xxi
1 - The Codex referred to is the archetype of MS. Paris. Nat. Gr. 97
(Cod Evang 579, or in Van Soden’s notation, e 376}.
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Are there Latin mss with these types of sections?
In Acts we know there are.
Bernard Janin Sage (P. C. Sense) questions great uncial dating edifice
https://www.purebibleforum.com/index.php/threads/a.190
The section of Tregelles, where he explains that it is only the catena that causes the later date of Zacynthius is here:
Journal of Sacred Literature (1859)
Description of the Codex Zacynthius
https://books.google.com/books?id=BWMoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA171
The text is in round full well-formed Uncial letters, such as I should have had no difficulty in ascribing to the sixth century, were it not that the catena of the same age has the round letters (Grk) so cramped as to make me believe that it belongs to the eighth century.
Would this similarity of feature between Vaticanus and Zacynthius support Vaticanus also being of the later date? The similar textual features are significant, and we know that the terminus post quem of Zacynthius is about 700 AD, it can not be any earlier. This similarity would be consistent with Vaticanus being produced around the same time.
The minuscule 579 is dated to the 13th century.
Yet the strange section in the beginning of Sinaiticus of Matthew, that includes accents and the OT prophecy book references, and really appears to be more 1800s than 300s, also was bringing in these sections, maybe from Vaticanus or 579?
The Background of the New Testament and Its Eschatology (1954)
edited by William David Davies and David Daube
Reflections on Archbishop Carringtons 'The Primitive Christian Character'
William David Davies
https://books.google.com/books?id=ie88AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA145
Christian Origins and Judaism p. 88
maybe different note numbers
https://www.christianjewishlibrary.org/PDF/LCJU_Binder_ChristianOriginsandJudaism.pdf
first seven pages of Matthew
But, secondly, even if it should be proved that the divisions of the Vaticanus were lectionary, this evidence refers merely to the fourth century. The divisions also occur in Codex Zacynthius, a palimpsest containing the greater part of Luke i. i-xi. 33 which is dated in the eighth century and in Cod. 579 from the thirteenth century.5 Carrington claims that they do not appear in the Sinaiticus (k), from the second half of the fourth century.4 Kirsopp Lake, however, found that at least in the first seven pages of Matthew in the Sinaiticus we are to find ‘either the same or nearly the same system of division’.5 A. Schmidtke, cited by Kenyon, found traces of the divisions in the Sinaiticus and 579 and argued that the divisions went back to the Gospel harmony of Ammonius, which is to be dated in the third century.6 It is specially noteworthy that the Chester-Beatty Papyri, which may go back even to the beginning of the second century, show no traces of the divisions.7
Kirsopp Lake (1911)
https://archive.org/details/codexsinaiticus_201907/page/n17/mode/2up
(4) Paragraph marks in the Gospels.
An attempt has been made in the first seven pages of Matthew to indicate the ends of paragraphs by inserting a short horizontal line, sometimes bifurcated, between the last line of one paragraph and the beginning of another. Either the same or nearly the same system is found in Codex Vaticanus, but with somewhat fewer paragraphs. In the absence of any other clue it is difficult to say whether these lines belong to one date rather than another. An interesting discussion of their possible meaning in the Codex Vaticanus will be found in Dr. Schmidtke's Die Evangelien einus alien Unzialcodex;1 and in the correspondence between him and Prof. Eb. Nestle in the Theologishes Literaturblatt in 1903.
p. xxi
1 - The Codex referred to is the archetype of MS. Paris. Nat. Gr. 97
(Cod Evang 579, or in Van Soden’s notation, e 376}.
Minuscule 579 a Greek Manuscript of the New Testament - Christian Publishing House Blog
Minuscule 579 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 376 (von Soden),[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century A.D.
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Are there Latin mss with these types of sections?
In Acts we know there are.
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