Codex Zacynthius - a help in dating Codex Vaticanus? - first seven pages of Matthew corrector Ba - Tischendorf argues Vaticanus later due

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First our previous notes here:

notes on the condition of ancient parchment mss
https://www.purebibleforum.com/index.php/threads/a.192/post-387


There have also been developments in the dating of certain manuscripts ....Parker and Birdsall's consideration of the palaeography and catena of Codex Zacynthius (040, E) prompt them to propose a date of around 700 for the majuscule underwriting, rather than Hatch's suggestion of the sixth century. 30 ... As more and more comparative material becomes available online, it will not be surprising if the dating of other manuscripts is reassessed.

H.A.G. Houghton, "Recent Developments in New Testament Textual Criticism"
Early Christianity 2.2 (2011) 245-68
http://eprints.bham.ac.uk/627/2/2011_EarlyChristianity-preprint.pdf
Zacynthius and Vaticanus in one such "comparative material". As for Sinaiticus, noting the "truly exceptional" nature of its condition is an example of a comparative distinction that should have been a major consideration.
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.
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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 Tregelles book is reviewed here:

Christian Remembrancer - (1862) p. 128-147
https://books.google.com/books?id=Z_QDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA128
And the book is here:

Codex Zacynthius: Greek Palimpsest Fragments of the Gospel of Saint Luke, Obtained in the Island of Zante (1861)
https://books.google.com/books?id=UYMxAQAAMAAJ

Wikipedia
The codex uses a peculiar system of chapter divisions, which it shares with
Codex Vaticanus and Minuscule 579. A more common system divides chapters according to their titles. The capital letters at the beginnings of sections stand out in the margin as in the Codices Alexandrinus and Ephraemi.

Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments,. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung. p. 91.

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

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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.

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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}.

Available to Tischendorf.
Are there Latin mss with these types of sections?

In Acts we know there are.
 
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Abbot and Burgon

Abbot and Burgon went around the horn on this, but they were hampered by not really understanding the Matthew chapters in Sinaiticus as the first hand, as explained later by Skeat.

The Authorship of the Fourth Gospel: And Other Critical Essays
The Sinaitic and Vatican Manuscripts
By Ezra Abbot
https://books.google.com/books?id=SpURAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA141


Mr. Burgon finds in its scheme of chapters “a striking note of primitiveness.’’ But the Sinaitic has no division into chapters at all, a prima manu. Is not that quite as primitive ? Further, Mr. Burgon’s argument appears to be of a circular character. The only proof of the high antiquity of the “scheme of chapters” referred to is its existence in the Vatican MS.

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Greg Goswell

EARLY READERS OF THE GOSPELS:
THE KEPHALAIA AND TITLOI OF CODEX ALEXANDRINUS (2009)
Greg Goswell
Presbyterian Theological College, Melbourne, Australia
http://jgrchj.net/volume6/JGRChJ6-7_Goswell.pdf

While he does some interesting work on Mark, including Sinaiticus paragraphs, he does not seem to have the Matthew sections that were part of that special added early work (that looks rather late.) With an 1840 production date, early and late are an artificial distinction, everything is late :) .

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Here he goes into Acts, on an issue that is in my discussion with James Snapp:


Ancient Patterns of Reading: The Subdivision of the
ACTS OF THE APOSTLES IN CODEX SlNAITICUS (2010)
Greg Goswell
Presbyterian Theological College, Melbourne, Australia
http://www.jgrchj.net/volume7/JGRChJ7-5_Goswell.pdf

As will be shown below, this system of capitulation has a marked correlation with the secondary numbered system of capitulation of Acts in Vaticanus (which, in the case of Vaticanus, covers the whole book).31 Table 2

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5. For a description of the methods of indicating paragraphs in Sinaiticus, see Dirk Jongkind, Scribal Habits of Codex Sinaiticus (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2007), pp. 95-97.

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The Numbered Chapters of Acts in Codex Sinaiticus
The first half of Acts in Sinaiticus is also subdivided into 42 numbered chapters, with the last chapter division (Aleph-42) placed at Acts 15.40. As will be shown below, this system of capitulation has a marked correlation with the secondary numbered system of capitulation of Acts in Vaticanus (which, in the case of Vaticanus, covers the whole book).31 Table 2 provides a listing of the numbered sections in Sinaiticus. Almost all of the sections coincide with paragraph divisions (as indicated by the standard markers). To assist in the evaluation of the hermeneutical implications of the kephalaia in Acts, comparison will made with these numbered chapters. In the first half of Acts, where both systems are present, seven out of ten kephalaia appear to coincide with the chapters in Sinaiticus. After that, only five out of the remaining seventeen kephalaia coincide with the late system of numbered chapters in Vaticanus (a system that closely approximates the chapters in Sinaiticus in the first half of Acts).32

30. For the types of titles used for ancient Greek works, see Johannes Munck, ‘Evangelium Veritatis and Greek Usage as to Book Titles’, Studia Theologica 17 (1963), pp. 133-38. On the general issue of literary titles, see Gerard Genette, ‘Structure and Functions of the Title in Literature’, Critical Inquiry 14 (1988), pp. 692-720; idem, Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation (trans. Jane E. Lewin; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), pp. 76-94.

31. As briefly noted by Casper Rene Gregory, Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes,
3 vols. (Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs, 1900-1909), I, p. 33.

32. The following chart is from the photographic reproduction provided in Helen
Lake and Kirsopp Lake (eds.), Codex Sinaiticus Petropolitanus: The New Testament,
the Epistle of Barnabas and the Shepherd ofHermas (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1911)
provided on microfilm from the British Library, now available at wwwcsntm.org'
Manuscripts GA%2001/, checked and corrected against the image and transcription
at http://www.codexsinaiticus.org'en/manuscript.aspx.
in VL). Due to this remarkable correlation (whatever its explanation), in
this study of the divisions in Sinaiticus I will make use of the numbered
chapters of Acts in Vaticanus as a ‘conversation partner’.

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43. Samuel Berger provides information about earlier Latin divisions in the Old
and New Testaments
(Histoire de la Vulgate: pendant les premiers siecles du moyen
age [Hildesheim/New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 1976], pp. 307-15).

Conclusion
What I have sought to show' in this study is that the physical segmentation
of a narrative text (with or without the assigning of titles to the divisions)
has a marked effect on a reader’s perception of what it is about: its key
persons, main themes and overall purpose. The divisions and running
titles of Sinaiticus give access to ancient patterns of reading the book
of Acts. Since they come from a different time,
the uncovered modes of
reading sometimes challenge contemporary notions about Acts and even
provide (what are to us) new' exegetical insights. At other times, they
may confirm our routine ways of looking at this biblical book.
The character of textual breaks indicated by the numbered chapters
(Aleph1-42) and kephalaia (Kl-27)
in separating or joining material (first
and second functions) has at times provided the reader with exegetical
insights. For example, the placement of Acts 2.42 with what follows
 
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Review of the first seven pages of Matthew

Dr. Schmidtke's Die Evangelien einus alien Unzialcodex;1
(1903) the correspondence between him and Prof. Eb. Nestle in the Theologishes Literaturblatt in 1903.
(1911) Kirsopp Lake
(1956) Davies
(2015) Alexander Schick

Jongkind p. 10
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"The corrections known as A oblique, B, and Ba, differ from the hands above in that they probably do not belong to the scriptorium but cannot be
later than the fifth century, which is earlier than the date assigned by Scrivener."

In reality, the Ba accents are the original hand, just by looking at them.

p. 12
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Milne and Skeat - Ba - "attributed to scribe A and D"


p. 16
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p. 18
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Did this have accents or errant prophecies in addition to section marks?

PBF - Xenforo - Sinaiticus - 649 - Matthew 2:6 - Sinaiticus scribe bungles Bible Prophecy 101 - BVDB found Snapp
https://www.purebibleforum.com/inde...iticus-scribe-bungles-bible-prophecy-101.649/

PBF - Xenforo - Sinaiticus - Matthew - accents and breathings, arrow-heads for OT quotations, paragraphi with Eusebian apparatus - #00 - canons
https://www.purebibleforum.com/inde...tions-paragraphi-with-eusebian-apparatus.643/

More PBF put in Sinaiticus accents

PBF
 
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Brent Nongbri
In a footnote, Milne and Skeat dispute Tischendorf’s identification of the writer of these ‘cursive’ words and offer their own attribution:
These are attributed by Tischendorf (Prolegomena, p. 9*) to the corrector Ba, but identity of ink and the fact that they accompany only corrections by D make it certain that they are from his hand. One isolated example of κατ(ω) by scribe A is on NT 40b.30


... size of these notes ... As Fig. 1 illustrates ... very small writing. ... 1 and 2 mm in height ... ink that is sometimes quite pale. We . Fig. 2 provides images of all the ‘cursive’ examples listed by Milne and Skeat.

Milne and Skeat were respected scholars, but I wonder at how they were able, using only these five letters, to say that the notes ‘certainly belong to the fourth century, and probably the first half of it’. The evidence presented below suggests that we should not share their confidence.
 

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The Schmidtke citation in Kenyon might have the page.

https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Schmidtke, Alfred

Vaticanus twice

p.28-29 yes
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.ah43vi
p. XXIV
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.ah43vi&view=1up&seq=28
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III. Der Archetyp.
1) Ungleich mehr als die Beurteilung der von keinem ändern Gruppengenossen vertretenen, ist die Wertung der innerhalb der Textklasse mehrfach bezeugten Lesarten von 01 durch die Begründung des Verwandtschaftsverhältnisses, durch die Bestimmung der gemeinsamen Stammform bedingt In dieser sehe ich zunächst nicht den ursprünglichen Wortlaut der evangelischen Schriften, sondern in Anlehnung an die bahnbrechende Arbeit von Bousset1 die gegen das Jahr 300 von dem ägyptischen Bischof und Märtyrer Hesychius unternommene, zur Vulgata der Kirchenprovinz Ägypten gewordene Textausgahe, welche sich am wenigsten getrübt im Codex Vaticanus erhalten hat. — An dem aus B und den anderen Familiengliedern rekonstruierten Arttyp gemessen, erweisen sich die meisten der im vorigen Abschnitt zusammengestellten Varianten gleichfalls als Ergebnisse des die Recension sofort wieder lockernden, unaufhaltsamen Konformierungsprozesses oder als Einwirkungen anderer Texttraditionen, unter welchen der ß-Text unbedingt vorherrscht. In die erste Gruppe gehören selbst so stark bezeugte Lesungen wie Mk 1472 sxXauoev (01 KC) für exXaiev, offenbar in Nachahmung von Mt 2675=Lk 2262. Andererseits hat 01 in Verbindung mit nur wenigen anderen nicht selten die Lesart der Recension im Gegensatz zu der Mehrzahl der übrigen, an den betreffenden Stellen harmonisierten Codices bewahrt; hierher scheint mir besonders die Majorität der nur von 01 BK vertretenen Varianten zu gehören.

1 Wilhelm Bousset, Textkritische Studien zum NT. U. XI, 4), S. 74—110: Die Recension des Hesychius. Leipzig 1894

III. The archetype.
1) The evaluation of the readings of 01, which are repeatedly attested within the text class, is much more dependent on the justification of the family relationship than the assessment of the readings of 01, which are not represented by any other group members, by the determination of the common root form. In this I do not see the original wording of the evangelical ones Scriptures, but based on the groundbreaking work of Bousset1 the text edition undertaken around the year 300 by the Egyptian bishop and martyr Hesychius, which has become the vulgate of the ecclesiastical province of Egypt and which has survived in the Codex Vaticanus in the least clouded form. — Measured against the type of species reconstructed from B and the other members of the family, most of the variants compiled in the previous section also prove to be the result of the unstoppable process of conformation that immediately loosened the review again, or as the influence of other text traditions, among which the ß text absolutely predominates. The first group includes even such strongly attested readings as Mk 1472 sxXauoev (01 KC) for exXaiev, apparently in imitation of Mt 2675=Lk 2262. On the other hand, 01, in connection with only a few others, often has the reading of the review in contrast to the Most of the other codices, harmonized in the relevant places, preserved; the majority of the variants represented only by 01 BK seem to me to belong here.

1 Wilhelm Bousset, Text-Critical Studies on the NT. U. XI, 4), pp. 74-110: The Review of Hesychius. Leipzig 1894


maybe p.33
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.ah43vi
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firnden haben. In der Tat gehen die Abschnitte mit 2 Ausnahmen (Mk 631 und 910) in die das Kapitel wieder in „Sinnzeilen“ zergliedernde Einteilung von B auf, welche durch einen kleinen leeren Raum im Text und einen zur Hälfte über den linken Rand der Columne hinausragenden Horizontalstrich unter der letzten Zeile einer Sektion bewirkt ist. Nicht selten ist das Strichlein vom Schreiber des Vaticanus oder dessen Vorlage übersehen oder eine Zeile tiefer gesetzt (so Mt 1726), manchmal wohl auch in der Handschrift verblasst oder in der Phototypie nicht erkennbar, wiederholt ist die Anbringung des trennenden Raumes vernachlässigt. Zuweilen werden beide Trennungszeichen versäumt sein, so eben zu Mk 631 und 910, wo die Pausen in 01 wie bei den übrigen übernommenen Kapitel- und Untereinschnitten durch weiteren Umfang die Aufmerksamkeit besonders auf sich lenken mochten. Diese Berührungen legen die Vor-

In fact, the sections with 2 exceptions (Mark 631 and 910) merge into the division of B, which divides the chapter back into "meaning lines", which are characterized by a small empty space in the text and a horizontal line that extends halfway beyond the left edge of the column under the last line of a section. It is not uncommon for the scribe of Vaticanus or his model to overlook the small line or set it a line lower (see Matthew 1726), sometimes faded in the handwriting or not recognizable in the phototype, and the application of the separating space is repeatedly neglected. Sometimes both dividing marks will be omitted, as in Mark 631 and 910, where the rests in 01, as in the other chapters and sub-cuts that have been taken over, might draw attention to themselves because of their greater extent.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100434398


n 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.

Die Evangelien einus alien Unzialcodex
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...p/1168453704&usg=AOvVaw0YL7frZrewg9iMukxvnlcG


Die Evangelien Eines Alten Unzialcodex: Nach Einer Abschrift Des Dreizehnten Jahrunderts (1903) [German]
by Henricus Nicolaus Clausen
 
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Imperial Edition of the Codex Sinaiticus (1863)
Christian Remembracer
https://books.google.com/books?id=rPQDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA386

p. 386-387

this; and we must remark that the presence of the sections is generally supposed to indicate not the earliest class of MSS. Thus the Vatican MS. has them not; but has, instead, sections peculiar to itself, with the exception of the Codex Zacynthius.

As this last-named MS. is of the eighth century, the Professor thinks that this fact rather takes off from the supposed antiquity of the Capitulatio Vaticana.

i. But the reply may be made, ancient MS. At all events, this must be allowed: if the presence of the sections is compatible with the fact that a MS. was written about a.d. 350, then, so far as this one argument is concerned, the Codex Alexandrinus might have been written about the same time. might have been copied from an

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