Chapter XII. Cursive Manuscripts Of The Apocalypse.
1. Mayhingen, Oettingen-Wallerstein [xii], 9-1/8 × 5-7/8, ff. 90 (15 last chart.), the only one used in 1516 by Erasmus (who calls it “exemplar vetustissimum”) and long lost, contains the commentary of Andreas of Caesarea, in which the text is so completely imbedded that great care is needed to separate the one from the other. Mut. ch. xxii. 16-21, ending with τοῦ δαδ. This manuscript was happily re-discovered in 1861 by Professor F. Delitzsch at Mayhingen in Bavaria in the library of the Prince of Oettingen-Wallerstein, and a critical account of it published by him (illustrated by a facsimile) in the first part of his “Handschriftliche Funde” (1861). Tregelles also, in the second part of the same work, published an independent collation of his own (with valuable 'Notes' prefixed), which he had made at Erlangen in 1862. The identity of Apoc. 1 with the recovered copy is manifest from such monstra as ἐβάπτισας ch. ii. 3, which is found in both; from the reading συνάγει ch. xiii. 10, and from the clauses put wrong by Erasmus, as being lost in the commentary, e.g. ch. ii. 17; iii. 5, 12, 15; vi. 11, 15. Of this copy Dr. Hort says (Introd. p. 263) that “it is by no means an average cursive of the common sort. On the one hand it has many individualisms and readings with small and evidently unimportant attestation: on the other it has a large and good ancient element,... and ought certainly (with the somewhat similar 38) to stand high among secondary documents.”
2. (Act. 10, Stephen's ιε᾽.)
3. Codex Stephani ιϛ᾽, unknown; cited only 77 times throughout the Apocalypse in Stephen's edition of 1550, and that very irregularly; only once (ch. xx. 3) after ch. xvii. 8. It was not one of the copies in the King's Library, and the four citations noticed by Mill (N. T., prol. § 1176) from Luke xxii. 30; 67; 2 Cor. xii. 11; 1 Tim. iii. 3, are probably mere errors of Stephen's press.
4. (Act. 12.)
5. Codices Laurentii Vallae (see Evan. 82); the readings of which Erasmus used.
Codd. 6, 26, 27, 28 were rather loosely collated for Wetstein by his kinsman Caspar Wetstein, chaplain to Frederick, Prince of Wales.
6. (Act. 23.)
*7. (Act. 25, lscr.)
*8. (Act. 28, dscr.)
9. (Act. 30.)
10. (Evan. 60.)
11. (Act. 39.)
12. (Act. 40.)
*13. (Act. 42.)
*14. (Evan. 69, fscr.)[278]
15. Fragments of ch. iii, iv, annexed to Cod. E Evan. in a later hand.
16. (Act. 45.)
17. (Evan. 35.)
18. (Act. 18.)
19. (Act. 17.)
20. (Evan. 175), a few extracts made by Bianchini: so Apoc. 24.
21, 22 of Wetstein were two unknown French codices, cited by Bentley in his specimen of Apoc. xxii, and made Wetstein's 23 (Act. 56). Scholz, discarding these three as doubtful, substitutes—
21. Rom. Vallicell. D. 20 [xiv, Greg. xv], 12-7/8 × 8-½, ff. 93 (28), chart.
22. (Act. 166.)
23. (Evan. 367.)[279]
24. (Act. 160.)
25. (Evan. 149.)
*26. (Evan. 492.)
27. (Evan. 503.)
*28. Oxf. Bodl. Bar. 48 [xv], 8 × 5-½, ff. 24 (22), chart., κεφ., τίτλ., contains mixed matter by several hands, and is nscr of the Apocalypse, mut. ch. xvii. 5-xxii. 21 (ch. v. 1-5 is repeated in the volume in a different hand). This is an important copy, akin to Apocc. 7 and 96. Bentley also named it κ in his collation extant in the margin of Trin. Coll. B. xvii. 5 (see Evan. 51).
*29. (Act. 60, escr.)
30. (Act. 69.)
*31. Lond. Brit. Mus. Harl. 5678 [xv], 11-¼ x 8-½, ff. 244 (24), chart., prol., is cscr, but ch. i-viii had been loosely collated for Griesbach by Paulus. Like Evan. 445 it once belonged to the Jesuits' College at Agen, and is important for its readings. Has much miscellaneous matter.
32. Dresdensis, Reg. A. 124 [xv, Griesb. x], 7-¾ × 4-¾, ff. 16, belonged to Loescher, then to Brühl, collated by Dassdorf and Matthaei (Mt. t). The close resemblance in the text of Apocc. 29-32 is somewhat overstated by Griesbach.
*33. (Evan. 218.)
34. (Act. 66.)
35. Vindob. Caes. Gr. Theol. 307 [xiv], 7-1/8 × 5-5/8, ff. 32 (20), with Andreas' commentary: brought from Constantinople by de Busbeck (Alter). Described by Delitzsch, Handschriftliche Funde (part ii), p. 41 (1862). In text it closely resembles Cod. 87.
36. Vindob. Caes. Suppl. Gr. 93 [xiv, Greg. xiii], 6-3/8 × 4-3/8, ff. 56 (36), prol., κεφ., τίτλ., ends ch. xix. 20, with Andreas' commentary: the text is in στίχοι (Alter), having much in common with Codd. א, 7.
37. (Act. 72.)
*38. Rom. Vat. Gr. 579 [xiii, Greg. xv], 8-3/8 × 5-¼, ff. 24 (30), on cotton paper, in the midst of foreign matter. The text (together with some marginal readings) (primâ manu) closely resembles that of Codd. AC, and was collated by Birch, inspected by Scholz and Tregelles, and subsequently recollated by B. H. Alford at the request of Tregelles (see Evan. T).
39. (Paul. 85.)
40. (Evan. 141.)
41. Rom. Vat. Reg. Gr. 68 [xiv, Greg. xv], 9-1/8 × 6, ff. 70 (14), chart., proll., κεφ. t., with extracts from Œcumenius and Andreas' commentary (Birch, Scholz: so Apoc. 43).
42. (Act. 80.)
43. Rom. Barberini iv. 56 [xiv], 9-¾ × 7, ff. 5 (58) at end, 2 cols., contains ch. xiv. 17-xviii. 20, with a commentary, together with portions of the Septuagint.
44. (Evan. 180.)
45. (Act. 89.)
46. (Evan. 209.)
*47. (Evan. 241.)
*48. (Evan. 242.)
*49. Moscow, Synod. 67 (Mt. o) [xv], fol., ff. 58, chart., with Andreas' commentary, and Gregory Nazianzen's Homilies.
*50. Mosc. Synod. 206 (Mt. p) [xv], fol. chart., ff. 35, like Evann. 69, 206, 233, is partly of parchment, partly paper, from the Iberian monastery on Athos; it also contains lives of the Saints.
*502. Also from the Iberian monastery [x], is Matthaei's r, Tischendorf's 90.
Apocc. 51-84 were added to the list by Scholz, of which he professes to have collated Cod. 51 entirely, as Reiche has done after him; 68, 69, 82 nearly entire; twenty-one others cursorily, the rest (apparently) not at all. Our 87 is Scrivener's m, collated in the Apocalypse only.
*51. (Evan. 18.)
52. (Act. 51.)
53. (Act. 116.)
54. (Evan. 263.)
55. (Act. 118.)
56. (Act. 119.)
57. (Act. 124.)
58. Par. Nat. Gr. 19, once Colbert's [xvi], 7-7/8 × 5-¾, ff. 36 (22), chart., with “Hiob et Justini cohort. ad Graec.” Scholz.
59. Par. Nat. Suppl. Gr. 99a [xvi], 8-1/8 × 5-5/8, ff. 83, chart., with a commentary. Once Giles de Noailles'.
60. Rom. Vat. Gr. 656 [xiii or xiv], 6-¾ × 4-5/8, ff. 207 (17), chart., with Andreas'. (See Gregory 79.)
61. Par. Nat. Gr. 491, once Colbert's [xiii], 9-½ × 6-1/8, ff. 13, on cotton paper, mut., with extracts from Basil, &c.
62. Par. Nat. Gr. 239 [a.d. 1422], 8-5/8 × 5-5/8, ff. 119 (26), chart., with Andreas' commentary.
63. Par. Nat. Gr. 241 [xvi], 8-1/8 × 5-7/8, ff. 294, chart., with Andreas' commentary. Once de Thou's, then Colbert's.
64. (Paul. 159.)
65. Moscow, Univ. Libr. 25 [xii], 4to, ff. 7 (once Coislin's 229), contains ch. xvi. 20-xxii. 21.
66. (Act. 419.)
67. Rom. Vat. Gr. 1743 [dated December 5, 1302], 8-7/8 × 6-½, ff. ?, κεφ., τίτλ., with Andreas' commentary.
68. Rom. Vat. Gr. 1904, vol. 2 [xi], 11-¼ × 8-1/8, ff. 19, contains ch. vii, 17-viii. 12; xx. 1-xxii. 21, with Arethas' commentary, and much foreign matter. This fragment (as also Apoc. 72 according to Scholz, who however never cites it) agrees much with Cod. A.
69. (Act. 161.)
70. (Evan. 386.)
71. Athens, Nat. Libr. 142 [xv], 5-7/8 × 4-3/8, ff. 233, with other matter.
*72. Rom. Ghigianus R. iv. 8 [xvi], 8-1/8 × 5-¼, ff. ?, chart., with Andreas' commentary. Collated hastily by the late W. H. Simcox.
73. Rom. Corsin. 41. E. 37 [xv or xvi], 7-5/8 × 4-7/8, ff. 97 (30), κεφ., τίτλ. (See Gregory.)
74. (Act. 140.)
75. (Act. 86.)
76. (Act. 421.)
77. Florence, Laur. vii. 9 [xv, Greg. xvi], 8-3/8 × 5-½, ff. 363 (25), chart., with Arethas' commentary.
78. (Paul. 197.)
*79. Munich, Reg. Gr. 248 [xvi], 9-1/8 × 6-¼, ff. 84 (28), chart., prol., κεφ., τίτλ.; once Sirlet's, the Apostolic chief notary (see Evan. 373 and Evst. 132), with Andreas' commentary, whose text it follows. That excellent and modest scholar Fred. Sylburg collated it for his edition of Andreas, 1596, one of the last labours of his diligent life. An excellent copy.
80. Monac. Reg. Gr. 544 (Bengel's Augustan. 7) [xii Sylburg, xiv Scholz, who adds that it once belonged to the Emperor Manuel Palaeologus, a.d. 1400], 8 × 5-¾, ff. 169 (20), prol., κεφ., τίτλ., on cotton paper, with Andreas' commentary.
81. Monac. Reg. Gr. 23 [xvi], 14 × 9-¼, ff. 83 (30), chart., κεφ., τίτλ., with works of Gregory Nyssen, and Andreas' commentary, used by Theod. Peltanus for his edition of Andreas, Ingoldstadt, 1547. Peltanus' marginal notes from this copy were seen by Scholz.
82. (Act. 179.)
83. (Evan. 339): much like Apoc. B.
84. (Evan. 368.)[280]
85. Escurial ψ. iii. 17 [xii], “con commentarios Cl. Pablo” (Haenel and Montana).
86. (Act. 251.) (Greg. 122.)
*87. (Act. 178), mscr. See Apoc. 35.
88. (Evan. 205.)
*89. (Paul. 266.) B.-C. II. 4. (Greg. 108.)
*90. Dresd. Reg. A. 95 [x Griesb., Scholz xv], 12-¼ × 9, ff. 16 (30), 2 cols. This is 502 Scholz (Mt. r).
*91. (Paul. 263.) Rom. Vat. Gr. 1209 [xv], 10-5/8 × 10-3/8, ff. ?. Mico's collation of the modern supplement to the great Cod. B, made for Bentley, and published in Ford's “Appendix” to the Codex Alexandrinus, 1799. The whole supplement from Heb. ix. 14 ριεῖ τὴν συνείδησιν including the Apocalypse (but not the Pastoral Epistles) is printed at full length in Vercellone and Cozza's edition of Cod. Vaticanus (1868).
92. (Evan. 61.) Published by Dr. Barrett, 1801, in his Appendix to Evan. Z, but suspected to be a later addition. See Apoc. 14, note.
Wm. Kelly, “The Revelation of John edited in Greek with a new English Version,” 1860, thus numbers Scrivener's collations of six copies not included in the foregoing catalogue—
*93. (Paul. 256 or escr), ascr.
*94. (Evan. 201), bscr.
*95. Parham 82. 17, gscr [xii], 10-¼ × 7-¾, brought by the late Lord de la Zouche in 1837 from Caracalla on Athos: it contains an epitome of the commentary of Arethas, in a cramped hand much less distinct than the text, which ends at ch. xx. 11. There are no divisions into chapters. This “special treasure,” as Tregelles calls it, was regarded by him and Alford as one of the best cursive manuscripts of the Apocalypse: Dr. Hort judges it inferior to none. It agrees with Cod. A alone or nearly so in ch. xviii. 8, 10, (19), 23; xix. 14: compare also its readings in ch. xix. 6 (bis), 12.
*96. Parham 67 (?). 2, hscr [xiv], 11-1/8 × 7-5/8, ff. 22 (28), κεφ., on glazed paper, very neat, also from Caracalla, complete and in excellent preservation, with very short scholia here and there. These two manuscripts were collated by Scrivener in 1855, under the hospitable roof of their owner.
*97. (Evan. 584.) Brit. Mus. Add. 17,469, jscr [xiv], collated only in Apoc.
*98. (Evan. 488.) Oxf. Bodl. Can. 34, kscr [dated in the Apocalypse July 18, 1516]. The Pauline Epistles [dated Oct. 11, 1515] precede the Acts. Collated only in Apoc.
99. (Act. 83 ?) (See Greg.) Cited, like the next, by Tischendorf.
100. Naples, Nat. II. Aa. 10 ? [xiv or xv], 10-¼ × 7-3/8. (See Greg.)
101. (Evan. 206.)
102. (Evan. 451.) (Greg. 103.)
103. Petersburg, Muralt. 129 [xv], 4to, ff. 25 (35), chart., prol.
104. (Evan. 531.) (Greg. 107.)
105. (Act. 301.) (Greg. 104.)
106. (Evan. 605.)
107. (Act. 232.) (Greg. 181.)
108. (Act. 236.)
109[281]. (Act. 240.) (Greg. 102.)
110. (Evan. 622.) (Greg. 113.)
111. (Act. 307.) (Greg. 105.)
112. Dresden, Reg. 187 [xvi], 8 × 6, ff. 21 (26). With Andreas. (See Greg. 182.)
113. Messina, Univ. 99 [xiii], 10-5/8 × 8-3/8, ff. 138 (24), 2 cols., with commentary. (See Greg. 146.)
114. Rom. Vat. Gr. 542 [a.d. 1331], 11 × 8-¼, ff. 105 (29). With Andreas and Homm. of Chrysostom. (See Greg. 153.)
115. (Evan. 866.) (Greg. 114.)
116. Rom. Vat. Gr. 1976 [xvii, Greg. xvi], 8-3/8 × 5-5/8, ff. 114 (20), chart., κεφ., τίτλ., with commentary of Andreas. (See Greg. 157.)
117. (Evan. 698, Paul. 324.) (Greg. 115.)
118. Rom. Vat. Ottob. Gr. 283 [a.d. 1574, a Jo. Euripioto], 8-3/8 × 5-7/8, ff. 123 (22), chart., κεφ., Andreas. (Greg. 160.)
119. Rom. Vat. Pal. Gr. 346 [xv], 14-3/8 × 10, ff. 86 (30), prol., κεφ. t., κεφ., τίτλ., Andreas, (See Greg. 161.)
120. Rom. Angelic. A. 4. 1 [a.d. 1447], 8-½ × 5-½, ff. 86 (29), chart., κεφ., τίτλ., Andreas. (See Greg. 149.)
121. Rom. Angelic. B: 5. 15 [xv], 8-1/8 × 5-¾, ff. ?, chart., much liturgical information. (See Greg. 150.)
122. Rom. Ghig. R. V. 33 [xiv], 10 × 7-¼, ff. 28 (32), much theological writing, collated by W. H. Simcox, ff. 347, chart. Andreas and Œcumenius. (See Greg. 151.)
123. (Evan. 738.)
124. (Act. 309.)
125. (Act. 207.)
126. (Act. 208.)
127. (Act. 323.)
128. (Act. 332.)
129. (Act. 238.)
130. (Act. 359.)
131. (Act. 362.)
132. (Act. 374.)
133. (Act. 384.)
134. (Act. 386.)
135. (Act. 399.)
136. Vindob. Caes. Gr. Theol. 69.
137. Vind. Caes. Theol. 163.
138. Vind. Caes. Gr. Theol. 220.
139. Par. Nat. Gr. 240.
140. Par. Nat. Coisl. Gr. 256.
141. Athens, bibl. τῆς Βουλῆς.
142. (Paul. 202.)
143. Escurial χ. iii. 6.
144. Madrid. o. 19 (7).
145. Florence, Laur. vii. 29.
146. (Evan. 757.) (Greg. 110.)
147. Modena, Este iii. E. 1.
148. Modena, Este iii. F. 12.
149. (Evan. 792.) (Greg. 111.)
150. (Evan. 808.) (Greg. 112.)
151. (Evan. 922.) (Greg. 116.)
152. Rom. Vat. Gr. 370.
153. (Evan. 1262.)
154. Rom. Vat. Gr. 1190.
155. Rom. Vat. Gr. 1426 (Act. 264.) (Greg. 121.)
156. (Act. 159.)
157. (Evan. 986.) (Greg. 117.)
158. Rom. Vat. Gr. 2129. (Cf. Evst. 389.)
159. Rom. Vat. Ottob Gr. 154.
160. (Evan. 1072.) (Greg. 118.)
161. (Evan. 1075.) (Greg. 119.)
162. Venice, Mark i. 40.
163. Ven. Mark ii. 54.
164. Athos, Anna 11.
165. Athos, Vatopedi 90.
166. Athos, Vatop. 90 (2).
167. Athos, Dionysius 163. (Cf. Evst. 642.)
168. Athos, Docheiariou 81.
169. Athos, Iveron 34.
170. Athos, Iveron 379.
171. Athos, Iveron 546.
172. Athos, Iveron 594.
173. Athos, Iveron 605.
174. Athos, Iveron 644.
175. Athos, Iveron 661.
176. Athos, Constamonitou 29.
177. Athos, Constam. 107.
178. Patmos, St. John 12.
179. Patmos, St. John 64.
180. (Act. 149.)
181. (Act. 417.)
182. (Evan. 1094.) (Greg. 120.)
183. Thessalonica, Ἑλληνικὸν Γυμνάσιον 10. (Cf. Apost. 163.)
184. (Act. 422.)