11-03-2008, 05:56 PM
Shlama:
There are two complete extant manuscripts of the Aramaic Peshitta (that I know of) in the west. The Khabouris Codex is well documented and the transcribed source text is made available at <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.dukhrana.com">http://www.dukhrana.com</a><!-- m -->. The other extant manuscript is the Yonan Codex which was originally in the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. but is now in The Van Kampen Collection in Grand Haven, Michigan, USA. In 2002, the Collection relocated to Orlando, Florida.
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On page 2 "THE SAGA OF THE YONAN CODEX" by Bruce M. Metzger, Princeton Theological Seminary , the picture of the page containing Matthew 5 (The Beatitudes) is written in East Adiabene (Swadaya) text type. Interestingly pages 13, 14, 38, 39, 53 and 54 of the Khabouris Codex are also written in the Swadaya text type. The rest of the Khabouris Codex is in Estrangelo text type, as is the Crawford Codex.
However, according to the article by Bruce Metzger, the beginning and end of the Yonan Codex are of a later hand and this accounts for the Swadaya text type in the photo. I can only guess that the rest of the Yonan Codex is in the Estrangelo text type.
The text of the parchment folios begins with Matthew
9:35 and closes with Hebrews 12:9. Its present binding of
boards includes at the beginning sixteen folios of paper of a
much later date and four folios at the end, each page
containing twenty-one or twenty-two lines of larger script;
these provide in a totally different hand the portions of the
text of Matthew and Hebrews lacking in the original parchment
codex.
The Yonan Codex, an extant text dating much earlier than the Khabouris Codex begs further research in comparison with the Khabouris Codex.
Shlama,
Stephen
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There are two complete extant manuscripts of the Aramaic Peshitta (that I know of) in the west. The Khabouris Codex is well documented and the transcribed source text is made available at <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.dukhrana.com">http://www.dukhrana.com</a><!-- m -->. The other extant manuscript is the Yonan Codex which was originally in the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. but is now in The Van Kampen Collection in Grand Haven, Michigan, USA. In 2002, the Collection relocated to Orlando, Florida.
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.scriptorium.org/vkc.html">http://www.scriptorium.org/vkc.html</a><!-- m -->
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.sbl-site.org/assets/pdfs/Yonan.pdf">http://www.sbl-site.org/assets/pdfs/Yonan.pdf</a><!-- m -->
On page 2 "THE SAGA OF THE YONAN CODEX" by Bruce M. Metzger, Princeton Theological Seminary , the picture of the page containing Matthew 5 (The Beatitudes) is written in East Adiabene (Swadaya) text type. Interestingly pages 13, 14, 38, 39, 53 and 54 of the Khabouris Codex are also written in the Swadaya text type. The rest of the Khabouris Codex is in Estrangelo text type, as is the Crawford Codex.
However, according to the article by Bruce Metzger, the beginning and end of the Yonan Codex are of a later hand and this accounts for the Swadaya text type in the photo. I can only guess that the rest of the Yonan Codex is in the Estrangelo text type.
The text of the parchment folios begins with Matthew
9:35 and closes with Hebrews 12:9. Its present binding of
boards includes at the beginning sixteen folios of paper of a
much later date and four folios at the end, each page
containing twenty-one or twenty-two lines of larger script;
these provide in a totally different hand the portions of the
text of Matthew and Hebrews lacking in the original parchment
codex.
The Yonan Codex, an extant text dating much earlier than the Khabouris Codex begs further research in comparison with the Khabouris Codex.
Shlama,
Stephen
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