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The Peshitta, the Armenian Bible & the "Caesarean" Text
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I just found a rather fascinating quote from the Cambridge University Journal. I can't view the whole article for some reason (probably have to register) but here's a snippet (emphasis mine):

A Caesarean Text in the Catholic Epistles?

Muriel M. Cardera1
a1 Rajahmunory, India

In giving their appraisal of the host of then unexamined minuscule codices of the Greek New Testament, Westcott and Hort wrote these intriguing words: ???Valuable texts may lie hidden among them; many of them are doubtless sprinkled with relics of valuable texts now destroyed.???. 1 Beside this supposition should be set a well-attested fact, that ???the Precedence of manuscripts depends, not on their age, but on their Pedigree???. 2 These two statements kept on recurring to the writer's mind as she concentrated on a group of six minuscule codices in the area of the Catholic Epistles: MSS 69, 1243, 1319, 1424, 1739, and 1874. 3 The Leicester Codex, MS 69, has long been known to Preserve an ancient lineage even though it was actually copied in the fifteenth century. Might not others of this group, less well known, also Perpetuate a rich heritage? It is the opinion of this writer that one of them does.4


Muriel M. Carder (1970). A Caesarean Text in the Catholic Epistles?. New Testament Studies, 16 , pp 252-270
doi:10.1017/S0028688500012510


I think that point 2 needs repeating:

the Precedence of manuscripts depends, not on their age, but on their Pedigree

And we all know which textual tradition has the finest pedigree <!-- s:biggrin: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/biggrin.gif" alt=":biggrin:" title="Big Grin" /><!-- s:biggrin: -->
Shalom, Shlama, Salaam & Yiasou.
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Re: The Peshitta, the Armenian Bible & the "Caesarean" Text - by Christina - 04-20-2009, 09:54 PM

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