Codex Sangermanensis I

For the similarly named manuscript, see Codex Sangermanensis.

The Codex Sangermanensis I, designated by g¹ or 7 (in Beuron system), is a 7th or 8th century Latin manuscript of the New Testament. The text, written on vellum, is a version of the Latin. The manuscript contains the Vulgate Bible, on 191 leaves (39.3 by 33 cm) of which, in the New Testament, the Gospel of Matthew contain Old Latin readings.^[1] It contains Shepherd of Hermas.

Description

It contains the Euthalian Apparatus to the Catholic and Pauline epistles.^[2]

The Latin text of the Gospels is a representative of the Western text-type in Itala recension.^[2] The text of Vulgate is with strong admixture of Old Latin elements. The Order of books in New Testament: Gospels, Acts, Catholic epistles, Apocalypse, and Pauline epistles.^[3]

Old Testament

It contains also some books of the Old Testament (Par, Esr, Est, Prv, Sap, Sir). The Stuttgart Vulgate cites it as G in the New and Old Testaments and as S in the appendix. It is one of only two exemplars of the Vetus Latina version of 1 Esdras,^[4] the other being Codex Colbertinus. Sangermanensis, however, only witnesses to the first four chapters, since it ends at 5:3.

It was an important exemplar in the textual history of 2 Esdras. The seventy missing verses from chapter 7 of 2 Esdras correspond to a single page torn out of Sangermanensis. This lacuna propagated into print in early editions of the Bible such as the Clementine Vulgate and the King James Version. These "missing verses" were not available in print until Bensly and James published a critical edition of 4 Ezra in 1895.

Gospel of Matthew

In Matthew 3:15 it has addition: et cum baptizetur lumen ingens circumfulsit de aqua, ita ut timerent omnes qui advenerant a.^[5] In Matthew 3:16 it has addition: dicentes vae vobis quae facta sunt hodiae propter peccata nostra. adpropinquauit enim desolatio hierusalem.^[6]

In Matthew 8:13 (see Luke 7:10) it has additional text: και υποστρεψας ο εκατονταρχος εις τον οικον αυτου εν αυτη τη ωρα ευρεν τον παιδα υγιαινοντα (and when the centurion returned to the house in that hour, he found the slave well) — Codex Sinaiticus, C, (N), Θ, (0250), f¹, (33, 1241), syr^h.^[7]

History

The manuscript formerly was held in the Library of St. Germain des Pres (15). The manuscript was known for Robert Estienne, who used it in his edition of Latin Bible, published in 1538-1540 and again in 1546, quotes as Germ. Lat. It was examined by Richard Simon,^[8] Bianchini, published by Paul Sabatier and Wordsworth.^[1] Currently it is housed at the National Library of France (fond lat. 11553) in Paris.^[1]

See also

Bible portal

• List of New Testament Latin manuscripts
• Codex Sangermanensis II
• Codex Gatianum

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Metzger, Bruce M. (1977). The Early Versions of the New Testament. London: Oxford University Press. p. 298. ISBN 0-19-826170-5. 
2. ^ ^{a b} Gregory, Caspar René (1902). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, Vol. 2. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 604. ISBN 1-4021-6347-9. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne01greggoog#page/n137/mode/2up. 
3. ^ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. 2. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 70. 
4. ^ The Latin Versions of First Esdras, Harry Clinton York, The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, Vol. 26, No. 4 (Jul., 1910), pp. 253-302
5. ^ NA26, p. 6.
6. ^ Tijd Baarda, What kind of Critical Apparatus for the New Testament Do We Need?, in: New Testament Textual Criticism, Exegesis, and Early Church History, Kampen 1994, p. 81.
7. ^ NA26, p. 18
8. ^ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. 2 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 47. 

Further reading

• J. Wordsworth, The Gospel According to St. Matthew from St. German MS g¹, (Old Latin Biblical Texts), I (Oxford, 1883), pp. 5–46.
• A. Jülicher, Itala. Das Neue Testament in Altlateinischer Überlieferung, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York, 1976.