Codex Monacensis


Codex Monacensis designated by X or 033, A3, is a Greek uncial manuscript of the Gospels, dated palaeographically to the 9th or 10th century. The manuscript is lacunose.

Contents

Mark 14-16 is illegible.

Description

The codex, which has survived in a fragmentary condition, was written on 160 thick parchment leaves. The text was written in two columns, 45 lines per page, in small, upright uncial letters, by a "very elegant" hand with breathing marks, accents and some compressed letters. The codex contains portions of the four Gospels in the order of: John, Luke, Matthew and Mark. Matthew followed by Mark is also found in the Latin codex k.
The text of the Gospels contains a patristic commentary written in minuscule letters.
There are no divisions such as τίτλοι, and the Ammonian sections and Eusebian Canons are absent. The texts of and John 7:53-8:11 are omitted. Mark has the longer ending, but the word γάρ is missing at the end of Mk 16,8.

Text

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type, with occasional readings deemed to be from the Alexandrian text-type. Aland gave it profile 1051, 381/2, 12, 11S and placed it in Category V.
In Mark 9:49 it has the textual variant πας γαρ πυρι αλι αλισθησεται instead of πας γαρ πυρι αλισθησεται.

History

The codex was held in Innsbruck in 1757. It has been in Rome, Ingolstadt, and in 1827 arrived in Munich. Now the codex is located in the Munich University Library in Munich.
The codex was examined by Joseph Dobrovsky, who collated some of its readings for Johann Jakob Griesbach. Scholz collated it again, but wasn't a good collation. Tischendorf collated its text in 1844 and Tregelles in 1846. Burgon examined the manuscript in 1872.