Codex Seidelianus II


Codex Seidelianus II designated by He or 013, ε 88, is a Greek uncial manuscript of the four Gospels, dated palaeographically to the 9th century. The manuscript is lacunose.

Description

The codex contains 194 parchment leaves. The text is written in one column per page, and 23 lines per column. The codex contains the text of the four Gospels with major lacunae.
The codex contains lists of the κεφαλαια, numbers of the κεφαλαια at the margin, the τιτλοι at the top, the Ammonian Sections but not the Eusebian Canons.
It has breathings and accents.

Text

The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland gave to it textual profile 1741 821/2 22 7s and placed it in Category V. It belongs to the textual family E, but according to the Claremont Profile Method it represents the textual family Kx.

History

The codex was brought from the East by Erasmus Seidel at the beginning of the 17th century, together with Codex Seidelianus I. Maturin Veyssière de La Croze bought it 1718, in the same time as Seidelianus I.
Since 1838 the codex is located in Hamburg Universitätsbibliothek. One leaf of the codex is housed at Trinity College, Cambridge.
It was examined by Petersen, Bentley, Tregelles, Tischendorf, and Gregory.