Majuscules
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 September 2009
Summary
For a recent survey see: D.C. Parker, ‘The Majuscule Manuscripts of the New Testament’ in B.D. Ehrman and M.W. Holmes, The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research (Grand Rapids, 1995) pp. 22–42 (= S & D 46)
For a study of the palaeography of the majuscule script see: G. Cavallo, Ricerche sulla maiuscola biolica (Florence, 1967) 2 volumes (= Studi e testi di papirologica 2)
P.W. Comfort and D.P. Barrett, The Complete Text of the Earliest New Testament Mauscripts (Grand Rapids, 1999) includes the full transcripts of the earliest papyri and five majuscules likely to have been written prior to AD 300.
01 ℵ Text reproduced as quasi-facsimile by C. Tischendorf, Codex Sinaiticus Petropolitanus, 4 vols. (NT = vol. 4) (Leipzig, 1862; reprinted Hildesheim, 1969); two further fragments in id., Appendix codicum celeberrimorum Sinaitici Vaticani Alexandrini (Leipzig, 1867) pp. 3–6. The New Testament part was published separately in a critical edition by C. Tischendorf, Novum Testamentum Sinaiticum cum epistola Barnabae et fragmentis Pastoris, etc. (Leipzig, 1863), and, in a more popular form, Novum Testamentum Graece ex Sinaitico codice omnium antiquissimo (Leipzig, 1865) (see also C. Tischendorf, Die Sinaibibel: Ihre Entdeckung, Herausgabe, und Erwerbung (Leipzig, 1871). Photographic edition: Codex Sinaiticus Petropolitanus by H. and K. Lake (2 vols., Oxford, 1911–22), with introduction by K. Lake.
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- A Bibliography of Greek New Testament Manuscripts , pp. 41 - 92Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000