AN ARMENIAN MANUSCRIPT OF THE GOSPELS Author(s): R. P.

AN ARMENIAN MANUSCRIPT OF THE GOSPELS
Author(s): R. P. Casey
Source: The Journal of Theological Studies, Vol. 30, No. 120 (JULY, 1929), pp. 356-361
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THE
356
mere
scribal
« 183 =
but
is
can
be
errors.
Gregory's
little
The
of the
doubt
nth
that
r still
is
professes
Vatopedi
Where
are
readings
to be
STUDIES
to have
century.
the
seems
THEOLOGICAL
exception
which
1582,
perhaps
differ
they
OF
JOURNAL
rather
von
been
written
1 and
1582
those
the
=
747
of Family
better
Soden's
in a.d.
agree
949,
there
1, and
where
Cod.
representative.
22,
judging fromthe collation in theJournal of Biblical Studies xxxiii 91 ff,is
a poor
relation
are
heavily
It
Calabrian.
the
has
others
some
time
group
and
have
the
on
from
'
the
fact that
'
Caesarean
many
which
been
felt
and
in 124.
the
isolated
inclined
curious
to
the length
as
a
to
and
MS
'
the
in
the
into
; on
the
other
xii
14,
referred
at
has
In
is the immediate
the small
will
remarks
to
the
be
interest
occasion
feel
been
two
morocco
decoration
Writing,
to
group
of the
that
shed
any
since
correctly
of the
collection
is
Oriental
columns
with
of
richly
bolorgir.
(Add.
glazed
20
covers.
lines
each.
in
spelling
headings,
and
appears
the
Cambridge
Text
Tetra
χ \\ in.
6|
modern
English
capitals,
and
colours.
to
Burkitt.
interest.1
in.
9^x6^
Binding,
gold
stimulating
GOSPELS
at
of unusual
Size
paper.
C.
THE
manuscripts
2620)
Illuminated
executed
The
OF
of Armenian
one
interpreted
very
of them.
MANUSCRIPT
Library
evangelium.
In
hand
the
sub-family
cannot
MS
apparently
'
text,
Ecclesiastical
one
I
to
theory
not
working
other.
interesting
some
is
Mk.
When
124
put
of these
testimony
ARMENIAN
University
an
must
13 &c.)
(=
have
reading
κήνσον
case.
into
also
This
Family
for
rest together
this
Ferrar-group
MSS,
assimilated
retained
an
of the
new
F.
AN
it has
documents
investigation.
that
my readers
book
I
ago
own
I hope
so
of ίπικεφάλαιον
all
light
Ferrar's
by
often
is by no means
special
valuable
element
peculiar
preservation
above,
but
where
reconstruction
of the half-dozen
for the
where
1582,
Matthew,
Byzantinized.
account
account
its
in
any fresh
Finally,
take
of 1 and
text
interesting
be
No
archaic
half
marginal
miniatures.
throughout.
1 Μν thanks are due to the Librarian of the
Cambridge
University Lihrary for
permission to use the manuscript, and to Prof. F. C. Burkitt and Mr A. D. Nock
for many helpful suggestions.
There are six other Armenian manuscripts of the
and containing
gospels at the University
Library.
One, badly damaged
only
to the
Matthew, Mark, and the first few lines of Luke (Add. 2619), is assigned
fourteenth century, but the others are dated between the sixteenth and eighteenth
centuries.
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AND
NOTES
un.
is not
used
not
to
only
and
consonants,
(e.g.
the
text
qpaijip)
to make
spaced
which
often
it likely
Two
archetype.
in
are
folia
the
makes
colophon
else
incorrectly.
senseless
word
and
frequently
too
turn
Mt.
division
of the
f. 5 and
contains
269
divided
the
after
misplaced
F.
and
imperfect
often
is
uyq),
/>
λ in double
before
k in the
are
in
(e.g.
^
also
it represents
that
flf. 268-269.
as
order
wrong
rarely
it occurs
but
with
357
for
appears
division
spacing
but
lr
word
and
are
is a periodic
There
commonly
indicate
L· is interchangeable
Words
where.
the
by fc, ^
replaced
STUDIES
are
in
in
page
found
in the
· · ·
*><·»//»
* ». i ν i6
iii 9
Jhp
Mt. iv 4 "bm
268 contains
'
igmmiuul^u/hft
/ !·Ί·1·:ΐΙ'1'
. · ».
is a folium
• » ·
There
after f. 130 containing
missing
'butnkftιΊιjiu£
. . xvi 4
and another
after f. 136 con
Mk. xv 39 A ui irulr
Jbb-jnjJ. · · Lk. i 76
Lk. i 59 * * *
taining
ιρΓιυΊιηι
Iftb
tj^iuLuJigujp^u
*linpuj.
uilr^
A folium
Jo. xxi ro . . .
containing
Jo. xx 31 ft"b^_ ipptrgiui....
is misplaced
after f. 282 and is found now as f. 101.
impnup
and a colophon
is followed
fourth
from
The
by a doxology
gospel
iv 3
which
the
teacher
clear.
and
in parts
It
begins
without
tjη r.i] m'hftcjti7/
&c.
Zohrab
p.
723
with
the
Armenian
manuscripts
indicate
the
Armenian
Macler3
obvious
version.
and
the
1 Fr. Ν. Akinian
church
of
absence
is otherwise
a
Old
readings
as
Jo.
xvi
ft
affinities
of
known
include
L
the
version,
with
Paris,
and
of 20
other
manuscripts
recently
6
lines
the
but
and
pmijXuîhu
lih
om.
Zohrab
for
of an
is smaller
in the
viii
it is impossible
in h
but
uuiftp
adulterae
form
given
viii 7
j'u,
in Lk. xxii
classification
to do
known
texts
collated
edited
by
of
more
than
of
the
by Prof.
F.
Prof.
P.
R.
The
my attention to the importance of this date.
of a.d.
from a colophon
Cf. L. Alishan,
1222.
Venice, 1885, p. 222.
D^uniiuï,
* A
bishop Basil is known in the neighbourhood
op. cit., p. 233.
' F.
Macler,
his
ft ju/b
and
3 with
ρ [[ftp·
stemma
gospels
has called
Basil2
L has thepericope
Jo.
in
for
hand
qtun.
r-ir
ii r and
of the
Georgian
viii
variants
Sis
for prayers
pujipJuirpftifft
satisfactory
These
columns
the
npp
two
only
father
John,
in
by a fragment
and
heading,
but
It reads
Mt.
<Çiupgu/hhrntftb.
h
om.
L·
43—44
pL Lijiui....
In
faded
a monk,
Marina
asks
occupied
ntJljLp
gospel
a
St
scribe
in double
badly
by
of
spiritual
are
Of the doubtful
uirj-tupft%nu pig,
not at the end of the
in
own
a
written
It is also
is brown
jt/hjtJ!·
ρ ft
285
The
his
b-286
executed
Church
666).'
for
and
Ff.
Gregory.
ink
less
himself
discourse.
ascetic
at the
Arm.
(A.
was
manuscript
Vardan
1217
and
Vardan
the
Vardapet
a.d.
year
the
that
it appears
for a certain
Le texte arménien
de Îevangile
of Sis in a. d. 1222.
(Annales
du museé
Cf. Alishan
Guimet xxviii).
1919.
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358
THE
JOURNAL
Blake
has
Blake.1
of the
Armenian
supposes
the
The
discovered
than
latter
of
many
its transmission
With
regard
affinities
of
Macler's
Ls
of readings
other
be
M
group,
in
of its two
text
I have
and
also
usually
outside
of
The
affinity
F.
tends
the
of F
to this
but
the
with
frequently
against
together
The
are taken
from
following
readings
with Macler's
collations
and with Blake's
In
with
dealing
When
raised.
labels
the
one
what
case.
In
testament
1805.
table
arménien,
of
are
publié
the
which
(49)
best
is not
Ζ stands
text
for two
that
always
Macler's
par Zohrab
can
the
note
be
same
reads
i-iv
Mk.
Group
from
qui
things,
(1)
the
as
that
L·
and
and
two
the
Old
both
Georgian.
be
method
must
Z,
Macler
regularly
says
bon
lies
in knowing
Ζ in any given
'
Ζ = Nouveau
à Venise
le
meilleur
'.
This,
text
Macler's
with
marked
de sa Bible)
of the printed
'anT
case
compared
symbol
printed
from
rule
in the
of
nomenclature
le moins
Ζ and
this
authorities.
it, each
he
est
Ζ :
save
difficulty
by the
signs
evidence
to
of the
edition
p. vi)
established
The
of Group
notable
(4e fascicule
notre
à Mq,
is
of
manuscripts
Z.
or Syriac
The
cit.
(op.
non-Z
Exceptions
other
no
observed
of
it.
variants
represented
dans
par opposition
that
gives
symbols
have
question
it is derived.
which
In-16.—Désigne
means
48
then
manuscripts
his
arménien,
(2)
discussing
within
from
manuscript
exactly
one
variants
Ζ and
portions
and
collations,
reading
agreement
is, in the
in Group
Macler's
by
The
Georgian
LME229
group
supported
tendency
the position
Greek
the
is a small
or
other
peculiarities
in eitRer
members
to
appears
of L with
this
I
within
of
representative
alone
(either
manuscripts
read
good
the
Macler,
by
exception
to strengthen
support
a
divided.
of LME229
the authority
find
and
version
with his two favourite
E229, against
or of other
Mq,
Georgian
to support
L
The
eliminated.
studied
is
LME229.
fairly evenly
between
H,
F,
of the
the grouping
examined,
It
ME22'
against
and
been
Ε
only
with
agrees
Z)
M
allies,
connexion
like
The
than
persistent
one
of
E229.
of group
and
manuscripts
of the Armenian
manuscripts
agrees
L
form
earlier
obvious.2
plain.
most closely
which
members
less
and
have
readings
Armenian
tolerably
Ζ and
known
for the history
Georgian
the
are
Group
of that
a
is, therefore,
to
an
Georgian
of the
of the original
version.
early revision
'
'
text while
in the
Caesarean
markedly
Caesarean
Old
the Old
text
vulgate
an
had
the
STUDIES
THEOLOGICAL
under
to represent
of the
importance
and
the
version
original
vulgate
OF
texte
however,
of Zohrab
ten
edition,
and
manuscripts
e.g.
Mk.
ujrjJtL. jtuqlrutjfc
ix
'
et
1 R. P.
The Old Georgian Version of the Gospel of Mark (Patrologia
Blake,
Orientalis xx 3).
Paris, 1928.
2 Harvard
Theological Review, xxi and Oct. 1928, pp. 286 if.
3 I have
adopted L as a symbol for Camb. Univ. Lib. Add. 2620, but otherwise
followed
Macler's
notation,
op. cit., pp. v-vi.
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NOTES
tout
le
sacrifice
sin.
syr.
avec
du
Mais
se
en Ta
αλισθησίται
Ζ does
not
stand
description
on
MBDE,
ici
par
48
It is on
The
and
and
προφηταις)
with ME229
by
of
in
the
the
It
(and
which
Mg)
is
supported
singular
Irqlt-
followed
by
before
and
(iyévero)
L which
ix
in BDE.
Z.
rule
general
omission
ME229MqABCEFH
variants
and
the
tj^u/buiufuip^
of
(iv τοις
τω
Ήσαιω
C, and
F.
ό8ονς)
is
(ràç
iii 1 with
Mai.
Tbet'
Tbet'
by
influence
mpt, (iV
of Mq,
In Mk. i 4-5
ME229
against
in agreement
M omits L (και)
but
(ΐβαπτίζοντο)
L is
Here
JlfpuikpL·
Ε229 BDE.
with
reads
Mk.
ft Jiup^iupku
and
Opiza
at
from
the
t^hi/buju^tup^u
Armenian
text of
by
the
the
not
in Group
readings
to the
verse
with the Peschitto and Greek MSS.
before
other
least
are
at least,
tTiuρ
of the
read
reading
under
it, probably
and
at
which
Armenian
text Of Zohrab
same
have
Here
by
in the
against
influence
it agrees.
Adysh
Γ)
Ζ
manuscripts.
supported
the Georgian,
L
under
i 2 the
the
exception
by D
retains
is supported
MEa9L,
probably
which
θίον)
Mk.
reading
other
L supported
MS.
ces quatre
mss.
Ε229 seront
signalées
one
can
only infer
from
in the
classified
is
αλι
présentent
are contained,
is an
et
grecs
θνσια
Here
obviously
it correspond
to its
does
en Pespece
that
Η
I have
against
τον
(υίοΰ
text.
τω προφήτη)
i.e.
Macler
by
In
Greek
The
that
noted
και ττασα
et Zohrab
nor
des
majorité
grec:
Z, variants
by ME229
in the Georgian1
Opiza
some
omitted
la
are misleading
and
ff readings
marked
indicated,
this assumption
thj
nprj-unj
the Adysh
que
of Group
particularly
L agrees
that
of
variantes
170
pp.
en
de Z,
359
par
et
H
type ideal
manuscripts
first case
omis
par ME229
of Zohrab
'Les
au
on
the words
(49)
sali
statements
notes
the moment
text
169.
STUDIES
Pechitto
Κ.—Omis
p.
of all
support
en
for the
Both
in the
sera
lit
rapport
même'.
that
sel
AND
is
not
by
supported
the latter by Opiza
and
229
In Mk- i 8 L reads
Tbet'.
BE
against
(Λliιj)i with Ε
t/I^pmL· d*
the Georgian.
and
of MAD
Mk. i 13
(βαπτίζω)
Similarly
φπρί/rujp
Ε229 BDEL
MF.
against
(inf. act. in pass, sense)
(παραζόμινος)
φη/ii/rp
the Adysh
In
i
Mk.
and
Opiza
MS
in both
17,
however,
but
Tbet',
L and
another
use
E'29.
word
in i 40
manuscripts
and
cure')
not
Georgian
In
i 41
In
Adysh.
but
(ίφιρον)
with
(yevea&u)
[flilrp
MBDE
i 32
L reads
E229
ME229
the present
Mk. i 33 is a striking case of affinity
read
meaning
is apparently
the
omit
ρ!τρΙτ[Λι
MBDE
same
in
only
it with
read
Here
of the
(καθαρίσαι)
is unknown.
does
and Zohrab.
ptrp/Λ with BDE
between
L
reads
by the Georgian
supported
but
instances,
supported
and
the
the
ipnt-puh
rypndhuh.
by all
source
omission
of
(τας
θύρας)
The
the
but
LE229
reading
known
upptrp
Armenian
of Zohrab's
gbuj
(' to
pd^Lp
is supported
E229
by
1 The Old
Georgian is edited from three manuscripts, Adysh,
Cf. Blake's preface and H. Th. R. xx 4 pp. 290 flf,300 ff.
Opiza,
and Tbet'.
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THE
360
and
L and
the
Georgian
Georgian
support
MBDE.
In
(same
Li/L
against
(αυτόν)
LME229
read
In
against
Mk.
ii
and
Zohrab,
the
with
Β
by
and
MDE
the
(ίμερίσθη)
the
of
against
J-nrjntJnuftr^ii (όχλος)
In iv 23 L reads
πι.Ίι/Λ
and
L
the
'harvest',
the
DE
against
the
has
In
ME229B.
giub^tup
Mk. xvi
iv 31
In
Macler
Mk.
Georgian
xvi
codices,
neither
that
9 ff and
the
has
Tbet',
these
Ε229 is the well-known
out
Ε229
MS
verses
of St Mark* are
introduced
St
Mark,
p. civ).
Cf. P.
Ferhatian,
Vienna,
the
against
Ε
and
the
Zohrab
Ίι def.)
ίχα. with
nribftgfiï,
the Georgian
MBDE
against
A-A
<$tuubuj/_
the word
for
as
E229
against
In
uiuu/bbh
from
, (κόκκω)
with
the
adds
with
Georgian
σπερμάτων).
of the ten
follows
he has
manuscripts
contains
it.1
the
after a blank
One
usual
space
of the
custom
has
been
at Edschmiatzin
verses
Huschardzan,
BDE229
with
μην)
with
with
(των
L
follows
agrees
plural
nor
alone
it.
L
L
and
with
ubpJu/liu
nine
Adysh
(βλασφημησοχτιν,
reads
and
the
L
28
of BDE.
^πΛΖρ)
% def.
L omits
'), before
in adding
manuscripts
form
iv 31
notes
in
is
verb
£
iii
MBD
by
to
read
DF)
In
fat?.
35
(indie,
reads
Mast twelve
Sw.ete's
L
the
supports
f, J' (αδελφός
MBDE
L
also
a plural
(' vegetables
omit
1 Macler's
in iv 29
Armenian
Georgian.
examined
against
with
and
θερισμάς,
and
of late
iii
the subjunctive
after
Zohrab,
(τταρεστ-ηκεν,
three
Georgian
L
omits
E229 and
In
(bqpuijp
In iv ι
% def.
{^p.utpJ~iuhlriu^
^ujj^njlrugl/L·
but in iii 29
(plur.)
i]nupr^
ME229
E"29
Georgian
f,J' brjpmjp.
luj
supported
In
L's
uijbgbw^
is omitted
adds
subjunctive
is
(subj.)
singular)
ut ut ιυ Uih.
/y ρ
the
Zohrab
the
^
ME229BD
Georgian
iv 28
read
the
M's
111
lu c/iulilr
M,
2
iii
In iii 5 L renders
Ε229 alone
in iii 12
E229 Zohrab,
read
by
against
In
και).
the Georgian?).
(and
ρ
which
against
Tbet'
and
εδωκεν
(και
!»/·
ME229
nfLupinujiifu/ij against
order
of ME229
and
BDE
L
ÇiujÇnjfitjl/L·
E)
and
bm
Tbet')
and
L,
εδωκεν)
"["il·
(Opiza
against
(και
Similarly
LMBDE,
BE
reading
Opiza
but
against
(VL°s)
the
Georgian?).
Ε
the name
of Jesus,
abs. adding
'
229
E
reads
the nominative;
Jesus'
Georgian.
ing of Zohrab
and
L
omission
(and the
229
BDE
with
229
by ME
by a gen.
περιβλεψάμενος
jfiunt-u[<,
its
against
of ME229
'spirit')
L
Georgian
supported
fubjl/figbis
E229
43
In ii 8 L reads [· ,,/,ρ,,,,,(raïs καρδίαis) with
f· Jftmu ('mind',
L reads
A but
26
i
In ii 7 L does
(77pair t νt'yκαι ι of MBDE.
of Ε 229 which adds
u def. to [uoufi (λαλεί)
readings
and reads « for n,/ (ris).
BDE
In
Zohrab
#?i_
against
( ήκοίσΟι])
j
£LrrjL·.
in ii 4 L follows
the spelling
of E222
but
pXh'h m^
the singular
MBDE.
with
of BDE
Jl,
STUDIES
THEOLOGICAL
against
ijhui
ii 2
Mk.
meaning)
JhpXuiijuj^
not follow
OF
JOURNAL
(a.d. 986) in which the
by the rubric Arision eriteou (see
Mk. xvi 9-20 bei dtn Armeniern,
1911, p. 372.
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AND
NOTES
left.
Of the variants
L agrees
with only
The
L
chief
of the gospels.
of
been
material
and
near
has
Armenian
a.d.
manuscript
of the
early
the
a clearer
Georgian,
in its original
'
ecclesiastical
it, and
the
others
which
have
delicate
one
found
and
classification
which
other
of the
we
have
at
from
any
Apart
from
the
possibility
now
known
be
might
all
do
of
the
processes
control
not
text
the
of
only
of a Byzantine
manuscripts
by
its
known
of the vulgate
gained
readings
Caesarean
present
derived
other
text,
for
Museum
than
gradual
requires
evidence
famous
British
earlier
introduced
the
as
parts
promising
gospels,
well
probably
633,
in Armenian
in through
crept
than
that
of readings
separation
as
'unrevised'
notion
It is certain
form.3
'
type
obviously
Tubingen
centuries
gospels.2
through
Georgian
date
two
of the
a
a
a
than
of the
and
hitherto
in remote
manuscripts
examined1
manuscripts
of investigation
accessible
manuscript
finding
is
be
bears
more
and
in
interest
text
The
of Armenian
knowledge
of this kind
of easily
to
yet
which
19727
archetypé
of
neglect
.at hand.
miniatures,
Add.
surer
feature
concentration
the world
its
and
A curious
the
for this chapter
(pp. 267-270)
'
'
before 'did not believe'.
they
"hngui,
from this cursory
study of the text of
emerges
of a wider
361
by Macler
xvi 14 om.
fact which
is the need
has
recorded
one,
STUDIES
or
not
to
belong
'
'
revision
from
of contamination
only
but
of
also
Armenian
the
Old
of a better
manuscripts
themselves.
R.
AN
('
The
author
earlier
'
UNRECORDED
purity
of
and
He
the Jewish
draft composed
to say
began
immunity
War,
in his
ARAMAISM
unto
'
IN
P.
Casey.
JOSEPHUS
them').
of the Greek'
style of the
'
'
a
translation
of an
ostensibly
'
'
has often been noted
vernacular
tongue,4
from
a
Semitism
work
1
Ma. xiii ι. Cf. F. N. Finck and L. Gjan
Tubingen,
Universitâtsbibliothek,
Verzeichnis der armenischen Handschriften,
dschezian,
pp. 3-5 ; J. Strzygowski,
Handes
Kleinarmenische
Miniaturenmalerei.
Fr. N. Akinian,
Tubingen,
1907.
Amsorya xxxi-xxxii
pp. 159-160.
(1917-18),
2 I have noted from a
of this manuscript that, of the doubtful
hasty examination
readings, it agrees with Zohrab at Mt. ii 9, om. Mt. xvi 3, om. Lk. xxii 43-44
L·.
trpb-lrtjuiu
^fiL.u/hrpnuP[iuhy
♦· ·
. . ·
om. Jo. V 4 li^pLr^miuI^
brrjJruM^ [1 J ^ρ [[ftp,
om. Jo. vii 53-viii II, Mk. i I orn. nprpt.nj
ω/, Mk. i I
jlrUUlj[l
ifujρ tf-Wρb ·
3 In
dealing with this problem, the Biblical quotations of early Armenian authors
i An Armenian
Diatessaron
not be overlooked.
Cf. F. C. Conybeare,
should
',
J.T.S. April 1924, pp. 232 if.
4
B.J. i 3 μ^ταβαλων à roîs άνω βαρβάροις τη ιτατρίψ συντάζα? àvintpxpa πρότ(ρον.
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