Codex Purpureus

In New Testament criticism,  a Byzantine Gospels made in the 6th century plays a celebrated role in debate because its texts do not always fit well with other ancient Greek text traditions. Codex N or the Codex Purpureus (sometimes also called the Codex Caesariensis) has been hacked apart (apparently by the Crusaders) with the sections now in many libraries.

The biggest section of the 231 extant folios is in St Petersburg, while the Vatican holds six folios, shelfmarked Vat.gr.2305, which have just arrived online. They contain Matthew 19:6-13; 20:6-22; 20:29-21:19. The parchment was formerly dyed purple, but the dye has faded. See Robert B Waltz and Wikipedia.

Additions this week bring the Vatican manuscripts portal up to 13,258 items. Here is a selection from the major collections:

1. Arch.Cap.S.Pietro.I.4
2. Barb.lat.307
3. Borg.copt.109.cass.XXIX.fasc.164
4. Borg.copt.109.cass.XXVIII.fasc.158
5. Ott.gr.426
6. Ott.lat.2911
7. Reg.lat.20
8. Ross.694
9. Urb.gr.154
10. Urb.lat.451
11. Urb.lat.467
12. Urb.lat.937
13. Urb.lat.975
14. Urb.lat.1740
15. Urb.lat.1759
16. Urb.lat.1775
17. Vat.ar.17.pt.1
18. Vat.ar.17.pt.2
19. Vat.ebr.5
20. Vat.ebr.48
21. Vat.ebr.258
22. Vat.gr.19
23. Vat.gr.157
24. Vat.gr.2305 Codex Purpureus N (above)
25. Vat.gr.2659
26. Vat.lat.192 - Details
27. Vat.lat.240 - Details
28. Vat.lat.582 - Details
29. Vat.lat.815 - Details
30. Vat.lat.966 - Details
31. Vat.lat.997 - Details
32. Vat.lat.998 - Details
33. Vat.lat.1003 - Details
34. Vat.lat.1007 - Details
35. Vat.lat.1030 - Details
36. Vat.lat.1046 - Details
37. Vat.lat.1047 - Details
38. Vat.lat.1049 - Details
39. Vat.lat.1050 - Details
40. Vat.lat.1052 - Details
41. Vat.lat.1062 - Details
42. Vat.lat.1064 - Details
43. Vat.lat.1065 - Details
44. Vat.lat.1069 - Details
45. Vat.lat.1075 - Details
46. Vat.lat.1078 - Details
47. Vat.lat.1088 - Details
48. Vat.lat.1092 - Details
49. Vat.lat.1097 - Details
50. Vat.lat.1100 - Details
51. Vat.lat.1104 - Details
52. Vat.lat.1108 - Details
53. Vat.lat.1109 - Details
54. Vat.lat.1114 - Details
55. Vat.lat.1115 - Details
56. Vat.lat.1117 - Details
57. Vat.lat.1123 - Details
58. Vat.lat.1125 - Details
59. Vat.lat.1127 - Details
60. Vat.lat.1133 - Details
61. Vat.lat.1144 - Details
62. Vat.lat.1148 - Details
63. Vat.lat.1149 - Details
64. Vat.lat.1150 - Details
65. Vat.lat.1151 - Details
66. Vat.lat.1154 - Details
67. Vat.lat.1157 - Details
68. Vat.lat.1159 - Details
69. Vat.lat.1161 - Details
70. Vat.lat.1166 - Details
71. Vat.lat.1167 - Details
72. Vat.lat.1169 - Details
73. Vat.lat.1172 - Details
74. Vat.lat.1173 - Details
75. Vat.lat.1176 - Details
76. Vat.lat.1177 - Details
77. Vat.lat.1179 - Details
78. Vat.lat.1180 - Details
79. Vat.lat.1189 - Details
80. Vat.lat.1193 - Details
81. Vat.lat.1197 - 11th-century Lives of Martyrs with the beautiful initial below and music manuscripts as endpapers. See Lowe, Beneventan, p. 76 - Details
    
82. Vat.lat.1198 - Details
83. Vat.lat.1208 - Details
84. Vat.lat.1209 - Details
85. Vat.lat.1210 - Details
86. Vat.lat.1211 - Details
87. Vat.lat.1214 - Details
88. Vat.lat.1215 - Details
89. Vat.lat.1216 - Details
90. Vat.lat.1218 - Details
91. Vat.lat.1219 - Details
92. Vat.lat.1224 - Details
93. Vat.lat.1225 - Details
94. Vat.lat.1226 - Details
95. Vat.lat.1231 - Details
96. Vat.lat.1233 - Details
97. Vat.lat.1234 - Details
98. Vat.lat.1236 - Details
99. Vat.lat.1240 - Details
100. Vat.lat.1249 - Details
101. Vat.lat.1257 - Details
102. Vat.lat.1259 - Details
103. Vat.lat.1263 - Details
104. Vat.lat.1272 - Details
105. Vat.lat.1273 - Details
106. Vat.lat.1281 - Details
107. Vat.lat.1290 - with a set of diagrams of prohibited marriages, including that below´covering widowed kin  Details
     
108. Vat.lat.1292 - Details
109. Vat.lat.1295 - Details
110. Vat.lat.1296 - Details
111. Vat.lat.1318 - Details
112. Vat.lat.1332 - fresh manuscript for Pope Nicholas V of council acts, copied from translation by Anastasius Bibliothecarius in 9th century. See my earlier post. HT to @LatinAristotle Details
113. Vat.lat.1579 - Details
114. Vat.lat.1592 - Details
115. Vat.lat.1811 - Details
116. Vat.lat.1821 - Details
117. Vat.lat.1853 - Details
118. Vat.lat.3110, a copy of the Notitia Dignitatum, the government handbook of the Roman Empire in late antiquity - Details
119. Vat.lat.3715, Notitia Dignitatum, military establishment of the Roman Empire, this is a secondary copy from Oxford's - see Ingo Maier pages - Details
     
120. Vat.lat.4437 - 14th century: the incipit at fol 40ra figures in Thorndik/Kibre's catalog of incipits, but I don't have that to look up Details
121. Vat.lat.4480 - Details
122. Vat.lat.10800 - single 7th-century uncial parchment folio containing Pelagius on the Epistles of Paul: TM 66154 = Lowe, CLA 1 58 Latin; Details
123. Vat.lat.14722 worm-eaten 19th century transcription of a 5th century Latin papyrus - Details
124. Vat.lat.15417 - Details
125. Vat.lat.15418 - Details
126. Vat.sam.2
127. Vat.turc.142

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