Thursday, September 03, 2020

Gorgias Open Repository, Including Codex Zacynthius

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Gorgias Press has just posted about their Open Repository. It looks to be a collection of all their open access books. There are a number of books of interest to text critics, a few of which have been known about for some time. But I wanted especially to highlight the inclusion of Kiraz’s great book on the Syriac dot and the two new volumes in the Text and Studies series on Codex Zacynthius edited by Hugh Houghton et al. Here are the descriptions of the latter two:

This book consists of a series of studies of Codex Zacynthius (Cambridge, University Library MS Add. 10062), the earliest surviving New Testament commentary manuscript in catena format. A research project funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council has produced new multispectral images of the palimpsest undertext in order to enable a thorough investigation of the manuscript and the creation of a complete electronic edition. This volume, co-authored by the members of the project, will provide a full account of the research undertaken by the project. Many advances have resulted from this research, which will be presented here for the first time in print.

This book is the first-ever edition of the complete palimpsest undertext of Codex Zacynthius (Cambridge, University Library MS Add. 10062), the earliest surviving New Testament commentary manuscript in catena format. It relies on new multispectral images produced by a research project funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council in 2018.

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  1. A key question is how does Tregelles' facsimile edition now compare against the new edition?

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    1. Well, it's not a true facsimile but printed using Alexandrian type.

      Greenlee printed a set of corrections to Tregelles in the 1950s, most of which are borne out by the new multispectral images.

      We have made 11 further corrections to Tregelles, which are listed in the volume of studies: only three are significantly different readings in the gospel text, which Peter Head has already listed on this blog.

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  2. Leapin' lizards; how long did that volume on the lectionary take?!

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  3. Thanks you, Gorgias Press, for these excellent resources!

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