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Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

Matthew Fisher, an assistant professor of English at UCLA has put together a Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts. Prof. Fisher has cataloged 1,024 digitized manuscripts out of a potential of 5,000. Several medieval biblical manuscripts are included. Here’s a link to Matthew chapter 1 in a 9th century Greek manuscript from Bobbio, Italy (now housed [...]

The Epistle of James in Vaticanus

Thursday, August 17th, 2006

I’ve previously posted links to images of the Epistle of James in Sinaiticus and Alexandrinus, along with a few papyri and the miniscule text, 676. I have now been able to get my hands on some black and white images of Vaticanus, taken from the 1999 edition produced by the Instituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello [...]

James in Papyri

Sunday, August 13th, 2006

I’ve stumbled upon a few papyri that contain James:

P20 P. Oxy. IX 1171 contains 2:26-3:9 (late 3rd c.; cat. I).
P54 P. Princeton II 15 contains 2:16-18, 22, 24-25, 3:2-4 (5th c.; cat. III).
P100 P. Oxy. LXV 4449 contains 3:13-4:4, 4:9-5:1 (late 3rd c.).

Update (16 Aug 06): Wieland Willker also lists the following fragment of James [...]

Epistle of James in Alexandrinus at CSNTM

Sunday, August 13th, 2006

CSNTM has also made available a photo facsimile of Alexandrinus, an important 5th c. majuscule text.
Here’s the breakdown for James:

1:1-15
image 79a

1:16-2:14
image 79b

2:15-3:16
image 80a

3:17-5:8
image 80b

5:8-5:20
image 81a

The Epistle of James in Sinaiticus at CSNTM

Sunday, August 13th, 2006

I posted earlier on the Epistle of James in Miniscule 676, as found on the CSNTM website. The same organization has recently posted images of the 4th c. majuscule text, Sinaiticus (as found in Kirsopp Lake’s 1911 photograph facsimile). Here’s the breakdown for James in Sinaiticus:

1:1-2:6
image 118b

2:6-3:6
image 119a

3:6-5:9
image 119b

5:9-5:20
image 120a

13th c. Miniscule (676) of James at CSNTM

Friday, August 11th, 2006

Plagued with insomnia, I figured out where the text of the Epistle of James was located in the 13th century miniscule text 676, as available at the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts site. The CSNTM site has a great selection of early manuscripts, and it will have much more in the future. [...]

P.Oxy. LXV 4449 (James 3:13-4:4; 4:9-5:1)

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

Here is a link to a papyrus fragment containing James 3:13-4:4; 4:9-5:1:
http://www.csad.ox.ac.uk/POxy/papyri/vol65/pages/4449.htm