The Muratorian Fragment : text, translation, commentary / Clare K. Rothschild.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rothschild, Clare K., 1964- author.

Series:

Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum ; 132.

STAC ; [132]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. New Testament.

Bible.

Christian life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (483 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tübingen, Germany : Mohr Siebeck, [2022]

Summary:

This volume offers an introduction, critical edition, and fresh English translation of the Muratorian Fragment. In addition to addressing questions of authorship, date, provenance, and sources, Clare K. Rothschild carefully analyzes the text's language, composition, genre, and possible functions with reference to a breathtaking range of scholarly positions and findings from the eighteenth century to the present. She also investigates its position within the eclectic eighth-century Muratorian Codex (Ambr. I 101 sup.). A line-by-line philological commentary draws attention to literary, philosophical, and religious aspects of the individual traditions represented. This study should be of interest to scholars of the New Testament and early Christian literature, as well as experts on the emergence of the canon and historians of the Latin Medieval West.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Acknowledgments

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations

Chapter One: History, Genre, Text

A. Introduction

B. Problems in the Study of the Muratorian Fragment

Presumed Date(s) of Composition

C. Theoretical Issues

Text and Genre

Deciphering the Genre

Analysis

Excursus: Decretum Gelasianum

Eucherius of Lyons

D. Text and Translation

Critical Edition

E. English Translation

Conspectus: Muratorian Fragment

F. Composition

Table 1. Ring Composition

G. Conclusion

Chapter Two: History of Scholarship

B. Manuscript Discovery

1740-1840: Discovery and Initial Reaction

1840-1940: Renaissance of Interest

Tregelles's Visit to the Biblioteca Ambrosiana

Excursus: Tregelles's Letter to His Cousin

Brooke Foss Westcott (1825-1901)

Friedrich Hermann Hesse, Theodor Zahn, Gottfried Kuhn

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

August Reifferscheid, Guerrino Amelli, Carl Paul Caspari, Paolo Angelo Ballerini

Giovanni Mercati (1866-1957)

Cuthbert Hamilton Turner (1860-1930), John Chapman, O. S. B. (1865-1933), Edgar Simmons Buchanan (1872-1932), Henri Leclerq (1869-1945)

Saverio Ritter, Agostino Saba

Excursus: Documentary Notes

1940-Present

Albert C. Sundberg Jr. (1921-2006)

Geoffrey M. Hahneman

Mirella Ferrari

Carolyn Osiek

William Horbury

C. Conclusion

Chapter Three: Codicology, Paleography, and Contents of Ambr. I 101 sup.

B. Codicology of Codex Ambr. I 101 sup

Introduction

Provenance: Bobbio Abbey

Excursus: Bobbio Catalogue

Excursus: Comparative Evidence

Physica Description, General Conditions, Appearance and Numbering of Leaves and Gatherings

Table 1. Elements of the Codex

Table 2. Quire Signatures in Ambr. I 101 sup

Table 3. Number of Lines per Page in the Muratorian Codex.

Excursus: Computus

Tables of Contents of Codex Ambr. I 101 sup

Table 4. Monti's Two Tables of Contents in Ambr. I 101 sup

Table 5. Comparison of Two Reports of Contents of Ambr. I 101 sup

C. Paleography and Orthography of Ambr. I 101 sup

Organizational Paratext, Ornamentation, Marginalia

Summation

D. Actual Contents of Ambr. I 101 sup

Table 6. Contents of Ambr. I 101 sup. ("Muratorian Codex")

Discussion of the Contents of Ambr. I 101 sup

Table 7. Contents of the Muratorian Codex

Excursus: Anonymous, Abraham's Sermon

Table 8. Pseudo-Augustine, Sermo 7 and the Sermo de Abraham

E. Conclusion

Chapter Four: Latinity of the Muratorian Fragment

B. The Fragment's Language: A Brief History of the Debate

Latinity

Julio Campos

Bilingual Case for Victorinus of Pettau

Greek Translation

Excursus: Victorinus, Comm. Apoc. 1.7 and the Muratorian Fragment

Table 1. Victorinus, Comm. Apoc. 1.7 and MF ll. 46-63

Conclusion

C. Medieval Manuscript Abbreviation Hypothesis

Abbreviation Systems

Major Abbreviation Symbols

Orthography at Monte Cassino

Hypothesis of an Abbreviated Archetype

Table 2. Hypothetical Reconstruction of the Fragment's Abbreviated Archetype

Menda vera

Scribal Training

D. Ecclesiastica disciplina

Chapter Five: External Evidence for the Muratorian Fragment

B. External Evidence

The Benedictine Prologues

Prologue Text

English Translation

Introduction in Monte Cassino 235 (C2)

C. Analysis

Table 1. Parallels between the Benedictine Prologues and the Muratorian Fragment

Table 2. Parallels between the Muratorian Fragment and the Benedictine Prologues

Table 3. Parallels Among the Four Benedictine Prologues

Table 4. Letter Lists Across the BPs.

Adolf von Harnack

Ambrogio Maria Amelli

Euthalian Apparatus

Table 5. BPs, Euthalian Apparatus, Vulgate Preface to Paul's Letters

Conclusion: Benedictine Prologues

Chromatius of Aquileia

Table 6. MF and Chromatius on Luke

Table 7. MF and Chromatius, Tract. Mat., prologue

Table 8. Regulae fidei

Anti-Marcionite Gospel Prologues

Monarchian Prologues

Table 9. Lukan Prologues

Table 10. Lukan Authorship in Four Witnesses

D. Conclusion

Table 11. The Muratorian Fragment and Biblical Prologues

Chapter Six: Commentary

Extent and Significance of the Parallel Texts

B. Commentary

Gospels

Mark

Table 1. Tregelles's Discussion of Early Reconstructions of the Fragment's First Line

Table 2. Distribution of Lines Dedicated to Individual Texts Listed in the Fragment

Luke

John

Excursus: Acts of Timothy

Table 3. Attestation of the Elements in the Johannine Legend

Regula fidei

Excursus: Diatessaron

1 John

Acts of All the Apostles

Letters of Paul

Excursus: "Schism of Heresy"

Two Spurious Letters

Laodiceans

Alexandrians

Jude and 2 Johannine Letters

Wisdom of Solomon

Three Apocalypses

Revelation

Apocalypse of Peter

Shepherd of Hermas

Periodic Reading

Other Witnesses to the Fraternity Legend

Liberian Catalogue

Carmen adversus Marcionitas

Liber Pontificalis

Spurious Letters of Pius

Letter to All Churches about the Date of Easter

Letter to Justus of Vienne

Fraternity Legend and the Shepherd of Hermas

Excursus: We-Passages of the Muratorian Fragment

Catalogue of Heretical Texts

Table 4. Parallel Heretical Catalogues

Chapter Seven: A Star Rising in the Darkness

A. Results

B. Hypothetical Historical Contexts

Arithmology and the Medieval Church.

Unification of the Church during the Fourth Century

Heresiology

Rufinus of Aquileia

Ambrosiaster

Table 1. Ambrosiaster and the Fragment: Parallel Words and Phrases

Table 2. Fragment with Structural Conjunctions Highlighted

Excursus: Evagrius of Antioch

Concluding Remarks

Appendices

A. Theories concerning the Authorship of the Muratorian Fragment

B. Two Letters by Antonio Maria Ceriani

C. Fragmentum Muratorianum Iuxta Codices Casinenses

D. Muratori's Latin Introduction to the Fragment

E. English Translation of Muratori's Introduction

F. Sermo de Abraham (Ambr. I 101 sup., fols. 72r-73r)

G. Synopsis of Reconstructions of a Hypothetical Greek Urtext

H. Five Regulae Fidei ("Statements of Faith")

I. Lovers Doodle of the 'Muratorian Codex' (Ambr. I 101 sup.)

Table 1. Running Headers in Ambr. I 101 sup

Table 2. Liquid Damage

Bibliography

Index of Sources

Index of Modern Authors

Index of Subjects.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Rothschild, Clare K. The Muratorian Fragment

ISBN:

9783161611759