Friday, May 22, 2009

This week's Gospel: The Ascension of the Lord

The actual Latin source is from Sievers’ conflation of the Codex Fuldensis and Codex SanGall#56 with cross references to other partial copies of the Tatianic Gospel, but using Codex Sangallensis 56 as the main source.
Sievers’ work was to reconstruct from multiple witnesses, the best approximation to the Gospel as it left the hands of St Victor.
The Codex Fuldensis is inaccurately refered to as the Victor Codex, which it clearly is not. It is a copy of the Victor Codex, which is now, it seems, lost.
Henceforth, I will refer to the complete work as the Victor Codex, but thereby, I am implicitly referring to the original work from the hand of St. Victor.

This week’s Gospel as in the Victor Codex Gospel: Ascension of the Lord
Witnessed in Cod. Sang. 56.
Using data publicly available from:
http://www.liturgyoffice.org.uk/Calendar/2009/May09.shtml
and The Sunday Missal to cross-check.
This Week's Gospel: Mark 16: 15 - 20
(24th-May-2009) Ascension of the Lord, Year B

He was taken up into heaven: there at the right hand of God he took his place.
This reading complies closely with the closing capitulum of the harminized Gospel. The reading is mainly from Mark, but is generously augmented with insertions fon Matthew and Luke. John, here has nothing to say.
Using the entire capitulum is equivalent o starting the reading at verse 14 instead of 15.
CLXXXI. Ubi discipuli euntes in Galilæam viderunt et adoraverunt dominum et adsumptus est in cælis coram eis.
(Where the disciples going to Galilee see and worship the Lord, and He is assumed into Heaven in their presence.)

241: 1
And the eleven disciples went into Galilee,
unto the mountain where Jesus had appointed them,
and seeing him they worshiped:
but some doubted.
2
And he upbraided them with their incredulity
and hardness of heart,
because they did not believe them
who had seen him
after he was risen again.

242: 1
And spoke to them,
saying:
All power is given to me in heaven and in earth.
2
Go ye into the whole world
and preach the gospel to every creature,
teach ye all nations:
baptising them in the name
of the Father
and of the Son
and of the Holy Ghost,
teaching them to observe all things
whatsoever I have commanded you.
3
And behold I am with you all days,
even to the consummation of the world.
4
He that believeth and is baptised shall be saved:
but he that believeth not shall be condemned.

243: 1
And these signs shall follow them that believe.
2
In my name they shall cast out devils.
They shall speak with new tongues,
and take up serpents.
3
And if they shall drink any deadly thing,
it shall not hurt them.
4
They shall lay their hand upon the sick:
and they shall recover.

244: 1
But stay you in the city
until you be endued with power from on high.
2
And he led them out as far as Bethania:
and lifting up his hands,
he blessed them.
And it came to pass,
whilst he blessed them,
he departed from them
and was carried up to heaven
and sitteth on the right hand of God.

And they worshipping went back into Jerusalem with great joy.
3
And they were always in the temple,
praising and blessing God.
4
And they going forth preached every where:
the Lord working withal,
and confirming the word with signs that followed.

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As a postscript:
Ernestus Ranke’s transliteration of the Codex Fuldensis, with comments in Latin can be read here, and downloaded free of charge as a pdf:
Google Books
and my work in OCRing, and printing to pdf in the original format can be found here:
My OCR file
My intent is to translate the whole work into English, and help would be appreciated in translating the non-scriptural parts of the text, and the prefaces, for which I have no translation key. Particularly Ranke’s technical introduction, and what looks like a poem towards the end.
There is also a great wadge of tables after this poem which is in small print, and difficult to read, including some Greek text. I may, with some regret, omit this, unless someone better than me can provide considerable assistance.
Progress report:
140 pages out of 620 completed so far……

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