Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Gospel for Trinity Sunday as in the Codex Fuldensis Gospel

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.

Gospel for Trinity Sunday as in the Codex Fuldensis Gospel
Witnessed in Cod. Sang. 56.
Using data publicly available from:
http://www.liturgyoffice.org.uk/Calendar/2009/Jun09.shtml
and The Sunday Missal to cross-check.
This Week's Gospel: Matt 28: 16 - 20
(7th-Jun-2009) Trinity Sunday, year B

Baptise them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
Here we are recapitulating a reading we have seen only a fortnight ago. So, we here look at though, only the opening pargraphs of the capitulum: SG 241: 1 to 242: 3

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.)

Those sharp eyed amongst you might notice that this reading was also given a couple of weeks ago under the heading:
This Week's Gospel: Mark 16: 15 - 20
(24th-May-2009) Ascension of the Lord, Year B

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.

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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:
141 pages out of 620 completed so far……

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