Syriac manuscripts

Steven Avery

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https://forums.carm.org/threads/syr...e-line-and-the-comma.9270/page-43#post-918727

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in this case at least for that Syriac manuscripts available on the internet(in someone I really looked for where 1 Jn 5, 7 was (Syriac numbering: 1 Jn 5,8), only 2 or so I have not yet verified them! I do not find anyone who differs from ''the Spirit is Truth. And there are three that testify the Spirit and the water and the blood... ''. This is a list of those found on the internet, not all of them:
 

Steven Avery

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The earlier lists from TNC I will place here.
Many have question marks as to the verse.
https://forums.carm.org/threads/syriac-peshitta-kjvo-pure-line-and-the-comma.9270/page-2#post-690435


British Library, Add. 14470, (circa. 5th-6th century A.D./C.E.)
The oldest extant Syriac manuscript of the complete New Testament (all 22 books). Contains the Catholic Epistles.
Folio 174a = beginning of 1st John,
Folio 176v = end of 1st John.
(Colophon = Folio 176b).
(Cf. William Wright, “Catalogue of the Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum,” Reprinted 2002, Page 40, and Cf. Institut für Neutestamentliche Textforschung, INTF “Das Neue Testament in syrischer Überlieferung,” Volume 2, Part 3, Page 29).

BNF, Syr. 341 (circa. 5th-7th century A.D./C.E.)
Peshitta Old and portions of the New Testament; See the catalog entry here.
No Comma Johanneum.
http://syri.ac/digimss/sortable?page=12
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10527102b/f3.item.r=Syriaque

British Library, Add. 14473, (circa. 6th century A.D./C.E.)
Syriac manuscript of the complete New Testament. Contains the Catholic Epistles.
Folio 129r = beginning of 1st John,
Folio 139v = end of 1st John.
[Comma Johanneum?].
(Cf. William Wright, “Catalogue of the Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum,” Reprinted 2002, Pages 79-80, and Cf. Institut für Neutestamentliche Textforschung, INTF “Das Neue Testament in syrischer Überlieferung,” Volume 2, Part 3, Page 30).


British Library, Add. 17120, (circa. 6th century A.D./C.E.)
Syriac manuscript of the complete New Testament. Contains the Catholic Epistles.
Folio 47b = beginning of 1st John.
[Comma Johanneum?].
(Cf. William Wright, “Catalogue of the Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum,” Reprinted 2002, Page 80).

British Library, Add. 17121, (circa. 6th century A.D./C.E.)
Syriac manuscript of the complete New Testament. Contains the Catholic Epistles.
Folio 98r = beginning of 1st John,
Folio 106r = end of 1st John.
[Comma Johanneum?].
(Cf. William Wright, “Catalogue of the Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum,” Reprinted 2002, Page 81 and Cf. “Das Neue Testament in syrischer Überlieferung,” Volume 2, Part 3, Page 27).


British Library, Add. 14472, (circa. 6th-7th century A.D./C.E.)
Syriac NT manuscript. Contains the Catholic Epistles.
Folio 67a = beginning of 1st John.
[Comma Johanneum?].
Some marginalia, but from a later hand, and unrelated to the Comma Johanneum.
(Cf. William Wright, “Catalogue of the Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum,” Reprinted 2002, Pages 81-82).

British Library, Add MS 14448 (circa. 6th-7th century A.D./C.E.)
Syriac NT manuscript. Contains the Catholic Epistles.
Folio 160v = beginning of 1st John,
Folio 164r = end of 1st John.
[Comma Johanneum?].
(Cf. William Wright, “Catalogue of the Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum,” Reprinted 2002, Pages 41-42 and Cf. Institut für Neutestamentliche Textforschung, INTF “Das Neue Testament in syrischer Überlieferung,” Volume 2, Part 3, Page 30).


British Library, Add. 18812, (circa. 6th-7th century A.D./C.E.)
Syriac NT manuscript. Contains the Catholic Epistles.
Folio 55a = ending with chapter 2:16
[Folio 55b = is missing possibly = may be an incomplete MS of 1st John]
[Comma Johanneum?].
(Cf. William Wright, “Catalogue of the Syriac manuscripts in the British Museum,” Reprinted 2002, Page 83).

There is definitely no Comma in this New Testament manuscript (I know, because I painstakingly examined the Syriac until I found 1st John 5:7-8, - of which I have digital snapshots of),

Goodspeed Ms. 716, (circa. 6th-7th century A.D./C.E.)
Syriac Peshitta NT Fragments, (Formerly Goodspeed Ms. Syr. 26). University of Chicago Library, Goodspeed Manuscript Collection.
Contains the Catholic Epistles.
1st John 5:7-8 = Folio 32v, (Page/Image 64).
Confirmed, by personal examination, there is no Comma Johanneum in this MS.
http://goodspeed.lib.uchicago.edu/view/index.php?doc=0716&obj=064

There is definitely no Comma in this New Testament manuscript (I know, because I also painstakingly examined the Syriac until I found 1st John 5:7-8, - of which I have digital snapshots of)


Vat. sir. 266 (circa. 6th-7th century A.D./C.E.)
Syriac NT manuscript. Contains the Catholic Epistles (Folio's 154r-157v).
Folio 157r = 1st John 5:7-8 (starts sixth line from bottom right column).
Confirmed, by personal examination, there is no Comma Johanneum in this MS.
(Cf. Institut für Neutestamentliche Textforschung, INTF“Das Neue Testament in syrischer Überlieferung,” Volume 2, Part 3, Pages 28-29).
http://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.sir.266
https://roger-pearse.com/wiki/index.php?title=Vatican_Syriac_manuscripts



BNF, Syr. 361 (circa. 8th-9th century A.D./C.E.)
Syriac Peshitta NT manuscript. Contains Acts, and the Catholic Epistles (Folio's 118-169).
[Comma Johanneum?].
http://syri.ac/digimss/sortable?page=13



BNF, Syr. 342 (circa. 8th-9th century A.D./C.E.)
Syriac Peshitta NT manuscript. Contains the Catholic Epistles.
Folio 169v = 1st John 5:7.
[Comma Johanneum?].
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10528606c/f344.item.r=Syriaque.zoom
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10528606c/f1.item.r=Syriaque.zoom


NOTE: None of the British Library manuscripts listed above have been digitized (to my knowledge). The other manuscripts which are online, I will get images of the 1st John 5:7-8 texts in the near future.

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British Library, Add. 14470, (circa. 5th-6th century A.D./C.E.)
BNF, Syr. 341 (circa. 5th-7th century A.D./C.E.)

British Library, Add. 14473, (circa. 6th century A.D./C.E.)
British Library, Add. 17120, (circa. 6th century A.D./C.E.)

British Library, Add. 17121, (circa. 6th century A.D./C.E.)
British Library, Add. 14472, (circa. 6th-7th century A.D./C.E.)
British Library, Add MS 14448 (circa. 6th-7th century A.D./C.E.)
British Library, Add. 18812, (circa. 6th-7th century A.D./C.E.)
Goodspeed Ms. 716, (circa. 6th-7th century A.D./C.E.)
Vat. sir. 266 (circa. 6th-7th century A.D./C.E.)
BNF, Syr. 361 (circa. 8th-9th century A.D./C.E.)
BNF, Syr. 342 (circa. 8th-9th century A.D./C.E.)
 
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