Recently at the
NT Textual Criticism discussion-group on Facebook, Georgi Parpulov announced the existence of an manuscript containing text from Acts 9:31-10:5 which has not been assigned a Gregory-Aland identification number. Let's take a closer look at this fragment, which is in the
Bachkovo Monastery.
Parpulov assigns it to the 1100s. Its text is thoroughly Byzantine, agreeing with the Robinson-Pierpont Byzantine Textform in thirteen out of thirteen legible (to me) variation-units. It has one unusual omission, in 9:33, where the words ἐπὶ κραββάτῳ are absent.
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Yes, I had seen that fragment a year or two ago, and had searched for all the Greek manuscripts in Bulgaria but the rest of those are kept in Sofia. I do not even know whether those are available to the public to see. Possibly there is some dispute about whether some should be returned to Greece, since most of them seem to come from there (Bulgaria has precious few Greek manuscripts even though it is right beside Greece). I do not know why the Bachkovo fragment did not have a Gregory-Aland number when it was publicly displayed and not unknown. Maybe someone has reason to think it belongs to a known manuscript? But again, there are very few Greek Bible mansuscripts in Bulgaria, so this is unlikely.
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