Canon Muratori
Standard abbreviation: Mur. Frag.
Other titles: Muratorian Fragment
Clavis numbers: ECCA 447
VIAF: 184612565
Category: Canon List
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Compiled by Brandon W. Hawk, Rhode Island College
Citing this resource (using Chicago Manual of Style): Hawk, Brandon W. “Gelasian Decree.” e-Clavis: Christian Apocrypha. Accessed DAY MONTH YEAR. https://www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-christian-apocrypha/gelasian-decree/
Created February 2023. Current as of January 2024.
1. SUMMARY
2. RESOURCES
2.1 Web Sites and Other Online Resources
“The Muratorian Canon.” The Development of the Canon of the New Testament.
“Muratorian Fragment.” Wikipedia.
3. BIBLIOGRAPHY
3.1 Manuscripts and Editions
3.1.1 Latin
Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, I 101 sup., fols. 10r-11r (8th cent.) ~ Earlier Latin Manuscripts; MILAN
excerpts (lines 42-50, 54-57, 63-68, 81-85) includedin a prolgoue to the Pauline epistles in four MSS in Monte Cassino; better Latin in these
Cassino, Abbey of Montecassino, 255 (C2) ~ lines 63-68
Cassino, Abbey of Montecassino, 349 (C) ~ lines 42-50
Cassino, Abbey of Montecassino, 535 (C3) ~ lines 81-85
Cassino, Abbey of Montecassino, 552 (C1) ~ lines 54-57
discovered in 1700 by Lodovico Antonio Muratori in the Ambrosian library, fol. 10r-11r; pub in 1740 (cols. 853-56)
Miscellanea Cassinese, ossia nuovi contributi alla storia, alle scienze e arti religiose, raccolti e illustrati per cura dei PP, Benedettini di Montecassino, Anno I, Parte I, Fasc. I: Memorie e Notizie (Nova); Parte II, Fasc. I: Documenti (Vetera) (Tipografia di Montecassino, 1897); 1-5
A. Harnack, ‘Excerpts aus dem Muratorischen Fragment (saec. xi et xii)’ (hereafter, ‘Excerpte’), Theologische Literaturzeitung, 23 (1898), 131-4 (edition; also reprinted in Rothschild 9-10)
PLS 1:33, 653-72; 2:1485
3.2 Modern Translations
3.2.1 English
Schneemelcher, Wilhelm. “The Canon Muratori.” Page 34–36 in vol. 1 of New Testament Apocrypha. Edited by Wilhelm Schneemelcher. Translated by Robert McL. Wilson. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1991 (see also pp. 27-29)
Text: Zahn, Gesch. d.ntl.Kanons 11 1. 1-143 (with commentary); H. Lietzmann. KIT 1.
M933; G. Bardy m DBS V, 1957. cols. 1399-1408. From the abundant literature we may
mention: H. Lietzmann. Wie wurden dte Bucher des NT hi. Schrift^. 1907. pp. 52ff.; K.
Stendhal. ‘The Apocalypse of John and the Episdes of Paul in the Muratorian Fragment’,
in FS OA. Piper. Lomkjn 1%2. pp. 239-245;
H. von Campenhausen, Formation pp. 243-261;
AC. Sundberg. Canon Muratorf. m HTR 66. 1973, 1-41;
J. Beumcr. Das Fragmcnlum Muratori’. m ThWi 48. 1973, 534-550;
H. Burckhardt. ‘Motive und Mafislibe der Kanonsbildung nach dem C M . ‘ , in ThZ 30. 1974. 207-211.
Further lit.: Erbetta I 29
3.2.2 French
3.2.3 German
Schneemelcher, Wilhelm. “Das so genannte Decretum Gelasianum.” Pages 30–33 in Neutestamentliche Apokryphen in deutscher Übersetzung, Bd. 1. Evangelien und Verwandtes. Edited by Edgar Hennecke and Wilhelm Schneemelcher. 5th German edition. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1989.
3.3 General Works
Gallagher and Mead 175-83 (Latin text from Souter 1954:191-94 and trans. from Metzger 1987:305-307, 178-82)
borrowings from the preface to the Tractatus in Matthaeum by bishop Chromatius of Aquileia (fourth/fifth cent.)
Sundburg thesis says should be “in our times”, meanign the post-apostolic period
Muratorian Fragment: Souter, Alexander. 1954. The Text and Canon of the New Testament, 2nd edn. London: Duckworth.
McDonald 2017: 2.274-304
says the older dating has been widley restored (acc. to Kaestli, Hill and Verheyden)
Rothschild says fourth cent and trying to look like 2nd
some scholars say more like an NT intro than a canon list
Several decades ago Campenhausen noted that the ‘literature on the Muratorianum long ago became quite unmanageable’.18 See the select bibliography in Markschies 2012: 117-18; for references to older literature, see Verheyden 2003: 488-9 nn. 2-3; for editions of the text, see Schnabel 2014: 232. The most important recent discussions of the date and provenance of the fragment include: Sundberg 1973; Ferguson 1982; Hahneman 1992; Henne 1993; Kaestli 1994; Hill 1995; Verheyden 2003; Armstrong 2008; Norelli 2013: 972-81; Schnabel 2014; Markschies 2015: 202-9; McDonald 2017: 2.274-304.
Armstrong, Jonathan J. 2008. ‘Victorinus of Pettau as the Author of the Canon Muratori’. Vigiliae Christianae 62: 1-34.
Ferguson, Everett. 1982. ‘Canon Muratori: Date and Provenance: in Studia Patristica 17/2, ed. E.A. Livingstone, pp. 677-83. Oxford: Pergamon.
Guignard, Christophe. 2015. ‘The Original Language of the Muratorian Fragment’. Journal of Theological Studies 66: 596-624.
Hahneman, Geoffrey Mark. 1992. The Muratorian Fragment and the Development of the Canon. Oxford Theological Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hahneman, Geoffrey Mark. 2002. ‘The Muratorian Fragment and the Origins of the New Testament Canon’, in The Canon Debate, eds Lee Martin McDonald and James A. Sanders, pp. 405-15. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson.
Harnack, Adolf. 1898. ‘Excerpts aus dem Muratorischen Fragment (saec. xi et xii)’. 1heologische Literaturzeitung 23: 131-4.
Harnack, Adolf. 1925. ‘Ober den Verfasser und den literarischen Charakter des Muratorischen Fragmentes’. Zeitschrift fiir die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 24: 1-16.
Henne, Philippe. 1990-1. ‘Le Canon de Muratori: Orthographe et datation’. Archivum Bobiense 12-13: 289-304.
Henne, Philippe.1993. ‘La datation du canon de Muratori’. Revue biblique 100: 54-75.
Hill, Charles E. 1995. ‘The Debate over the Muratorian Fragment and the Development of the Canon’. Westminster Theological Journal 57: 437-52.
Horbury, William.1994. ‘The Wisdom of Solomon in the Muratorian Fragment’. Journal of Theological Studies 45: 149-59.
Kaestli, J.-D.1994. ‘La place du Fragment de Muratori dans l’histoire du canon. Apropos de la these de Sundberg et Hahneman’. Cristianesimo nelle Storia 15: 609-34.
Katz, Peter. 1957. ‘The Johannine Epistles in the Muratorian Canon’. Journal of Theological Studies 8: 273-4.
Lemarie, Joseph. 1978. ‘Saint Chromace d’Aquilee, temoin du Canon de Muratori’. Revue detudes augustiniennes 24: 101-2.
Lietzmann, Hans. 1933. Das Muratorische Fragment und die Monarchianischen Prologe zu den Evangelien, 2nd edn. Bonn: A. Marcus and E. Weber.
Muratori, Ludovico Antonio. 1740. Antiquitates Italicae Medii /Evi, vol. 3. Milan: Ex Typographia Societatis Palatinae.
Rothschild, Clare K. (2022). The Muratorian Fragment: Text, Translation, Commentary. Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum 132. Mohr Siebeck.
Schnabel, Eckhard J. 2014. ‘The Muratorian Fragment: The State of Research’. Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 57: 231-64.
Sundberg, Albert C.1973. ‘Canon Muratori: A Fourth-Century List’. Harvard Theological Review 66: 1-41.
Tregelles, Samuel P. 1867. Canon Muratorianus: The Earliest Catalogue of the Books of the New Testament. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
https://archive.org/details/canonmuratorianu00treg/page/n24/mode/1up
Verheyden, Joseph. 2003. ‘The Canon Muratori: A Matter of Dispute: in The Biblical Canons, eds J.-M. Auwers and H.J. de Jonge, pp. 487-556. Leuven: Leuven University Press.
NICKLAS, Tobias, « Die Datierung des muratorischen Fragments: Einleitung zur Kontroverse », Zeitschrift für Neues Testament 26 (2023), p. 79.
ORTH, Joachim, « Das Muratorische Fragment: ein Dokument um 180 n. Chr. oder eine späte Fälschung? », Theologische Beiträge 54/3 (2023), p. 169-177.
ROTHSCHILD, Clare K. – THOMPSON, Jeremy C., « Honig gemischt mit Galle: neue Fragen zu Form, Datierung und problematischen Passagen im Muratorischen Fragment », Zeitschrift für Neues Testament 26 (2023), p. 81-92.
VERHEYDEN, Joseph, « Das Muratorische Fragment: eine Stimme von der anderen Seite », Zeitschrift für Neues Testament 26 (2023), p. 93-106.