L/V 10+ Tip of the Day #260 Link NA28 Apparatus to Manuscripts of the Greek New Testament

MJ. Smith

Another tip of the day (TOTD) series for Logos/Verbum 10. They will be short and often drawn from forum posts. Feel free to ask questions and/or suggest forum posts you'd like to see included. Adding comments about the behavior on mobile and web apps would be appreciated by your fellow forumites. A search for "L/V 10+ Tip of the Day site:community.logos.com" on Google should bring the tips up as should this Reading List within the application.

This tip is inspired by the forum post: Link NA28 Apparatus to Manuscripts of the Greek New Testament - Logos Forums

Linking to Manuscripts of the Greek New Testament is possible from the NA28 apparatus, given proper licensing. To confirm, with the NA28 apparatus open, click the Factbook Icon (book with a check mark) in the resource window. If you have the proper licensing, thin blue underlines will appear under manuscript sigla and also words that have been lemmatized.

Hover a manuscript sigla (below I hovered "565"), and you should see something like:

If you right-click the sigla, you should see a context menu sort of like this. (Excuse the two "GNTMSS" in this image, on my installation one is English and one is German. You'll probably only have one.)

On the left half of the menu, make sure "Greek New Testament Manuscript..." is selected. Then click the "GNTMSS" on the right side under "Look up". This should open the Manuscripts of the Greek New Testament resource to the selected manuscript.

For manuscripts with links to images at the NTVMR, you'll need to scroll (sorry, no way to avoid that at present) down the list to find a link to the manuscript page. Alternately, Control+F and begin to type the reference to do a 'find' for the page you're looking for. From there, if you have an account with the NTVMR that allows it, you should be able to see manuscript images.

You should be able to do this with the UBS 4 and 5 apparatuses, NA27 and 28 apparatuses, Tischendorf, Tregelles, Tyndale House GNT, Comfort, NET Bible notes (first edition), Alford, and maybe a few others I'm forgetting. Oh, it should also work for LXX apparatuses (including most Göttingen volumes), though there are not nearly as many image links for LXX manuscripts (basically just Vaticanus and Sinaiticus IIRC).

Hope it helps.

 - Rick