The Revelation To John
The title of the book in the earliest manuscripts (a C) is simply VApoka,luyij VIwa,nnou (&a,nou a). In later witnesses this brief title is modified in a great variety of expansions (sixty different wordings of the title are cited by Hoskier 1). What is probably the longest and most fulsome title is that of a manuscript at Mount Athos (no. 1775, copied A.D. 1847): ~H avpoka,luyij tou/ panendo,xou euvaggelistou/( evpisthqi,ou fi,lou( parqe,nou( hvgaphme,nou tw|/ Cristw|/( VIwa,nnou tou/ qeolo,gou( ui`ou/ Salw,mhj kai. Zebedai,ou( qetou/ de. ui`ou/ th/j qeoto,kou Mari,aj( kai. ui`ou/ bronth/j (“The Revelation of the all-glorious Evangelist, bosom-friend [of Jesus], virgin, beloved to Christ, John the theologian, son of Salome and Zebedee, but adopted son of Mary the Mother of God, and Son of Thunder”).
1 H. C. Hoskier, Concerning the Text of the Apocalypse; Collations of all Existing Greek Documents …, II (London, 1929), pp. 25—27.