Minuscule 72
New Testament manuscript | |
Text | Gospels |
---|---|
Date | 11th century |
Script | Greek |
Now at | British Library |
Size | 25.2 cm by 20 cm |
Type | Byzantine text-type |
Category | none |
Hand | elegant |
Note | Family Marginalia |
Minuscule 72 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering),
It is currently housed at the British Library (Harley MS 5647).[2]
Description
[edit]The codex contains complete text of the four Gospels on 268 leaves (size 25.2 cm by 20 cm). The text is written in one column per page, 22-24 lines per page[2] in an elegant minuscule letters.[3][4] The capital letters in red.[4]
The text is divided according to the κεφαλαια (chapters), whose numbers are given at the margin, τιτλοι (titles of chapters) at the top of the pages. There is also another division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections (Matthew 360, Mark 240 – 16:19; Luke 342, John 232), with references to the Eusebian Canons.[4]
It contains the Epistle to Carpianum, the tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, portraits of the four Evangelists, lectionary markings at the margin (for liturgical use), and subscriptions at the end of each Gospel, with numbers of στιχοι (in Mark).[3] It is elegantly written. It has scholia in Matthew and two scholia in Mark (16:19.20).[4]
It has various readings and personal notes in the margin of the codex written in Greek and Arabic.[3][4] The text of Matthew is surrounded by a catena (largely derived from the homilies of John Chrysostom).[3]
Text
[edit]The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland did not place it in any Category.[5] According to Hermann von Soden it is related to the Family
It does not contain the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11).[8]
History
[edit]The manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 11th century.[2] It was written in Syria or Palestina.[9]
According to Arabic notes on a margin, the manuscript was later in the property of a Presbyter David, the son of Micheal the Metropolitan of Bosra.[7] C. R. Gregory saw it in 1883.[4]
It was examined by Wettstein in 1731 and Griesbach.[4]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 50.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 50.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. Vol. I (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 204.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. Vol. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 145.
- ^ Aland, Kurt; Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.). Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 138. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Wisse, Frederik (1982). The Profile Method for the Classification and Evaluation of Manuscript Evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 54. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Kirsopp Lake, "Family
Π and the Codex Alexandrinus. The Text According to Mark", London 1936. - ^ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. Vol. II (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 365.
- ^ Harley 5647 at the British Library
Further reading
[edit]- A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808–12), II (1808), no. 5647.
- J. W. Burgon, The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to St. Mark (Oxford and London, 1871).
- Kirsopp Lake, "Family
Π and the Codex Alexandrinus. The Text According to Mark" (London 1936).
External links
[edit]- Harley 5647 at the British Library