- Minuscule 11
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New Testament manuscripts
papyri • uncials • minuscules • lectionariesMinuscule 11 Text Gospels Date 14th century Script Greek Now at National Library of France Size 16.2 cm by 9.3 cm Type Byzantine text-type Category V Hand neatly written Minuscule 11 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 297 (Soden).[1] It is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament in two small volumes. The first volume has 230 leaves, the second volume has 274 leaves parchment (16.2 cm by 9.3 cm). Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 14th century.[2]
Contents
Description
The codex contains the complete text of the four Gospels. The text is written in one column per page, 16 lines per page, in neat letters.[2]
It contains pictures, the Eusebian Canon tables are placed before each Gospel, numbers of the κεφαλαια (chapters) at the margin, the τιτλοι (titles) at the top of the pages, the Ammonian Sections (in Mark 233, the last in 16:7), with a references to the Eusebian Canons, and portraits of the Evangelists.[3]
Text
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type, but there are some alexandrian readings.[4] Kurt Aland placed it in Category V.[5]
According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family Πb in Luke 1, and Kx in Luke 10 and Luke 20.[6]
History
It was in private hands, and belonged to the Cardinal Charles Maurice Tellier († 1641), in 1671 to archbishop of Rheims, like codices 10, 13.[7] It was in collection of Kuster (as Paris 4). The manuscript was examined by Scholz. It was examined and described by Paulin Martin.[8] C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1885.[3]
The codex now is located at the National Library of France (Gr. 121.122) at Paris.[2]
See also
References
- ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 48. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n59/mode/2up.
- ^ a b c K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 47.
- ^ a b Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung. p. 130. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n143/mode/2up.
- ^ Tischendorf, Novum Testamentum Graece. Editio Septima, Lipsiae 1859, p. CXCV.
- ^ Aland, Kurt; Barbara Aland; Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 138. ISBN 978-0-8028-4098-1.
- ^ 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. 53. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4.
- ^ Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. 1 (4 ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 192.
- ^ Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, Description technique des manuscrits grecs, relatif au Nouveau Testament, conservé dans les bibliothèques des Paris (Paris 1883), p. 24
Further readinig
- Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung. p. 130. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n143/mode/2up.
Categories:- Greek New Testament minuscules
- 14th-century biblical manuscripts
- Bibliothèque nationale de France collections
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