Minuscule 138

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Minuscule 138
Name	Codex Vaticanus 757
Text	Gospels†
Date	11th century
Script	Greek
Now at	Vatican Library
Size	30 cm by 22.5 cm
Type	Byzantine text-type
Category	V
Hand	slovenly hand

Minuscule 138 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), A³⁰⁴ (Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment leaves. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century.^[2] The manuscript is lacunose.

Description

The codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 380 parchment leaves (size 30 cm by 22.5 cm),^[2] with a commentary, and minor lacunae.^[3] The text is written in one column per page, 37 lines per page.^[2]

The commentary on Mark is of Victor,^[4] mixed up with the text, both in slovenly hand.^[3]

It contains synaxaria, Menologion, and pictures. The tables of the κεφαλαια (tables of contents) were added by a later hand before each Gospel. At the end of each Gospel were added subscriptions with numbers of Verses.^[4] Mark 16:9-20 was marked by an obelus as a doubtful.

The text of Matthew 1:1-4:11 was supplied by a later hand.^[4]

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Aland placed it in Category V.^[5] According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents the textual family K^x in Luke 1. In Luke 10 and Luke 20 no profile was made.^[6]

History

The manuscript was examined by Birch (about 1782), Scholz, and Burgon. C. R. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.^[4]

It is currently housed at the Vatican Library (Vat. gr. 757), at Rome.^[2]

See also

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism

References

1. ^ Gregory, Caspar René (1908). Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 53. http://www.archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n63/mode/2up. 
2. ^ ^{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. 55.
3. ^ ^{a b} Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose; Edward Miller (1894). A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. 1. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 213. 
4. ^ ^{a b c d} Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: Hinrichs. p. 157. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n169/mode/2up. 
5. ^ 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. 
6. ^ 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. 55. ISBN 0-8028-1918-4. 

Further reading

• Gregory, Caspar René (1900). Textkritik des Neuen Testaments. 1. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. p. 157. http://www.archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n169/mode/2up. 

External links

• Minuscule 138 at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism